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Sudoku

KSudoku – popular numeric puzzle game

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

KSudoku is a version of the popular logic game Sudoku developed by the KDE community.

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Wi-Fi

iwinfo – provides wifi information about capabilities and network(s)

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

iwinfo shows information about existing wireless connections along with the result of an optional scan for wireless devices.

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Selection of utilities

alram – alarm for RAM

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Alram is an alarm for RAM. It’s designed to help when available memory is below threshold, with optional task killer.

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Game Tools

Hexkudo – GNOME number-placement logic game

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Hexkudo is a GNOME number-placement logic game. Each puzzle gives you a grid of hexagons and a few numbers as anchor.

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Mixer

pamixer – PulseAudio command line mixer

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

pamixer is like amixer but for PulseAudio. It can control the volume levels of the sinks.

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Selection of utilities

GhostMirror – mirror analyzer for Arch Linux

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

GhostMirror compares the mirror databases with the local database and provides a detailed description of the status.

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Selection of utilities

UnifiedPush – decentralized push notification system

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

UnifiedPush is a decentralized push notification system that lets you choose the service you want to use.

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Selection of utilities

yabd – yet another brightness daemon

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yabd is a simple (~300 lines of python) daemon that sets the brightness of the screen depending on ambient brightness.

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Git Clients

Hug SCM – The Humane Source Control Management Interface

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Hug SCM is an intuitive interface for Git and other version control systems. It works as a universal language.

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Software

Decman – declarative package and configuration manager for Arch

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Decman lets you manage installed packages, your dotfiles, enabled systemd units, and run commands automatically.

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Wallpaper Setter

SwayBG+ – advanced multi-monitor background manager for sway

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

SwayBG+ is a powerful, feature-rich background manager specifically designed for Sway window manager.

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Command Schedulers

ServiceMaster – powerful terminal-based tool for managing systemd units

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

ServiceMaster is a powerful terminal-based tool for managing Systemd units on Linux systems.

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Selection of utilities

liz-desktop – Rust-based shortcut helper

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

liz-desktop is a Rust-based shortcut helper to remember, customize and autorun shortcuts or commands. Developed via Tauri 2.0.

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Video

Phantom Player – simple video player

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Phantom Player offers a range of practical features, making it easy to play, organize, and manage videos from your hard drive.

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Mixer

pacmixer – PulseAudio tool similar to alsamixer

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

pacmixer is an interactive controller for PulseAudio mixers and settings.

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Groupware

Halloy – IRC client

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Halloy is an IRC client written in the Rust language, with the Iced GUI library.

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File Managers

sff – simple file finder

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

sff (simple file finder) is a simple, fast, and feature-rich terminal file manager inspired by nnn and guided by the suckless philosophy.

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Calendar

Calcol – wrapper to colorize cal

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Calcol is a wrapper around the cal command from util-linux that allows you to display a colorized calendar.

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Selection of utilities

folsy – folder synchronization script

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

folsy is simple shell script which performs a job similar to other (folder) synchronization tools, but with nearly no resource consumption

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SSD

SpaceMan – treemap disk usage analyzer

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SpaceMan is a treemap disk usage analyzer: In search of lost space (a.k.a. wata-analyzer).

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