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Category: Utilities

Command Schedulers

Cronkit – make cron jobs human-readable

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Cronkit is a command-line tool that makes cron jobs human-readable, auditable, and visual.

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Selection of utilities

zeP – package and version manager for Zig

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

zeP is a fast, lightweight package manager and Zig version manager designed with simplicity, and comfort for the end-user

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Linux at Home - RSI

Ianny – prevent repetitive strain injuries

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Ianny is a simple, lightweight, easy to use, and effective Linux Wayland desktop utility that helps with preventing repetitive strain injuries

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Selection of utilities

X-CMD – command-line toolkit

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

X-CMD (pronounced as “X Command”) is a compact yet powerful command-line toolkit that offers over 100+ functional modules

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System Cleaning

Moonbit – terminal-based system cleaner

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Moonbit cleans Linux caches, temporary files and unused Docker data, with terminal controls, dry-run previews and scheduled maintenance.

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Software

yayfzf – AUR package finder

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

yayfzf is an AUR package fzf finder to search, install, remove, and manage packages using yay.

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process

DotState – dotfile manager

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

DotState is a terminal-based tool that helps you manage your dotfiles effortlessly.

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Files

BCMR – Better Copy Move Remove

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BCMR is a command-line tool written in Rust that lets you elegantly copy, move, and remove files.

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Selection of utilities

Waytermirror – real-time Wayland screen mirroring to a terminal

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Waytermirror offers real-time Wayland screen mirroring to a terminal using Unicode braille characters, half‑blocks, ASCII

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Wallpaper Setter

hpaper – advanced wallpaper management for Wayland

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

hpaper is a blazingly fast Go-based wallpaper management daemon for Wayland compositors

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Images of shells by the sea

ReShell – modern shell

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

The ReShell project aims to provide a complete alternative to popular Linux shells such as the sh family (sh, bash, zsh, ksh, …)

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mmtui – TUI disk mount manager

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mmtui is a TUI disk mount manager for TUI file managers for Linux.

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Tools that help you

Mansnip – navigate through man pages

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mansnip is a command-line tool that makes Linux manual pages (manpages) easier to search and navigate by extracting relevant snippets.

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btdu – sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

btdu is a sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs. It’s written in the D language.

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Image of Files

TBDel – manage files for deletion

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TBDel is a simple command-line tool for managing a list of files and directories marked for deletion.

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Monitor System

bb – process viewer

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

bb is a lightweight Rust process viewer with process-tree navigation, searching, sorting, highlighting and direct process signalling.

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Documents

xls – ls utility

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xls is a utility program for listing files.

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Clipboard

Waypin – sleek clipboard viewer

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Waypin is a sleek clipboard viewer for Wayland/X11 with GTK3.

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Files

iris – config-driven file organizer

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iris helps you sort and organize your messy folders automatically using defined rules. It’s written in Rust.

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Find Duplicates

trxsh – trash manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trxsh is a simple and efficient command-line trash manager written in Go.

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