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Selection of utilities

Launcher Studio – create and manage .desktop files

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.

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Batch Renamers

brn2 – bulk renamer with swapping

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

brn2 is a fork of brn, a command line tool used to easily mass-rename files in your preferred text editor.

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Font Tools

FontGet – install and manage fonts from the command line

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

FontGet is a command-line utility designed to simplify discovering, installing, and managing fonts directly from the terminal.

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pj – project finder CLI

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pj is a fast project directory finder that searches your filesystem for git repositories and project directories.

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Front-end Frameworks

Pico – minimal CSS framework for semantic HTML

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Web Apps

Pico is a lightweight CSS framework designed to style semantic HTML with minimal effort.

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Files

Marko – WYSIWYG Markdown editor

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Marko is a simple, lightweight WYSIWYG Markdown editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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basedpyright – enhanced Python static type checker

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

basedpyright extends Pyright with stricter diagnostics, additional editor features and baselines for gradually adopting type checks.

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Video Conversion

Leonardo – media conversion application

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Leonardo is a media conversion application that provides a graphical interface for converting audio and video files using FFmpeg.

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YouTube

Sunder – desktop YouTube music client

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Sunder is a native desktop music player that streams from YouTube without the bloat.

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SSD

MX Cleanup – graphical system cleanup and maintenance utility

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

MX Cleanup provides a graphical interface for clearing caches, old logs, package files and trash to recover storage on MX Linux.

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WiFi

Netpala – Golang based Wi-Fi manager

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Netpala is a lightweight (hopefully) terminal-friendly NetworkManager wrapper written in Go. It’s a clone of Impala.

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Art

Mezzotone – convert images into ASCII art

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Mezzotone transforms images and GIFs into ASCII and Unicode artwork through a TUI, with adjustable render settings and exports.

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SQL

squix – manage and execute SQL queries across multiple databases

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents, TUI

Squix is a minimal command-line database manager that allows users to manage connections and execute SQL queries across multiple databases.

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Hard disk

Vykar – fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software, Web Apps

Vykar is a backup utility that creates encrypted, deduplicated snapshots of data and stores them in local or remote repositories.

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Selection of utilities

xdgctl – TUI to manage XDG default applications

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

xdgctl is a terminal user interface that lets users view and manage XDG default applications and MIME associations on Linux systems.

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WorkTUImer – keyboard-driven TUI for time-tracking

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

WorkTUImer is a simple, keyboard-driven TUI for time-tracking that allows you to quickly add time blocks.

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Music player

GoPlaying – TUI showing what’s playing

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

GoPlaying is a Now Playing TUI written in Go. Display currently playing music with album artwork and auto-extracted colors in your terminal.

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Selection of utilities

RustLock – Wayland screen locker

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

RustLock is a command-line tool written in Rust that allows users to quickly lock their Linux session from the terminal.

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Application Launchers

MRunner – fast, keyboard-first application runner for Linux

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI

MRunner is a lightweight command runner that provides a simple way to execute and manage frequently used commands.

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Hypervisors

vm-curator – manage desktop QEMU/KVM virtual machines

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

vm-curator is a fast and friendly Rust TUI for managing desktop QEMU/KVM virtual machines with 3D acceleration.

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