All My Desktop Linux Tools !

my-linux.tools.md

OS

• Kubuntu (latest LTS) (Ubuntu with KDE Desktop)
  • Workaround for logo-key as application-launcher
  • Workaround for enabling arrow-keys in application-switcher
  • Disabled baloo file indexer service

    balooctl disable
  • Fix missing gksu

    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/pkexec /usr/bin/gksu
• Grub Customizer nice gui for grub configuration
• dconf gui editing tool for gnome configuration
• winehq-stable stable, powerful compatibility layer for running Windows applications in *nix
• hfsprogs mount macOS hfs+ partitions exfat-fuse mount exfat partitions
• htop powerful process monitor / management tool
• papirus beautiful desktop theme and icons (adapta-theme and papirus-icons)

DESKTOP/FILE MANAGEMENT

• Nemo very stable, smooth, reasonably feature-rich file manager
  • Workaround for focus problem
  • Gnome Disk Utility and ArchiveMount for mounting archives

    sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility archivemount
• trash-cli cli tool for working with desktop trash bin
• Massren bulk renaming (integration with Nemo)
• mmv bulk renaming when numbering is involved
• UNetBootIn powerful image to usb burner WoeUSB a better option for burning windows images.
• MKIsoFS conveniently create iso images from a folder

SHELL

• Zsh powerful compatible replacement for bash
  • Antigen (zsh plugin manager)
  • Oh-My-Zsh (a lot of tools and helpers for zsh)
  Other plugins

  zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting
  zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
  mafredri/zsh-async
  sindresorhus/pure
  zsh-users/zsh-completions
  zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
  zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
  supercrabtree/k

• tmux or screen split terminal into multiple (especially useful on server)

TEXT EDIT / PROGRAMMING TOOLS

• Jetbrains IntelliJ Community for programming and also gui for git
• Visual Studio Code for simple text editing
• Libre-Office great alternative for microsoft office; WPS-Office is more similar to microsoft office though
• Nano if text gui editor is not an option
• Docker perfect tool for software containerization. easy installation and isolation of software
• SDKMan easily install and manage jvm-based compilers, runtimes and tools on your system
• Postgres powerful, feature-rich, pluggable, active relational database

INTERNET

• Firefox my favorite web browser
  Addons list

  LastPass
  uBlock Origin
  Copy Selected Links
  Dark Night Mode
  Proxy SwitchyOmega
  Stylish
  Code Injector
  cookies.txt
  Disconnect
  EPUBReader
  Https Everywhere
  Page Hacker
  User-Agent Switcher
  Zoom Page WE

• Evolution imap/pop3/microsoft-exchange client

  sudo apt-get install evolution evolution-ews evolution-plugins evolution-plugins-experimental
  

• uGet download manager
• Transmission very powerful bitorrent client (with cli remote-control capabilities)
• YouTubeDL download video from web-pages and video-sharing websites
• Samba to access windows shared printer/files

  apt-get install samba samba-common python-glade2 system-config-samba smbclient libuser
  

MESSENGER

• Telegram Desktop
• Google Hangout (on Chrome)
• Skype
• Whatsapp (with Whatsie)

MULTIMEDIA

• MPV extremely powerful, high-performance, configurable and geeky player (doesn't have much of a user interface)
  • AutoLoad load all files with in the directory
  • Bookmarker define custom keys to quickly load/save/peek custom bookmarks
  • LocateFile show current file on file-manager
• VLC powerful player (I'd use only if I need user interface)
• Pinta for very simple photo editing
• Gimp for more complicated stuffs
• Gravit vector editing tool
• Flameshot Feature-rich handy screenshot tool. GnomeScreenshotTool Stable screenshot tool (works well with dual-monitor and dpi-scaled displays)
• Audacity perfect tool for recording and editing audio
• FFMpeg extremely powerful video/audio convertor and editor _{^{still couldn't find a decent gui so using cli}}
• SubtitleComposer subtitle editor
• gpick pick a pixel color on screen
• libretro game consoles emulator retroarch gui front-end for former
• mutagen cli audio files (e.g. mp3) tag editor
• PavuControl powerful gui volume control
• ttf-mscorefonts-installer & fonts-wine to install many windows fonts (Arial, Tahoma, etc.)

ACCESSIBILITY

• Autokey Define keyboard macros and hotkeys for custom actions
  _{^{(use it with python-libxdo to do more complicated stuffs)}}

MISCELLANEOUS

• Zenity create simple dialogs using cli
• GoldenDict dictionary with extensive support for different glossary file types
• Gahshomar Jalali calendar in traybar
• OpenConnect open-source cisco vpn client
• FileZilla powerful ftp/sftp/ftps file browser (when nemo couldn't handle it)
• Detach detach process from terminal (kind of like nohup)
• ForkStat log all newly created/exited processes with their cmd
• EfiBootmgr-GUI simple gui for editing efi boot records
• KDE-Connect connect your android phone to pc (file exchange, remote control, notification receiver, etc.)
• RSIBreak reminder for short/long breaks when working with computer
• KTeaTime simple beautiful timer