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Category: Utilities

Annotation tool

wayscriber – screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

wayscriber is a ZoomIt-like screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors, written in Rust.

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Wallpaper Setter

randwall – randomly changes the desktop wallpaper

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

randwall downloads random Wallhaven wallpapers at chosen intervals, with category filters, search keywords and a configurable image cache.

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Selection of utilities

ReflectorTK – simple GUI for reflector

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ReflectorTK provides a graphical interface for reflector, helping Arch Linux users configure, preview and save Pacman mirrorlists.

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Images of shells by the sea

brush – POSIX- and bash compatible shell

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) is a POSIX- and bash-compatible shell, implemented in Rust. It’s built and tested on Linux, macOS, and WSL.

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Foreign Languages

Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Translate

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Ubuntu Touch, Utilities

Translate for Ubuntu Touch is an app that offers good translations with more privacy than with Google Translate.

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Selection of utilities

Spruce – graphical application cache cleaner

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Spruce scans application caches and trash, previews selected removals, and displays disk usage through a simple GTK desktop interface.

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CPU

zeptofetch – ultra-minimal system information tool

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zeptofetch delivers system information in under 2ms* with a 28KB binary*. No scripts, no bloat, just pure C doing exactly what you need.

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Monitor System

Lyvoxa Stellar – Linux system monitor

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Built in Rust, it aims to offer an intuitive Terminal User Interface (TUI) with advanced features for modern system administration.

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Selection of utilities

shiny-mirrors – find the best mirrors for Arch-based distros

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

shiny-mirrors finds and ranks pacman mirrors for Arch and Manjaro, with filtering, benchmarking, status checks and automation.

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Software

paclog – Pacman log parser

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

paclog is a Pacman log parser written in the Rust language.

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Selection of utilities

reflector-cacheserver – retrieve up-to-date Arch Linux mirror data

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

reflector-cacheserver retrieves, filters and ranks Arch Linux mirrors while retaining Pacman CacheServer entries in generated mirrorlists.

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Essential System Utils

process-map – visualize the virtual memory of a process

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

process-map displays a Linux process’s virtual address space, symbols and thread instruction pointers in a navigable graphical memory map.

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Selection of utilities

rate-mirrors – client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rate-mirrors is a tool, which tests mirror speed for: Arch Linux, ArcoLinux, Artix, BlackArch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Manjaro, and others.

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Monitoring

Open Alert Viewer – fetch and display server alerts

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Open Alert Viewer displays server and network alerts from servers running Prometheus, Nagios, Icinga or Zabbix.

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Essential System Utils

mstat – measure memory usage of a program over time

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mstat tracks memory use across a Linux process tree using cgroups, with configurable sampling, TSV output and support for cgroups v1 and v2.

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Selection of utilities

mirro-rs – mirrorlist manager for Arch Linux systems

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mirro-rs provides a TUI to help you better visualise managing your mirrorlist.

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Selection of utilities

process-mem – display memory used by processes

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

process-mem reports memory used by processes matched by name or regular expression, with user filtering, shared-memory details and sorting.

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Clipboard

Clipvault – clipboard history manager for Wayland

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Clipvault is a clipboard history manager for Wayland, inspired by cliphist. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Selection of utilities

alram – alarm for RAM

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

alram monitors available Linux RAM, displays low-memory notifications and can terminate selected processes using a configurable threshold.

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Selection of utilities

GhostMirror – mirror analyzer for Arch Linux

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

GhostMirror checks Arch Linux mirrors for freshness, speed and errors, builds custom mirrorlists, and can automate checks with systemd.

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