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Category: Utilities

Compositing Window Managers

14 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Wayland Compositors

January 14, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on stacking Wayland compositors. Only free and open source software is included in this article.

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Shredding paper

File Shredder – file deletion software

January 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

File Shredder is a file deletion program designed to permanently remove sensitive files from your computer.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: Wget

January 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to Wget, a non-interactive network downloader.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: curl

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to curl, a utility for transferring data from or to a server, supporting many protocols.

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Files

vim-fern – asynchronous tree viewer

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

vim-fern is a general purpose asynchronous tree viewer written in VimL.

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Documents

lsv – Vlang implementation of ls

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsv is a modern alternative to ls in the spirit of exa, eza, lsd, pls, natls, ls-go and others.

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Batch Renamers

Inviska Rename – batch rename utility

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Inviska Rename is a batch file rename utility that allows you to give meaningful names to groups of files.

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Image of Files

StygianSift – terminal file explorer

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

StygianSift will navigate you through the rivers of data and forests of directories with unparalleled ease.

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File Managers

kupo – terminal file browser

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

kupo is a terminal file browser written in Python.

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Files

nvim-tree – file explorer for Neovim

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer / filesystem tree view plugin for Neovim. It’s written in Lua.

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