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Shredding paper

File Shredder – file deletion software

January 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

File Shredder is a file deletion program designed to permanently remove sensitive files from your computer.

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Images

ECT – fast and effective C++ file optimizer

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Efficient Compression Tool (or ECT) is a C++ file optimizer. It supports PNG, JPEG, GZIP and ZIP files.

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Images

JPEG Archive – utilities for archive JPEGs for long term storage

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

JPEG Archive is a small collection of utilities for archiving photos for saving to long term storage or serving over the web.

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Best Free Window Managers

croissant – stacking Wayland compositor

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that’s written in the C programming language.

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Network

Dynamips – emulate Cisco routers

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Dynamips is an emulator computer program that was written to emulate Cisco routers.

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Compositing Window Managers

stagen – wlroots-based wayland compositor

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.

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Compositing Window Managers

Waybox – minimalist Wayland compositor

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms Software

Waybox is a *box-style (minimalist) Wayland compositor modeled largely on Openbox.

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sdupes – fast duplicate file detection

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sdupes is a command-line fast duplicate file detection utility. It’s written in C.

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Music Festival

Revisited: kew – terminal-based music player

December 12, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license.

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Find

detox – clean up filenames

December 10, 2024 Steve Emms Software

The detox utility renames files to make them easier to work with under Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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Compositing Window Managers

Mahogany – tiling window manager for Wayland

December 9, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM.

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Seafile – file syncing and sharing

December 7, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Seafile is a cloud storage system with privacy protection and teamwork features.

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Compositing Window Managers

Hopalong – simple Wayland compositor

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Hopalong is a simple Wayland compositor with a feature set that’s comparable to XFWM.

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Compositing Window Managers

wlmaker – Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

wlmaker is a Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker, an X11 window manager originally designed to integrate with GNUstep.

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pwall – photo/video viewer and organizer

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

pwall is billed as a modern style photo/video viewer and organizer.

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Emoji

Xmoji – plain X11 emoji keyboard

November 29, 2024 Erik Karlsson Other

Xmoji is a simple emoji keyboard for X11 designed to work without relying on any toolkit or input method.

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Compositing Window Managers

Woodland – wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland

November 28, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Woodland is a minimal Wayland compositor based on wlroots and inspired by Wayfire and TinyWl.

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Batch Renamers

Bren – bulk file renaming program for the shell

November 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Bren is a program for renaming multiple files at once. Bren is versatile and offers support for post-rename scripting with Guile,

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Desktop Environments

NsCDE – Not so Common Desktop Environment

November 25, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

NsCDE is a modern and functional CDE desktop based on the FVWM window manager.

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Best Free Window Managers

Magpie – X11 window manager and compositor library

November 24, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Magpie is a soft-fork of GNOME’s Mutter.

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