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Category: Utilities

Find Duplicates

FSlint – duplicate file finder

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of unwanted extraneous files on a computer file system.

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Find Duplicates

rdfind – redundant data find

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files. It is useful for compressing backup directories or just finding duplicate files.

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Wallpaper Setter

Superpaper – advanced multi monitor wallpaper manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Superpaper manages wallpapers across multiple monitors with bezel, perspective and pixel-density correction, slideshows and custom scripts.

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Wallpaper Setter

Komorebi – animated wallpaper manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Komorebi brings image, video and web-page wallpapers to Linux desktops, with a wallpaper creator and customisable animated backgrounds.

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Wallpaper Setter

HydraPaper – GTK utility to set different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

HydraPaper sets separate wallpapers on multiple Linux monitors, with image scaling, favourites, collections and random background selection.

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Wallpaper Setter

wpgtk – colorscheme, wallpaper and template manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

wpgtk creates matching wallpaper and application colour schemes with pywal, editable palettes, templates and graphical or command-line control.

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Wallpaper Setter

Wall Changer – automatic wallpaper changer

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Wall Changer is an automatic wallpaper changer.

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Wallpaper Setter

pacwall – live wallpaper

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

pacwall turns Arch Linux package dependencies into a desktop wallpaper, highlighting orphaned packages, available updates and .pacnew files.

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Wallpaper Setter

chwall – tiny automatic wallpaper changer

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

chwall rotates Linux desktop wallpapers from local folders and online image services, using a background daemon and graphical controls.

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Wallpaper Setter

flowy – lean privacy-preserving dynamic wallpaper changer

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

flowy is a lean, privacy-preserving dynamic wallpaper changer.

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Wallpaper Setter

LiveWallpaper – animated OpenGL wallpaper

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

LiveWallpaper replaces your current wallpaper with an animated wallpaper.

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Wallpaper Setter

Nitrogen – background browser and setter

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Nitrogen is software that lets you set the desktop background with a browser mode which allows you to choose and apply a desktop background.

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Wallpaper Setter

Azote – GTK+3 based picture browser and background setter

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Azote browses and sets wallpapers on wlroots-based Wayland compositors and X11 window managers, with multi-monitor and colour tools.

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Wallpaper Setter

swaybg – wallpaper utility for Wayland compositors

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

swaybg sets backgrounds on Wayland compositors using wlr-layer-shell and wl_output v4, with per-monitor control and image scaling modes.

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Wallpaper Setter

xwallpaper – wallpaper setting utility for X

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xwallpaper sets X11 desktop backgrounds from JPEG, PNG and XPM files, with minimal dependencies and support for transparency effects.

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Home Automation

Home Assistant – local-first home automation platform

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities, Web Apps

Home Assistant manages smart home devices with local automations, dashboards, energy monitoring, voice control and extensive integrations.

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Home Automation

openHAB – vendor-neutral smart home automation platform

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

openHAB unifies smart home devices and services through bindings, automation rules, custom dashboards, persistence and mobile interfaces.

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Home Automation

Homebridge – HomeKit support

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Homebridge allows you to integrate with smart home devices that do not natively support HomeKit.

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Home Automation

Domoticz – smart home automation and monitoring system

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities, Web Apps

Domoticz controls smart home devices and monitors sensors, energy use and weather with dashboards, notifications and programmable events.

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Home Automation

Freedomotic – Internet of Things (IoT) development framework

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Freedomotic is an open source, flexible, secure Internet of Things (IoT) development framework, useful to build and manage modern smart spaces.

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