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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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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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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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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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Diff Tools

Oyo – terminal code review tool

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Oyo is a terminal code review tool with diff views, persistent review comments, Git and Jujutsu targets, forge sync, search and previews.

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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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