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cdu – du like command

November 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cdu (Colour du) is a du like command but displays an attractive histogram with optional colours.

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Laptop

battery-wallpaper – script to set wallpaper according to battery percentage

November 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

battery-wallpaper is a bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper showing charging animation.

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SSD

diskonaut – TUI disk space navigator

November 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

diskonaut is a TUI-based terminal disk space navigator. It’s written in Rust.

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Google Translate Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Translate

November 4, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Translate is a translation app. It functions as a service for translating text sentences or speech between several languages.

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Documentation

Clapgrep – app to search through all your files

November 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Clapgrep is a GUI utility which lets you search through your files.

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Laptop

Touchégg – Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer

November 2, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Touchégg is a program that runs in the background and transform the gestures on your touchpad/touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.

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XClicker – GUI autoclicker for x11 desktops

October 29, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

XClicker is an easy to use, feature-rich, blazing fast autoclicker for Linux desktops using x11.

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Selection of utilities

Picker – randomly pick something to do

October 14, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Picker is a simple program that can pick something for you from a list of things.

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Collector – drag and drop to the next level

October 11, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

Collector is software that lets you drag multiple files and folders on to a Collection window. It’s an alternative to Dropover for macOS.

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Clipboard

Greenclip – recycle your clipboard selections

October 10, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Recycle your clipboard selections with Greenclip and don’t waste your time anymore to reselect things over and over.

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Desktop Environments

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Docks

October 9, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 11 docks that genuinely add to the desktop experience.

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Clipboard

cliphist – clipboard history manager for Wayland

October 4, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

cliphist is a clipboard history “manager” for Wayland. It’s written in Go.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

fastdiract – quick shell navigation and command execution

September 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fastdiract (fastdir + fastaction) is a pair of shell tools based on key-value storage for quick shell navigation and command execution.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

menucd – directory browser and changer

September 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

menucd is a directory browser and changer for the command line.

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Folder navigation

slingshot – quickly navigate across folders

September 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

slingshot is a lightweight tool to browse files in the terminal.

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Folder navigation

fz – adds fuzzy search to tab completion of z

September 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fz is a shell plugin that seamlessly adds fuzzy search to tab completion of z, and lets you easily to jump around.

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Documentation

rm-trash – replacement for rm

September 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The rm-trash utility puts the files you delete in a shell safely into the Trash (Recycle bin).

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

pm – switch between projects

September 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pm offers an easy way to switch to your projects on Shell. Add your projects to pm and switch between them with a command.

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Documentation

zoxide – smarter cd command

September 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zoxide is a smarter cd command, inspired by z and autojump. It’s written in Rust and published under the MIT license.

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Documentation

trashbhuwan – CLI trashing utility

September 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trashbhuwan is a simple CLI application for trashing and restoring files.

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