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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 manages home automation, monitoring and alerts with support for X10, MQTT, Zigbee, Z-Wave and programmable routines.

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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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Home Automation

Calaos – full solution for home automation

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Calaos is a powerful free and open source home automation software. It features a complete set of parts to automate your house.

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Home Automation

HomeGenie – programmable home automation platform

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities, Web Apps

HomeGenie provides local home automation with programmable events, device integrations, custom dashboards, visual rules and optional AI tools.

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Home Automation

FHEM – Perl-based home automation server

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities, Web Apps

FHEM automates lighting, heating, shutters and sensors through event-driven rules, scheduled actions, device modules and web interfaces.

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Home Automation

OpenMotics – smart building automation

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

OpenMotics is a complete open source home automation platform. This software opens up all aspects of home and building automation.

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Home Automation

ioBroker – modular home automation and IoT platform

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities, Web Apps

ioBroker integrates smart home devices and services through adapters, with JavaScript automation, Blockly rules, dashboards and data logging.

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Home Automation

Pytomation – extensible automation system written in Python

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Pytomation is a lightweight extensible open source automation system written in Python. It is supported on any platform that supports Python.

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Virtual Keyboard

qtvkbd – virtual keyboard

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

qtvkbd is a virtual keyboard. It is a fork of kvkbd with all KDE dependencies from the original project replaced with Qt components.

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Virtual Keyboard

eekboard – easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

eekboard is an easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit. It includes a set of tools to implement desktop virtual keyboards.

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Virtual Keyboard

QVKbd – virtual keyboard

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

QVKbd is a virtual keyboard. You need X11, Qt and QML packages installed.

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Virtual Keyboard

Maliit – virtual keyboard

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Maliit Keyboard is a virtual keyboard for Linux systems with Wayland and X11 display servers. It supports many different languages and emoji.

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Virtual Keyboard

xvkbd – xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program which provides the facility to enter characters onto other clients (softwares).

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Virtual Keyboard

squeekboard – Wayland on-screen keyboard

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

squeekboard is an on-screen-keyboard input method for Wayland. It squeaks because some Rust got inside.

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