Category: Utilities

Florence is an open source extensible scalable virtual keyboard for GNOME. You need this software if you are unable to use a real hardware keyboard.

Onboard – onscreen keyboard useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users

Onboard is an onscreen keyboard useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users.

Easystroke Gesture Recognition

Easystroke is an open source gesture-recognition application. Gestures or strokes are movements that you make with you mouse (or your pen, finger etc.).

Dasher – information-efficient text-entry interface

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Dasher is an open source information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures.

htop – interactive process viewer

htop is an interactive process viewer with filtering, tree views, CPU affinity controls, process signals and configurable system meters.

bottom – cross-platform graphical process/system monitor

bottom is customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. The tool is inspired by gtop, gotop, and htop.

Conky – configurable system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Conky is a configurable system monitor with CPU, memory, network and process widgets, Lua scripting, and X11 and Wayland support.

atop – ASCII full-screen performance monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

atop monitors Linux CPU, memory, disk, network, processes and cgroups, with historical logs, GPU metrics and per-process accounting.

gotop – terminal based graphical activity monitor

gotop brings colourful terminal graphs, process monitoring, custom layouts and optional GPU statistics to a configurable Go-based dashboard.

sysstat – collection of performance monitoring utilities

sysstat provides Linux CPU, process, disk, network and memory monitoring, with historical reports, JSON exports and SVG graphs.

collectl – performance monitoring tool

collectl monitors Linux CPU, disk, memory, network and process activity, with recording, playback, plotting and cluster statistics.

Saidar – terminal system statistics viewer

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Saidar displays live CPU, memory, swap, disk and network statistics in a compact terminal dashboard with configurable colours.

gomi – rm replacement

gomi is a simple trash tool that works on the command-line which doesn’t unlink (delete) files like the rm command.

trasher – replace rm and del by a trash system

Trasher is a small command-line utility that aims to replace rm. It moves items to a trash directory instead of deleting them immediately.

safe-rm – prevent the accidental deletion of important files

safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper.

trash-cli – trashes files recording the original path, deletion date, and permissions

trash-cli trashes files recording the original path, deletion date, and permissions. This is free and open source software written in Python.

rmw – ReMove to Waste

rmw (ReMove to Waste) is a trashcan/recycle bin utility for the command line. It’s free and open source software.

rip – Rm ImProved