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Game Tools

GNOME Klotski – sliding block puzzle game

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GNOME Klotski is a set of block sliding puzzles. It’s a clone of the Klotski game.

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Wattage – monitor the health and status of power devices

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Wattage is an application designed for monitoring the health and status of your power devices.

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Document Scanner – GNOME based tool

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Document Scanner lets you capture images using image scanners (e.g. flatbed scanners) that have suitable SANE drivers installed.

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Photo Metadata

Scramble – privacy-focused image metadata removal tool

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Scramble provides a clean, intuitive interface featuring a user-friendly drag-and-drop workflow for metadata inspection and removal.

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Mixer

Mixer – change the volume of apps

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Mixer is a no-frills volume mixer, with simplicity and usability at its core. It’s written in the Vala programming language.

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Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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Tetris

Quadrapassel – falling-block game

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Quadrapassel is a derivative of a classic falling-block game.

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Color Palette – look up GNOME colors

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Color Palette is a tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Reminduck – simple reminder app

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Reminduck is a simple reminder app made to be quick and easy. Reminduck focuses on simple or recurrent reminders

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education

Hypatia – research tool for the Linux desktop

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Hypatia is a research tool for the Linux desktop. It’s designed to provide at-a-glance information about the topics you’re reading

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Education

Gradebook – keep track of your grades

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Gradebook is a simple tool that helps you keep track of your grades. This way you always know how you are doing in your courses.

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Seriot – serial monitor and serial plotter

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Seriot is a GNOME desktop serial monitor and serial plotter that’s written in the Vala programming language.

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ProtonPlus – modern compatibility tools manager

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ProtonPlus lets you install and manage Wine/Proton based compatibility tools with a graphical user interface.

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IDE

roobuilder – Vala and JavaScript IDE

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

It’s used to build Vala Desktop applications and JavaScript UI’s using the roojs libraries (for bootstrap and classic).

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Bomb

Mines is a puzzle game where you locate mines

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Mines (previously gnomine) is a puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck.

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Dot Matrix creates glyphs

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Utilities

Dot Matrix is a GUI tool which acts as glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

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Sticky Notes

Jorts is a colourful sticky notes program

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Jorts is a sticky notes app designed for elementary OS but runs on any Linux distribution.

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MangoJuice is a GUI tool to configure MangoHud

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

MangoJuice aims to be an convenient alternative to GOverlay for setting up MangoHud.

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Time tracking

Flowtime – spend your time wisely

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Flowtime is a GUI program to get what motivates you done, without losing concentration.

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Music player

Turntable scrobbles your music

May 1, 2025 Luke Baker CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Turntable is a GUI and CLI program that scrobbles your music. It’s written in Vala.

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