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Screen capturing

Awesome Linux Game Tools: gpu-screen-recorder-gtk

July 7, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

gpu-screen-recorder-gtk is a GTK frontend for GPU Screen Recorder. It’s billed as a screen recorder that minimizes system performance by recording using the GPU only.

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ebook reader

crqt-ng – ebook reader using crengine-ng

July 6, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

crqt-ng is a cross-platform open source e-book reader using crengine-ng. It is a fork of the CoolReader project.

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SSH

Eternal Terminal – remote shell

June 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. It’s written in C++.

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SSH

Mosh – replacement for interactive SSH terminals

June 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi and cellular.

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Audio equipment

Easy Effects – enhance your audio

June 19, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Easy Effects is GTK4 audio manipulation software which includes a range of tools. Besides an EQ, there are many other tools incorporated including a limiter, compressor, and a reverberation tool.

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Find

kindd – dd GUI

June 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kindd is billed as a kindful dd. It’s written using Qt Quick, a software application framework. Open source software.

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Calculators

mucalc – convenient calculator

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

mucalc is a convenient calculator for the command line.

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Calculators

concalc – parser-algorithm of extcalc

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

concalc is a calculator for the Linux console. It is just the parser-algorithm of extcalc packed into a simple console program.

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Files

xtmsplit – Xtremsplit-compliant file splitter and merger

May 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xtmsplit is a command line program that allows to use or create .xtm files, like the Xtremsplit program allows on Windows.

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Documentation

plocate – much faster locate

May 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

plocate is a locate based on posting lists, completely replacing mlocate with a much faster (and smaller) index.

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Bluedevil – adds Bluetooth capabilities to KDE Plasma

May 24, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Bluedevil integrates your Bluetooth devices with your KDE Plasma workspaces.

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toolBLEx – Bluetooth low energy device scanner and analyzer

May 24, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

toolBLEx is a Bluetooth low energy device scanner and analyzer. This is cross-platform software running under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Grunge paint background

KColorChooser – utility to select a color

May 24, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

KColorChooser is a colour palette tool, used to mix colours and create custom colour palettes.

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Grunge paint background

Gpick – advanced color picker and palette editor

May 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Gpick is an application that allows you to sample any color from anywhere on the desktop, and use it to create palettes.

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Grunge paint background

Xgrabcolor – basic color picker

May 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Xgrabcolor is a basic color picker, that allows to grab a color from any pixel on screen. It’s written in C++.

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Documentation

ucg – fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code.

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Documentation

ugrep – ultra fast grep with interactive TUI

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The ugrep utility searches any given input files, selecting lines that match one or more patterns. Free and open source software.

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Documentation

Dublin Traceroute – NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dublin Traceroute is a NAT-aware multipath traceroute tool. It’s written in the Go and C++ programming languages.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: CopyQ – advanced clipboard manager

September 30, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. This software stores content of the system clipboard whenever it changes.

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Streaming with Linux: Spotify

spotify-qt – lightweight Spotify client

August 19, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

spotify-qt is billed as a lightweight Spotify client. As its name indicates it’s built using Qt. Here’s our review of this open source client.

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