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Guillotine is a GNOME shell extension designed to provide a highly customizable menu for efficient command execution. It allows users to launch commands and toggle system services via the user-configured menu interface.
Polychromatic is an RGB lighting management front-end application for GNU/Linux. It is a frontend for OpenRazer that lets Razer devices control lighting effects and more, supporting over 210 devices including keyboards, mice, mouse mats and headsets. It runs locally without clouds or login, is licensed under the GPLv3, and includes firmware configuration, custom effects and a tray applet on compatible desktop environments.
mangowm is a Linux, macOS, BSD, or Unix resource for tools, documentation, communities, or system workflows.
dotfiles.github.io is an unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub. It points to tutorials about organizing dotfiles, general-purpose utilities for managing them, tool-specific frameworks, bootstrap repositories, and other users' dotfiles for inspiration.
herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for the X window system. Configuration happens at runtime via the herbstclient tool, and settings, window rules, virtual desktops and keybindings can be updated live without restarting the window manager. Each virtual desktop, called a tag, consists of a tiling and a floating layer.
awesome is a framework window manager for X, licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and targeted at power users and developers who want fine-grained control over their graphical environment. It is extensible using the Lua programming language and provides a documented API for configuring behavior. Features include keyboard-only operation and multihead support with per-screen tags.
