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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

Length measures objects on screen

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Length is a GNOME application for measuring distances on screen to help you design and inspect layouts and graphics.

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moserial – serial terminal for GNOME desktop

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

moserial is a clean, friendly GTK-based serial terminal for the gnome desktop. It’s written in the Vala language.

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SerialTool – Serial-Port/TCP/UDP debugging tool

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SerialTool is a serial/network debugging tool. It supports serial debugging assistant, terminal, waveform display and file transfer.

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Fonts

Deepin Font Manager

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Deepin Font Manager is a tool to install and uninstall font easily, supports batch installation, font information recognition, etc

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Fonts

fnt – apt for fonts

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fnt is a tool to download and install fonts. It helps you to download vector fonts from Debian side, and Google Web Fonts.

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SerialTest – test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SerialTest is a cross-platform test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

vmstat – reports virtual memory statistics

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and cpu activity.

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minicom – serial communication program

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulation program modeled after the popular MS-DOS program Telix.

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Password manager

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager that uses state of the art cryptography and minimalist design principles.

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Password manager

pa is a simple password manager

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pa is a simple password manager. Encryption support is provided via age. It’s written in portable posix shell.

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Monitoring

lstr – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstr is a fast, minimalist directory tree viewer. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode.

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Monitoring

lstree – ls in tree form

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstree is a wrapper script around ls to display a nice tree structure.

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Selection of utilities

Encoding Explorer transforms characters into binary

June 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Encoding Explorer is a tool for learning character encoding written in Python.

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Files

Splitcat – split and merge files

June 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Splitcat is a simple file splitting and merging application with predefined presets for popular apps.

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PDF

20 Useful Free and Open Source PDF Tools

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on useful PDF tools which can help you create PDFs as well as small utilities/libraries that help you work with PDF.

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Network Security

Collision checks hashes for your files

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Collision comes with a simple and clean UI to generate, compare and verify MD5, SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA-1, Blake3, CRC32 and Adler32 hashes.

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D-Spy – explore the D-Bus

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

D-Spy is a simple tool to explore D-Bus connections.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: WSelector – wallpaper selector manager

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

WSelector is a modern GTK4/Adwaita application for browsing, downloading, and setting wallpapers. It’s written in Python.

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Internet Radio

PyQSO – contact logging tool for amateur radio operators

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

The graphical user interface has been developed using the GTK+ library through the PyGObject bindings.

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Schemes – create syntax highlighting schemes

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Schemes allow you to create syntax highlighting style-schemes for GtkSourceView-based applications such as Builder or Text Editor.

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