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Parm – cross-platform binary installer

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Parm is a cross-platform binary installer with a package manager-esque workflow. Install any program from GitHub via their REST API.

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Selection of utilities

tray-tui – system tray implementation

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

tray-tui brings system tray functionality to the terminal, displaying tray menus as interactive trees.

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Laptop

kbd-backlight – intelligent keyboard backlight daemon

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

kbd-backlight is an intelligent keyboard backlight daemon for Linux laptops with automatic brightness control

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Selection of utilities

AliaCan – shell alias manager

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

AliaCan is billed as a powerful, user-friendly shell alias manager for Linux with automatic backups, cross-shell support, and more.

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OpenTrace – GUI wrapper for NextTrace

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OpenTrace is a cross-platform GUI wrapper for NextTrace, a visual routing tool that aims to be lightweight.

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Terminal Multiplexer

TERM39 – modern terminal multiplexer

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

TERM39 is a modern terminal multiplexer with classic MS-DOS aesthetic, built with Rust.

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Selection of utilities

NextTrace – visual route tracking CLI tool

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

NextTrace is a visual routing tool that aims to be lightweight. It’s developed using Golang.

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Selection of utilities

Fastrace – traceroute utility

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fastrace is a fast traceroute utility designed for network diagnostics and performance analysis.

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process

lash – symlink manager for dotfiles

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Lash is a command-line application that is intended to replace Stow. It is not intended to be a drop-in replacement but it does aim to replace most of the implemented functionality of Stow.

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process

fling – file/directory symlinker

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fling computes and creates/removes the minimal amount of symlinks needed in a directory to refer to files and directories in another directory, similar to Stow.

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stown – manage file system object mapping via symlinks

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stown manages file system object mapping via symlinks. It was inspired by Stow, which was found very useful but too unwieldy.

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process

Dploy – tool for creating symbolic links

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dploy is a tool for creating symbolic links similarly to Stow. It is provided as a CLI tool and Python 3.6.2+ module.

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process

XStow – replacement for Stow

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

XStow is a replacement of Stow. It supports all features of Stow with some extensions.

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stow-cm – config manager like stow

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stow-cm is a config manager like stow written in the Rust programming language.

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Stow – symlink farm manager

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem

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Terminal Multiplexer

pw3270 – TN3270 emulator

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

pw3270 is a modern, GTK-based, completely free TN3270 emulator.

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powersupply – display power status of phones

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

powersupply is a graphical power_supply status tool for Linux mobile platforms.

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boxunbox – simple symlinker inspired by stow

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boxunbox is a simple symlinker inspired by stow with more control over where each individual folder gets linked.

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sh – shell parser, formatter, and interpreter

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sh is a shell parser, formatter, and interpreter. It supports POSIX Shell, Bash, and mksh. It requires Go 1.24 or later.

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Laptop

RogPerfTuner – utility to manage Asus ROG laptop performance and RGB lighting

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

RogPerfTuner is here to simplify your life and help you enjoy gaming on your Asus ROG laptop once and for all.

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