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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

zsh-autoenv automatically sources .autoenv.zsh files

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

zsh-autoenv automatically sources (known/whitelisted) .autoenv.zsh files, typically used in project root directories.

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Chemistry

JChemPaint is a chemical 2D structure editor

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

JChemPaint (or JCP for short) is the editor and viewer for 2D chemical structures developed using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK).

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Screen Capture

shotman is a screenshot GUI for Wayland

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

shotman is billed as uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors. It is designed for interactive usage.

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Laptop

OptimusUI is a GUI for nVidia Optimus

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OptimusUI is a graphical user interface for Laptops with nVidia Optimus Technology (e.g. switchable graphics).

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duple finds and removes duplicate files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duple will iterate through all files and directories that is given and find duplicate files (files are compared on their contents).

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TV

Televido accesses German language public broadcasting live streams

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Televido (“Television” in Esperanto) lets you livestream, search, play and download media from German-language public television services.

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Document viewer

Text Pieces is a developer’s scratchpad

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Utilities

Text Pieces is a small tool for quick text transformations such as checksums, encoding, decoding and so on.

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GNOME Extensions

Wardrobe is a GNOME customization tool

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Wardrobe is a utility for installing community made Gnome Shell, Gtk3/4, icon, and cursor themes as well as wallpapers.

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Files

Escritoire creates standards-compliant letters

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Escritoire helps you to create standards-compliant letters with ease. Just write your text, select a style and Escritoire will do the rest.

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Screen Capture

shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Productivity

shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11 which exports PNG screenshots to file or stdout.

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Annotation tool

Satty is a modern screenshot annotation tool

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

Satty is a screenshot annotation tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot.

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Text Editor

Tabëla formats tables into HTML or Markdown

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Tabëla is a very simple GNOME application to format tables coming from spreadsheets or CSV/TSV files into HTML or Markdown.

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Remote Display

Field Monitor is a remote desktop client designed for GNOME

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Field Monitor is a remote-desktop client designed for the GNOME platform. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Screen Capture

maim takes screenshots of your desktop

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Productivity

maim (Make Image) is a utility that takes screenshots of your desktop.

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Find

ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting.

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Warble

Blurble is a word guessing game

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Blurble is a word guessing game. Solve the riddle until you run out of guesses! The game is a clone of Wordle.

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Find

serpl is a TUI to search and replace keywords

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

serpl is a terminal user interface (TUI) application that allows users to search and replace keywords in an entire folder,

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Music

SACAD: Smart Automatic Cover Art Downloader

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

SACAD is a command line tool to download album covers without manual intervention, ideal for integration in scripts, audio players, etc.

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Documents

facad is a modern colorful directory listing tool

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

facad is a modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line. It’s written in C.

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Backup software

ArchiveKeep keeps your files archived in multiple places

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software

ArchiveKeep is a utility that keeps your files archived in multiple places, in a reliable and simple way.

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