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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

prox – process manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

prox is a modern, powerful process manager with a beautiful Terminal User Interface (TUI). Inspired by pm2, built with Go and Bubbletea.

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Tools that help you

Outfieldr – TLDR client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Outfieldr is a TLDR client written in Zig. TLDR offers an alternative to man pages.

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Stacking Window Managers

24 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Window Managers

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

Stacking window managers (also known as floating window managers) draw all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap.

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Diff Tools

oyo – step-through diff viewer

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

oyo extends traditional diffs with an optional step-through mode.

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Folder navigation

Jump – quick and fuzzy directory jumper

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jump tracks the directories you visit and lets you jump to the right one with just a few fuzzy-typed characters.

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Application Launchers

MRunner – keyboard-first application runner

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MRunner is a fast, keyboard-driven application runner designed for Linux users who prefer speed, simplicity, and minimalism.

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Images of shells by the sea

gsh – POSIX-compatible, Generative Shell

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

gsh is a modern, POSIX-compatible, generative shell that’s in an early stage of development.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

SoS – data collection tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

SoS is an extensible, portable, support data collection tool primarily aimed at Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

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

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Text Editor

16 Best Free and Open Source Vim-Like Text Editors

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Text editors remain a controversial area. Here are our recommended Vim-like text editors. They are all released under an open source license.

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Find Duplicates

mmry – local-first memory system for humans and AI agents

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

mmry is a local-first memory system. Store any text and find it again with multiple search strategies, pipe it anywhere with JSON.

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Clipboard

nocb – nearly optimal clipboard manager

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nocb describes itself as a nearly optimal clipboard manager – fast, compressed, hash-based storage.

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Backup software

mackup – keeps application settings in sync

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mackup is a tool for backup and keeping your application settings in sync.

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Application Launchers

SimplyToast – startup and background process manager

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SimplyToast is a minimal, fast, and visually clean tool designed to give you full control over startup applications, background processes, and more.

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Wallpaper Setter

gSlapper – wallpaper utility

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gSlapper is a wallpaper utility for Wayland that combines the best of swww and mpvpaper by allowing both static and video wallpapers.

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Selection of utilities

orphanhunter – identify and remove orphaned packages

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

OrphanHunter is a lightweight utility for Arch Linux designed to identify and remove orphaned packages and files that clutter your system

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Command Schedulers

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cron

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to cron, a daemon to execute scheduled commands.

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Monitoring

Watchman – file watching service

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Watchman watches files and record when they change. It can also trigger actions (such as rebuilding assets) when matching files change.

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Selection of utilities

fileformat – tool for recognizing file formats

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fileformat is a tool for detecting and identifying file formats.

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Text Editor

10 Best Free and Open Source Neovim GUIs

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Neovim’s RPC support lets developers create new front-ends (GUIs) for Neovim that are outside of the terminal. We make our recommendations.

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