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Kakoune is a code editor that implements Vi’s “keystrokes as a text editing language” model. As it’s also a modal editor, it is somewhat similar to the Vim editor (after which Kakoune was originally inspired).

From Gregory Chamberlain’s intro to Kakoune:

Whereas vi’s keystroke language follows verb-object order, Kakoune inverts that by following object-verb order. In real terms, that means you make a selection (object) before deciding what to do (verb) with it. The object might be a character, word, sentence, paragraph, parenthetical, regular expression, you name it; the verb might be delete, yank (copy), change, indent, or even transformative operations like lint, format, uppercase, etc. In Kakoune, it is with this reversed grammar, this postfix notation, that you interactively sweep up a group or groups of characters before acting on them. That way if your object isn’t quite right, you can immediately correct it without having to undo and redo your verb.

See also:

• Kakoune, the Text Editor I Didn’t Know I Needed (including tips on setting up Kakoune on macOS)
• Why Kakoune, by developer Maxime Coste.

Kgif lets you capture what’s going on in the active window on your Linux desktop, and render it as an animated GIF.

A terminal for Linux, with some unusual features including saving favourite commands for later use and ‘interactive interfaces’ which let you create simple GUIs to interact with CLI tools.

A colour picker for Ubuntu, elementary, and other Linux OSes.

Pick lets you pick colours from anywhere on your screen. Choose the colour you want and Pick remembers it, names it, and shows you a screenshot so you can remember where you got it from.

Goed is a Terminal based code/text editor, somewhat inspired by Acme.

With an integrated terminal, Emacs/readline-style keyboard shortcuts and a dmenu-ish command bar.

keynav turns your keyboard into a fast pointer mover.

parole is a simple voip program that lets you make a voice call from the terminal, without having to register an account, exchange emails, add people to contact lists etc. All you need is the IP address of the other person you want to call.

tbsm is an application or session launcher, written in pure bash with no ncurses or dialog dependencies.

[tbsm] only works with .desktop files to start something, there is no other config possible.

A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH.

A Linux kernel module to grab keys pressed in the keyboard, or a keylogger. Works with the US keyboard (and conforming laptops).

EasyBashGUI is a bash function library that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, dialog, or whiptail depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad, Gtkdialog or Xdialog installed or not and X server running or not

Using AppImageKit you can package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and derivatives.

The AppImage format is a format for packaging applications in a way that allows them to run on a variety of different target systems (base operating systems, distributions) without further modification.

[find] allows you to use your (Android) smartphone or WiFi-enabled computer (laptop or Raspberry Pi or etc.) to determine your position within your home or office.

You can easily use this system in place of motion sensors as its resolution will allow your phone to distinguish whether you are in the living room, the kitchen or the bedroom, etc. The position information can then be used in a variety of ways including home automation, way-finding, or tracking!

Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.

• Easy to use
• Common keybindings (ctrl-s, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z…)
• Extremely good mouse support
• Cross platform
• Syntax highlighting (in over 75 languages!)
• Colorscheme support
• True color support (set the MICRO_TRUECOLOR env variable to 1 to enable it)
• Search and replace
• Undo and redo
• Unicode support
• Copy and paste with the system clipboard