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Category: Utilities

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pacbro – package browser for Arch

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

pacbro is a terminal based package browser for Arch Linux with extensive filtering capabilities.

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Photo collection

PicPlanner – plan your next photo locations

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

PicPlanner calculates the position of the sun, moon, and milky way to plan the perfect time to take a picture.

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Software

Paru – feature packed AUR helper

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Paru is a standard Pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction.

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Software

pacseek – search and install Arch Linux packages

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

pacseek is terminal user interface software which allows you to browse and search through the Arch Linux package databases as well as the AUR/

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Software

buildaur – AUR helper with asp support

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

The AUR is an software repository for Arch Linux users and their self created or packaged software which is not in an official repository.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: hexdump

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.

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Selection of utilities

Epicenter – ecosystem of open-source, local-first apps

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

The eventual goal is to store all of your data—notes, transcripts, chat histories—in a single folder of plain text and SQLite.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to dig. This is a DNS lookup utility.

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Diff Tools

objdiff – object file diffing for decompilation projects

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

objdiff compares object files for decompilation projects with automatic rebuilds, architecture support, symbol analysis and progress views.

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Archive Manager

Simple Archiver – alternative to tar

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Simple Archiver is an alternative to tar. Despite its name, this open source tool has a fairly wide range of features.

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Software

Yay – AUR helper

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Yay (Yet Another Yogurt) is an Arch User Repository (AUR) helper tool.

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Embellish – install nerd fonts

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Embellish is a GTK4 font manager for browsing, previewing, installing and removing Nerd Fonts, with custom fonts and an icon browser.

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Selection of utilities

Aurea – Flatpak metainfo banner previewer

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Aurea is a simple preview banner made to read metainfo files from Flatpak apps and represent them as they would on Flathub.

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Software

Octopi – powerful Pacman Qt frontend

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Octopi consists of a package browser, sudo helper, notifier, cache cleaner and repository editor.

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WallpaperDownloader

chwp – change desktop wallpaper from the command line

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chwp changes desktop backgrounds from the command line using image URLs, search keywords, local paths and multi-monitor spanning.

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Password Managers

Key Rack – view and edit GNOME application secrets

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Key Rack manages application secrets in desktop keyrings, letting users search, create and edit stored passwords, tokens and other records.

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Software

cylon – Arch Linux maintenance program

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI, Utilities

cylon is a TUI (terminal user interface) which provides updates and maintains an Arch based Linux distribution.

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Utility

socktop – terminal-based remote system monitor

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI, Utilities

socktop is a remote system monitor with a rich TUI, inspired by top/btop, talking to a lightweight agent over WebSockets.

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Software

Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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Software

aurto – Arch Linux AUR tool

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurto is an Arch Linux AUR tool for managing an auto-updating local ‘aurto’ package repository using aurutils.

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