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Category: Utilities

Password Managers

keydex is a terminal based password manager for KeePass databases

March 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

keydex is a command line utility to manage KeePass databases. It comes with subcommands for managing the entries.

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Font Tools

Font Viewer – view and install fonts

March 20, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Font Viewer is software that lets you view and install fonts on a Linux system and install fonts from Google Fonts.

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Font Tools

cfonts – command line tool for sexy ANSI fonts in the console

March 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cfonts is a little command line tool for sexy ANSI fonts in the console.

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Password Managers

kpxhs – Keepass database interactive TUI viewer

March 19, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

kpxhs is a Keepass database interactive TUI viewer based on keepassxc-cli.

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Password Managers

cpass – console UI for pass

March 18, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

cpass is an urwid based terminal user interface (TUI) for the standard unix password manager, pass.

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Tools that help you

qman is a modern man page viewer

March 18, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

qman is a modern, full-featured manual page viewer featuring hyperlinks, web browser like navigation, a table of contents for each page, and more.

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tail

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to the command-line tail utility.

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Documents

zchunk – compressed file format

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zchunk is a file format designed for highly efficient deltas while maintaining good compression.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Zoom

March 14, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

On a Mac, the Zoom settings for accessibility makes everything on the screen larger or to enlarge just the area where the pointer is located.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Text Compare – compare old and new text

March 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Text Compare is a simple text comparison app.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Snippet Tools

March 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

A snippet tool is utility software that can boost your productivity. They are especially useful to save complex commands

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System administration

KDE Migrant – migrate existing KDE/Plasma/apps configuration to a new computer

March 12, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

KDE Migrant allows you to migrate your existing KDE configuration to a new computer. Good when changing computers or cloning one user configuration for other users.

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Clipboard

Netboard – share your clipboard between different devices

March 12, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Netboard is a client/server application that allows to share your clipboard between different devices.

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Clipboard

clipse – TUI-based clipboard manager

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

clipse is a configurable, TUI-based clipboard manager application written in Go with minimal dependency.

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Password Managers

LPTK – stateless password manager

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

LPTK is a complete GTK implementation of LessPass stateless password manager.

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3D Printer

9 Useful Free and Open Source Linux 3D Printer Tools

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Many desktop 3D printers use a numerically controlled programming language made up of a series of commands called G-Code.

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Clipboard

superclipboard – manage your clipboard history

March 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

superclipboard is a tool to manage your clipboard history with a beautiful and simple interface.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Ignition – manage startup apps and scripts

March 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Ignition provides a simple UI to add, remove, and modify startup entries on your computer.

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Home Automation

12 Best Free and Open Source Solutions for Home Automation

March 10, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Home automation software lets you control and monitor common home and office appliances using a computer.

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Selection of utilities

Ucto – advanced rule-based unicode-aware tokenizer

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ucto tokenizes text files: it separates words from punctuation, and splits sentences. It offers several other basic preprocessing steps.

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