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Painting Made Simple. Simple GTK# Paint Program.
Pinta is a free, open source program for drawing and image editing.
Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, Windows, and *BSD.
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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LiGurOS is a source based distribution building upon code and packages from a broad family of Gentoo-based distributions. Source based means all the software is compiled from source. The Gentoo-family of operating systems heavily uses portage as the package manager with the ability to change settings globally but also per package. So you can specify what exact configuration options are passed to the package upon building. This results in a operating system without bloat and running optimized for your processor.
Yet Another Dotfiles Manager.
When you live in a command line, configurations are a deeply personal thing. They are often crafted over years of experience, battles lost, lessons learned, advice followed, and ingenuity rewarded. When you are away from your own configurations, you are an orphaned refugee in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings. You feel clumsy and out of sorts. You are filled with a sense of longing to be back in a place you know. A place you built. A place where all the short-cuts have been worn bare by your own travels. A place you proudly call… $HOME.
PS4 emulator for PC.
PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++
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NixOS profiles for servers.
SrvOS is a collection of NixOS modules that are optimized for servers. They includes many lessons that we gained over the years while deploying servers for our customers. As we like to share, we hope that this project will be useful to you.
Pentoo is a Live CD and Live USB designed for penetration testing and security assessment. Based off Gentoo Linux, Pentoo is provided both as 32 and 64 bit installable livecd.
Penetration Testing Distribution.
BlackArch Linux is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. The repository contains 2828 tools. You can install tools individually or in groups. BlackArch Linux is compatible with existing Arch installs.
Zen Patched Kernel Sources.
Zen Kernel is a fork of Linux that applies out-of-tree features, early backports, and fixes, that impact desktop usage of Linux. Many of the features that change system behavior are hidden behind CONFIG_ZEN_INTERACTIVE, while many others are always available or configurable (such as CONFIG_MUQSS), for custom builds and distributions of Zen Kernel.
Source: LINUX Unplugged: 593: Zen and the Art of Kernel Preempting.
Gromit-MPX is an on-screen annotation tool that works with any Unix desktop environment under X11 as well as Wayland.
Its main use is for making presentations of some application. Normally, you would have to move the mouse pointer around the point of interest until hopefully everybody noticed it. With Gromit-MPX, you can draw everywhere onto the screen, highlighting some button or area.
Devilspie2 is a window matching utility, allowing the user to perform scripted actions on windows as they are opened and closed. Devilspie 2 is based on the excellent program Devil's Pie by Ross Burton. It will read Lua scripts from a folder and run them whenever a window is opened, and the rules in them are applied on the window.
polybar is a fast and intuitive to use tool for creating status bars. It aims to help users build beautiful and highly customizable status bars for their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting.
Profile-sync-daemon (psd) is a small pseudo-daemon designed to manage the
browser's profile in tmpfs and to periodically sync it back to the physical
disc (HDD/SSD).
It accomplishes this via a symlinking step and an innovative use of rsync to
maintain backup and synchronization between the two.
One of the major design goals of psd is a transparent user experience.
xmobar is a minimalistic status bar. It's usable with any window manager in X11 and (via its text output mode) Wayland.
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle, and floating layouts. It can apply layouts dynamically, optimizing the environment for the app in use and the task performed.
wlsunset applies day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors
supporting wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1.
SwayOSD is a GTK-based On Screen Display (OSD) for keyboard shortcuts such as caps-lock and volume.
Lightweight volume notification for Linux.
Volnoti is a lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems. It is based on GTK+ and D-Bus and should work with any sensible window manager. The original aim was to create a volume notification daemon for lightweight window managers like LXDE or XMonad. It is known to work with a wide range of WMs, including GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, XMonad, i3 and many others. The source code is heavily based on the GNOME notification-daemon.
wob is a lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar
for wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
Linux utility to configure modifier keys to act as other keys when pressed and released on their own.
xcape allows you to use a modifier key as another key when pressed and released on its own. Note that it is slightly slower than pressing the original key, because the pressed event does not occur until the key is released. The default behaviour is to generate the Escape key when Left Control is pressed and released on its own. (If you don't understand why anybody would want this, I'm guessing that Vim is not your favourite text editor ;)
xidlehook is a general-purpose replacement for xautolock, written in Rust,
with a few extra features.
It executes a command when the computer has been idle for a specified amount of
time.
Fnott is a keyboard driven and lightweight notification daemon for
wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
Dunst is a highly configurable and lightweight notification daemon. It's a lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments.
darkman is a framework for dark-mode and light-mode transitions on UNIX desktops. It runs in the background and turns on dark mode at sundown, and turns it off again at sunrise. It's designed to run in the background.
Betterlockscreen is a fast and sweet looking lock screen for GNU/Linux systems with effects.
batsignal is a lightweight battery daemon written in C that notifies the user
about battery states.
It's intended for minimal window managers,
but supports any environment depending on libnotify for desktop notifications.
A neat notification daemon.
Avizo is a notification daemon, mainly intended to add multimedia keys support to tiling window managers (Sway).
autorandr detects the connected display hardware and load the appropriate X11
setup by using xrandr.
It automatically selects a display configuration based on connected devices.
wmii is a dynamic window manager for X11. It supports classic and tiled window management with extended keyboard, mouse, and 9P-based[1] remote control. It consists of the wmii(1) window manager and the wmiir(1) the remote access utility.
improved tiling wm.
i3 is a tiling window manager for X11. It primarily targets advanced users and developers.
STAnd aLONE TRAY (notification area) implementation for X11.
Stalonetray is a STAndaLONE freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for X Window System/X11 (Xorg or XFree86). It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.
Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer.
Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.
Auto-suspend inactive X11 applications. 👀 💻 💤 🔋 Save battery by auto-suspending unfocused X11 applications.
Modern GUI applications tend to use significant system resources, such as CPU time, even when they're not being actively used.
XSuspender configurably suspends application activity (using Unix signal SIGSTOP or a custom shell script) shortly after its window(s) loses focus. When the window regains focus, the application is transparently resumed exactly where it had left off.
Your project’s nix-env.
lorri is a nix-shell replacement for project development. lorri is based around fast direnv integration for robust CLI and editor integration.
When changes are made that would affect a project's developement shell, lorri builds the new shell in the background, and applies the result on the next shell prompt. The result is that development tools are kept in sync with the current Nix shell configuration (even e.g. as you switch branches) without blocking your use of the terminal.
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for POSIX-compliant systems (e.g. *BSD, GNU/Linux, macOS) and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
twmn is a notification system for tiling window managers. It's composed of:
twmnc: command line tool to send notifications totwmnd.twmnd: daemon listening to notification requests and showing them one after another.
It shows notifications in a one-line bar called the notification slide. The user can navigates them through and activated with shortcuts.
An unofficial GUI wrapper around the Tailscale CLI client.
Trayscale is an unofficial GUI interface for the Tailscale daemon particularly for use on Linux, as no official Linux GUI client exists. It provides a basic system tray icon and a fairly comprehensive UI with support for many of Tailscale's features.
the tiling window manager that rocks.
xmonad is a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling X11 window manager written and configured in Haskell.
It arranges Windows automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximizing screen use. Window manager features are accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is optional. The user might write custom layout algorithms, key bindings, and other extensions in config files. It applies layouts dynamically, and can use different layouts on each workspace. It fully supports Xinerama, allowing to tile windows on dual or more physical screens.
systembus-notify is a system bus notification daemon.
It's a tiny daemon that listens for net.nuetzlich.SystemNotifications.Notify
signals on the D-Bus system bus and shows them as desktop notifications using
the user bus.
Stalonetray is a STAnd-aLONE freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for X Window System/X11 (e.g. X.Org or XFree86). It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.
Safe Eyes is a Free and Open Source tool for Linux users to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).
RSIBreak takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI)
Whether it's the health of your wrist or your eyes that concerns you, you need to take short breaks and it's all too easy to forget when you are busy.
mako is a lightweight notification daemon for Wayland.
It runs automatically on a notification emission.
Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager. This is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity.
awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It's very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. It's primarily targeted at power users, developers, and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on their graphical environment.
bspwm is a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. It represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It only responds to X events, and the messages it receives on a dedicated socket.
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. It can also run on Wayland (with caveats), macOS, output to your console, a file, or even HTTP (oh my!).
Upgrade all the things.
Keeping your system up to date usually involves invoking multiple package managers. This results in big, non-portable shell one-liners saved in your shell. To remedy this, topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.
Modern wallpaper daemon for Wayland.
wpaperd is the modern wallpaper daemon for Wayland. It dynamically changes the current wallpaper, either after a certain amount of time or via a command-line interface. It uses OpenGL ES to render the images and have beautiful hardware-accelerated transitions, while being easy on resources.
An urgent-first/most-recently-used window switcher for sway & swayrbar, a status_command for swaybar. Swayr, a window-switcher & more for sway.
Swayr consists of a daemon, and a client. The swayrd daemon records window/workspace creations, deletions, and focus changes using sway's JSON IPC interface. The swayr client offers subcommands, see swayr --help, and sends them to the daemon which executes them.
Widgets for everyone!
Eww (ElKowar's Wacky Widgets, pronounced with sufficient amounts of disgust) is a widget system made in Rust, which lets you create your own widgets similarly to how you can in AwesomeWM. The key difference: It is independent of your window manager!
A nix and nix-shell wrapper for shells other than bash.
nix develop and nix-shell use bash as the default shell, so nix-your-shell prints shell snippets you can source to use the shell you prefer inside of Nix shells.
Quickly locate nix packages with specific files.
nix-index is a tool to quickly locate the package providing a certain file in nixpkgs. It indexes built derivations found in binary caches.
Yet another nix cli helper.
nh is my own take at reimplementing some commands from the NixOS ecosystem. I aim to provide more feature and better ergonomics than the existing commands.
A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.
Upgrade Your Command Line. Level Up Your Terminal With Graphical Widgets.
Wave is an open-source terminal that adds the ability to launch graphical widgets, controlled and integrated directly with the CLI.
Open-source KVM software.
Input Leap is software that mimics the functionality of a KVM switch, which historically would allow you to use a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers by physically turning a dial on the box to switch the machine you're controlling at any given moment. Input Leap does this in software, allowing you to tell it which machine to control by moving your mouse to the edge of the screen, or by using a keypress to switch focus to a different system.