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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

mtr-gtk – graphical network route diagnostics

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

mtr-gtk provides a graphical interface for continuous route tracing, hop-level packet-loss measurements and network latency statistics.

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luha – simple file checksum tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

luha is a simple file checksum command-line interface tool.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

lunas – syncing cli tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lunas is a syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely.

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Documents

lv – directory listing and counting tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iv is a directory listing and counting tool written in C++.

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Selection of utilities

Share Preview – test social media cards locally

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Share Preview lets you review and debug websites metadata tags for social media share.

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Password Managers

Identities – GNOME client for pass password stores

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Identities is a GNOME client for pass password stores, providing multiple stores, custom entry attributes and one-time authentication codes.

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Notes

Notesnook – private and encrypted note-taking application

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Notesnook protects notes with end-to-end encryption and offers notebooks, tags, encrypted sync, private vaults, backups and sharing.

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Selection of utilities

Stasis – modern Wayland idle manager

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Stasis is a modern Wayland idle manager that knows when to step back. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Clipboard

Qlipmon – clipboard history manager with rofi integration

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Qlipmon manages X11 clipboard history with a native rofi plugin, D-Bus notifications, optional persistent storage and custom actions.

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Software

Oracle – AUR Helper Wrapper

October 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Oracle is a modern graphical user interface wrapper for AUR helpers and Pacman.

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Selection of utilities

Dinfo – detailed information about a directory

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Dinfo (Directory Info) is a C# tool that provides detailed information about a directory.

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Desktop

Mending Wall – fixes common problems when using more than one desktop environment

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI, Utilities

Mending Wall is a Linux application to fix issues when hopping between multiple desktop environments.

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SSD

colordf – colored and configurable version of df

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordf is a colored and configurable version of df, forked from cdf.

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ldf – report filesystem space info of devices

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ldf reports filesystem space info of devices and RAM/swap usage.

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SSD

rust-df – simple df like utility in Rust

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rust-df (rdf) is a very simple tool that displays output like the df utility, but it’s written in the Rust language.

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di – disk information tool

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

di is a disk information utility, displaying everything (and more) that your df command does.

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Monitor System

dgop – system monitoring tool with CLI and REST API

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

dgop monitors Linux processes, CPU, GPU, disks and networks using a terminal interface, CLI commands, JSON output and a REST API.

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Compression

ouch – terminal compression and archive management utility

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ouch simplifies terminal archiving with automatic format detection, compression, extraction, archive listings and accessibility features.

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QR Tools

QR ScanGen – QR code scanner and generator

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QR ScanGen reads and creates QR codes in a simple desktop window, with clipboard integration, image import and optional URL/Wi-Fi actions.

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Whippy Term – modern GUI based terminal program

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Whippy Term is a modern terminal program. It has been designed to have a modern UI and to run on modern OS’s including Linux.

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