Notepad is a simple text editor; it creates and edits plain text documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Category: Utilities
lsix – ls for images
lsix is like the ls command but for images.The tool shows thumbnails in a terminal using sixel graphics. It’s written in Bash.
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Excellent Utilities: navi – interactive cheatsheet tool
navi lets you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands.
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jdFlatpakSnapshot – create and restore application data snapshots
jdFlatpakSnapshot creates and restores snapshots of Flatpak application data, with compression, import and export, and a desktop interface.
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Obfuscate – utility to censor private information
Obfuscate is a simple GTK-based utility that’s designed to censor private information.
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Heatseeker – general-purpose fuzzy selector
Heatseeker is a rewrite of selecta, a general-purpose fuzzy selector.
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SeaGOAT – semantic-code search engine
SeaGOAT is a local search tool that leverages vector embeddings to enable you to search your codebase semantically.
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Damask – automatically set wallpaper images
Damask rotates GNOME wallpapers from Bing, NASA, Wallhaven, Google Earth View and Microsoft Spotlight, with configurable scheduling.
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Gladys Assistant – privacy-focused smart home platform
Gladys Assistant provides local smart home control, Matter and Zigbee integrations, custom dashboards, energy tracking and automation scenes.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple System Information
Apple System information provides a system report containing detailed information about a Mac. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Essential System Tools: HyFetch – neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags
HyFetch is a fork of neofetch that displays distro ASCII art in LGBTQ+ pride colours. It’s written in Python.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Sticky Notes
Microsoft Sticky Notes is a utility to create notes, type, ink or add a picture, add text formatting, and stick them to the desktop.
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vimv – batch rename files using Vim
vimv edits batches of filenames in Vim or another text editor, with Git-aware moves, file filtering and support for cyclic renames.
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gucharmap – character map
GNOME Character Map (gucharmap) is a Unicode character map. This software allows characters to be displayed by unicode block or script type.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Character Map
Character Map is a utility to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard input is used to enter those characters.
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Characters – simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters
Characters is a simple utility to find and insert unusual characters. It allows users to quickly find the character sought.
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KCharSelect – character map tool
KCharSelect is a tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them in different format.
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Charmap – powerful character map
Charmap is a powerful character map. It works on Unix-like operating systems with the GNUstep installed.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Narrator
Narrator is a screen reader that’s included with every copy of Microsoft Windows. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Mouse actions – execute commands from mouse events
Mouse actions allows users to execute some commands from mouse events such as clicks / wheel on the side / corners of the screen, or drawing shapes.
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