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My personal favorite is powerdevil-ddcutil. It lets you control your desktop monitor brightness in KDE.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

duc, aur: it indexes file sizes of all your files and lets you browse it with a ncurses ui, for me that lives in the terminal this is a very handy tool for finding where all my disk space went.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are the pros/cons of duc vs gdu or ncdu?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

honestly I haven't tried either of these and a cursory glance on github seems its similar, duc is definitely a step up from just du -csh * is all I can tell you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait what's the -c flag do? And yeah you're right duc is a bit more stuff. Also, how did you get the code text to look like that? i pushed a button to test to see if it does that Edit: the button works, cool!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It has a pie chart in terminal! I used baobab for this, but it's only for systems with gui,this works on servers via ssh.

Edit: I think I misunderstand something. Does it have the piechart in the terminal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes it does

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

units, always surprised that this old unix staple isn't main repository. try:

units '40 rods/hogshead' 'miles/gallon'

as a nod to grampa simpson. have used 'units' in all sorts of DIY engineering efforts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oooh im gonna have to install this one!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for linking powerdevil-ddcutil, cool to have that integrated into KDE. Looks like that will be enabled with Plasma 6 by default: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/78536#comment218014

One of my favorite AUR packages is noise-suppression-for-voice-git. It can be used as a pipewire plugin and can filter noise from sinks and sources, such as a microphone for example. Similar to the popular noisetorch, it's also based on RNNoise. However, noisetorch can't be loaded via a pipewire drop-in config and thus has to be started manually or via a systemd unit, and also performs an update check everytime it's started. Thus noise-suppression-for-voice offers a cleaner solution IMO: https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice#pipewire

[–] eyolf 1 points 1 year ago

fontmatrix, which is the closest one has ever come to a decent font manager in linux, and latin-words, which is indispensable if one ever has the need for a Latin dictionary.

[–] trougnouf 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

trougnouf-backgrounds, because I made it and I very much enjoy using it.

It's a collection of photographs I find wallpaper-worthy with a GNOME wallpaper configuration file that changes the wallpaper based on the time of day each picture was taken.

[–] cocolopez 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for this.

[–] Agility0971 0 points 1 year ago
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