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Category: Utilities

Font Tools

HarfBuzz – text shaping library

March 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine.It solves the problem of selecting and positioning glyphs from a font given a Unicode string.

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Task Manager

21 Best Free and Open Source Linux Task Managers

February 17, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A task manager is software which enables users to compile a list of tasks to be completed. This list is also known as a to-do list or things-to-do.

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Compositing Window Managers

13 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors

February 9, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.

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Think outside the box

explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) which parses man pages, extracts options and explains a given command-line by matching each argument to the relevant help text in the man page.

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Tiling Window Managers

9 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Window Managers

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

There are a few different types of window managers. This article recommends the best tiling window managers.

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Dynamic Window Managers

7 Best Free and Open Source Dynamic Window Managers

February 1, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

A dynamic window manager is a tiling window manager where windows are tiled based on preset layouts between which the user can switch.

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Application Launchers

appImageHelper – create, delete, control and organize shortcuts to AppImage

January 30, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

appImageHelper is software for creating, deleting, controlling and organizing shortcuts to AppImage.

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Application Launchers

appimaged – AppImage daemon

January 30, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

appimaged is an experimental implementation of the optional AppImage daemon, appimaged, in Go.

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Application Launchers

AIDM – create desktop shortcuts to AppImage applications

January 30, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

AppImage Desktop Maker (AIDM) is simple software that creates desktop shortcuts to .AppImage applications.

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Best Free and Open Source HTML Editors

7 Best Free and Open Source HTML Editors

January 29, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

An HTML editor is computer software for creating web pages.

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