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Home Automation

BottleRocket – home automation software for the X10 FireCracker kit

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BottleRocket controls legacy X10 FireCracker transmitters from the Linux command line, including appliance switching and lighting.

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Home Automation

BlueLava – CGI interface for X10 home automation

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

BlueLava offers a browser-based CGI interface for legacy X10 equipment, using HEYU and other command-line control utilities.

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Flash OS

Etcher – flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Etcher is an image burner with multi-platform support. It makes USB and SD card image burning as effortless as possible.

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Flash OS

MultiBootUSB – create multi boot live Linux on a removable USB disk

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MultiBootUSB is software to create multi boot live Linux on a removable USB disk. Similar to UNetbootin but many distros can be installed

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Flash OS

UNetbootin – create bootable Live USB drives

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

UNetbootin (Universal Netbook Installer) creates live USB drives that can install Linux or BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive without a CD.

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Flash OS

MultiWriter – write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MultiWriter lets you write an ISO file to multiple USB devices simultaneously.

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Batch Renamers

edir – command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

edir is a command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories using your text editor.

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Batch Renamers

vidir – edit of the contents of a directory in a text editor

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited.

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Batch Renamers

rename – rename multiple files using Perl expressions

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename is a utility that renames multiple files using Perl expressions.

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Batch Renamers

F2 – Command-line batch renaming tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely.

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Find Duplicates

rmlint – detect duplicate files and filesystem clutter

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rmlint detects duplicate files, empty directories and broken links, then generates reports and scripts for reviewing cleanup actions.

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Find Duplicates

jdupes – find exact duplicate files

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jdupes finds exactly matching files using hashes and byte comparisons, with deletion, linking and filesystem-level deduplication options.

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Find Duplicates

FSlint – find duplicate files and filesystem problems

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

FSlint finds duplicate files, broken symbolic links, empty directories, invalid names and other filesystem problems from the terminal.

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Find Duplicates

rdfind – find redundant files

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdfind identifies redundant files by content, prioritises originals and can replace duplicates with symbolic links or hard links.

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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 GUI, Utilities

Wall Changer changes desktop backgrounds automatically using local image collections, online sources, configurable commands and rotation.

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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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