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In the comments section below, please share details of your favorite open source software that often goes by unnoticed by other users.
Please observe the following conditions:
- The program must run natively under Linux.
- The program must be fairly unknown.
- The program must be free (here we mean no charge) and published under an open source license approved by the Open Source Initiative e.g. GPL, MIT, BSD, Apache, MPL, etc.
When posting a comment here, it would be helpful to provide a brief description of the program, as well as why you use it.
Brownie points will be awarded to comments about software that meets the above conditions and is not already featured on our site 🙂
I use docfd quite a bit. It’s a TUI multiline fuzzy document finder. Saves me time.
Is it just 1 suggestion?
For starters, I think Meli is worth coverage. It’s a lovely email. client. And navi is a rather special interactive cheatsheet tool. I couldn’t find either of them on your search page.
I add 3 indispensable that I can not miss:
– Feeling Finder: adds countless emoticons anywhere, works like a clipboard, ideal for adding emoticons on websites, forums and anywhere on the net or almost…
– Apk Editor Studio: modifies any apk and allows you to extract its content. Personally I use it (apart from modifying apk) to extract icons from apk packages and use them in any system, including Linux.
– Lagrange: web browser for the Gemini protocol, one of the big surprises, with the latest changes have turned this browser into an ally for this protocol.
Thanks Ash, Trickster and Psyko.
I like to use TagSpaces for relating bookmarks, general files, photos and notes. It helps me a lot when researching places to visit and to write for my personal blog.
Hi James. I like gworldclock. It displays time & date in specified time zones. It’s in the Debian repos.
For any software mentioned, please give links or mention what Distro repos they’re in. Thanks.
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If someone wants to bring an external link to our attention, it’s best to drop us an email in the usual way.
But mentioning what distro repos software is in can be useful. We’ll try to write pages for all good suggestions.
Thanks. That’s understandable.
Suggesting Xmoji – disclaimer, I’m the author of that one and you’ll find the code on my github account, Zirias.
It’s yet another virtual emoji keyboard, or, emoji picker. It’s X11 only, offers two ways to “enter” emojis: Inject them using faked keyboard input events or take them into X11’s “primary selection” (middle mouse button to “paste”). It’s lightweight with minimal dependencies, written in pure POSIX C, no toolkit used, and doesn’t require any “input method” service either.
Packages only exist for FreeBSD and NetBSD so far (in the official repositories), maybe someone will step in eventually and create packages for some major Linux distribution 😉 Building locally should be easy though, documented in the README.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Xmoji has now been added.
You might want to add a package to the AUR. We built it from source without any issues.
Thanks a lot! Well, I’m actually hoping for someone else to do it. It should be relatively simple, but I don’t use any Linux desktop myself, so maintaining a package build is a bit inconvenient. I added a port to FreeBSD (my daily driver), after someone else already covered NetBSD. I think it should be very useful for those sticking to X11, so maybe someone will jump in here 😉
Ah yes, I see GauntletWizard maintained the AUR package for qxmoji which Xmoji supersedes.
Well even without a package, Xmoji is very easy to build in Linux.