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Network

netcheck – checks network connectivity

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

netcheck is designed to be run periodically, saving results to files from which netcheck-plot can be used to create plots.

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Game Engines

Prefixer – Proton prefix management tool

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Prefixer is a tool for managing Steam Proton prefixes, seeking to replace protontricks with a friendlier interface, faster responses and modular approach.

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Image Viewers

Imagot – image viewer

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Imagot is a basic graphical image viewer. It’s sort of an alternative to xnview/irfanview. It’s built with Godot.

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boxunbox – simple symlinker inspired by stow

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boxunbox is a simple symlinker inspired by stow with more control over where each individual folder gets linked.

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Images of shells by the sea

sh – shell parser, formatter, and interpreter

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sh is a shell parser, formatter, and interpreter. It supports POSIX Shell, Bash, and mksh. It requires Go 1.24 or later.

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Reins: Chat for Ollama – private AI chat

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Reins is a chat client for a self-hosted Ollama AI models. Connect remotely, customize prompts, adjust parameters, and more.

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Game Tools

Palapeli – single-player jigsaw puzzle game

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Palapeli is a single-player jigsaw puzzle game. Unlike other games in that genre, you are not limited to aligning pieces on imaginary grids.

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Emacs Software

Scimax – Emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Scimax is an Emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers offering configuration of Emacs for scientific programming and publishing.

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RAW Tools

flix-cli – movie scraper

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

flix-cli is billed as a highly efficient, powerful and fast movie scraper.

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WiFi

connex – modern Wi-Fi manager

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

connex is a modern Wi-Fi manager designed for Hyprland and Arch Linux, built with GTK3 and NetworkManager.

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Role-Play Games

MapTool – more than a map

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms Games

MapTool is an extremely flexible Virtual Table Top with all the bells and whistles.

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Selection of utilities

OliveTin – give safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Safely give access to commands, for less technical people. Simplify complex commands, make them accessible and repeatable.

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Mixer

wiremix – simple TUI audio mixer

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

wiremix is a simple TUI audio mixer for PipeWire. You can use it to adjust volumes, route audio between devices and applications

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Laptop

RogPerfTuner – utility to manage Asus ROG laptop performance and RGB lighting

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

RogPerfTuner is here to simplify your life and help you enjoy gaming on your Asus ROG laptop once and for all.

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Eye Care Software

eyerest – remind your eyes to take a screen break

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

eyerest is a Bash script to remind your eyes to have a little break from the screen. Set time interval and notifications via text files.

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Annotation tool

wayscriber – screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

wayscriber is a ZoomIt-like screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors, written in Rust.

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Emoji

HyprEmoji – modern emoji picker for Hyprland

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

HyprEmoji is a lightweight and fast emoji picker for the Hyprland window manager, built with GTK4 and Rust.

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Mixer

JackMiniMix – simple volume mixer

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

JackMiniMix is a simple mixer for the Jack Audio Connection Kit with an OSC based control interface.

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Wallpaper Setter

randwall – randomly changes the desktop wallpaper

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

randwall periodically fetches and sets random wallpapers from Wallhaven’s toplist

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Selection of utilities

ReflectorTK – simple GUI for reflector

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ReflectorTK provides a straightforward graphical interface for configuring and running the reflector to update Arch Linux’s mirrorlist.

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