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crudini is a utility to simplify reading and updating ini files from shell scripts, so named as it provides CRUD functionality.

Small X utility to perform elementary actions on windows

dzenstat is a simple monitor that prints system information out to the console. It is meant to be used in combination with dzen2.

This is bcron, a new cron system designed with secure operations in mind. To do this, the system is divided into several seperate programs, each responsible for a seperate task, with strictly controlled communications between them. The user interface is a drop-in replacement for similar systems (such as vixie-cron), but the internals differ greatly.

trend is a general-purpose, efficient trend graph for “live” data. Data is read in ASCII form from a file or continuously from a FIFO and displayed in real-time into a multi-pass trend (much like a CRT oscilloscope). trend can be used as a rapid analysis tool for progressive or time-based data series together with trivial scripting.

xdimmer is a lightweight X11 utility to dim the screen backlight when idle, then brighten it back up when mouse or keyboard activity is detected.

Whimsy is a small, highly hackable window manager written in Python.

It’s currently around 1000 lines SLOC… and supports a tiny bit of the Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) spec.

A free, open source Spotify-compatible client

For the console/terminal, requires a premium Spotify account.

Via Inconsolation.

zuluCrypt is a front end to cryptsetup, a linux native solution for hard drive encryption. As a GUI frontend, zuluCrypt makes it easy to use cryptsetup to manage PLAIN, LUKS as well as TRUECRYPT encrypted volumes.

Serman is a simple dialog-based systemd service manager. It provides an easy way to manage services with an overview of what is currently enabled, running, etc.

A bash webradio manager and player Features:

• Creating dynamic bash aliases to play/stop webradio streams from CLI
• Selecting a webradio stream via dmenu and play/stop it
• Configuration of streams in a plain text file

Prints freedesktop notifications to stdout

SiND is intended to either work as a simple console-based notification center, or be piped into other simple programs…

 See also

• dunst
• statnot

The ConnMan project provides a daemon for managing internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system.

The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible, so it can be easily integrated. It is a fully modular system that can be extended, through plug-ins, to support all kinds of wired or wireless technologies.

ConnMan can also be used as a lightweight alternative to, e.g., NetworkManager on the desktop.