For me it’s: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2
Just of the top of my head discovered today.
Not a GUI as one exists. But a more configurable one as it is crap for visually impaired.
Rpi-imager gui dose not take theme indications for font size etc. Worse it has no configuration to change such thing.
Making it pretty much unsuable for anyone with poor vision.
Also it varies for each visually impaired indevidual. But dark mode is essential for some of ua.
So if your looking for small projects. Youd at least make me happy;)
It seems that it is based on Qt, so there might be a easy way to fix this unless they’re creating their controls from scratch. I know QML can be used as a canvas to draw custom controls, so it depends on the code.
yt-dlp. Too many options to remember and look up every time, but all useful and missing from GUIs when you just want to dowload audio or ‘good enough’ quality video in batches without re-encoding.
While nmtui is perfectly fine for the CLI-uninitiated, I sometimes wonder why the nm-connection-editor window doesn’t provide the same level of functionality.
I believe ytDownloader might be what you’re looking for. It’s a yt-dlp frontend, you can export to video/audio pretty easily. And it’s in active development. I’ve used it to export short clips to WAV a few times, nothing too fancy, but so far it works pretty well.
(Windows only warning, unless someone wants to add Linux support)
I didn’t really search around for GUIs way back, but ended up making a basic GUI because I wanted to learn programming.
With just having options as checkboxes for YouTube-dl. It has served me well all these years. It was literally the thing I made while learning programming so the code is pretty janky when I look back at it though…
It’s a link to an image on github not sure why it doesn’t work for you. Try just looking at the repo then:
Too many options to remember and look up every time
This is a good use case for shell aliases. If you can identify a few of your use cases, you can give each bundle of options its own command.
I do exactly this for downloading music, I aliased my preferred options to ‘yt-audio’
This is what I use (with zsh):
yt-audio() { yt-dlp --no-playlist -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1 } yt-audio-playlist() { yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1 }It takes the best quality available and downloads it to mp3.
You can have most of the settings pre-loaded in its config file. I mostly let it do my preset -f, or when that fails do a -F to see what encodings are available.
Btw, here’s my config file.
-o "%(title)s (%(uploader_id)s).%(ext)s" -P ~/Videos -P "temp:/tmp/yt-dlp/" -f 271+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/308+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/137+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/299+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/231+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/http_mp3_128/271+140/308+140/137+140/299+140/231+140 --download-archive ~/.config/yt-dlp/dl-archive --no-playlist --write-sub --no-mtime --compat-options no-live-chat
I use jdownloader as gui alternative for yt-dlp. 😄 It was easy enough for my mother to understand, apparently.
There’s a firefox extension that generates the cli command for whatever video you’re on. Let’s you check boxes for the format, sponsorblock, etc and then copies it to your clipboard.
Just search the addon store for yt-dlp and it should show up
Dwarf Fortress no longer counts, huh?
I see you are one of our elders.
There’s no CLI that k wish I had a GUI for, but there’s many GUIs for which I wish there was a CLI version.
The cli controls the computer while the GUI controls the user
Why would i use something so restrictive as cli tools when i can change the data directly with assembly?
So crude, when you could use a butterfly.
Not at all.They are 2 ways do the same thing. The GUI can tell you what options are available. The CLI needs you to memorise them, or go somewhere else to look them up.
A lot of GUIs have less options available than their CLI equivalents. Moreover GUIs change more often, requiring you to relearn the actions to get the expected result Shells can remember the commands you used, commands are also way easier to write down on paper than a list of actions to do on a GUI And using man or --help is not going somewhere to know the options, you stay in the shell If you want to know all the features of a tool, reading the manual is also easier than browsing all the GUI
The CLI lets the user automate tasks, giving them more control over their workflow
GUIs can have just as many options. Sure there are programs with poor UX. Choose a good one. There are also many GUIs with no CLI alternative, or only a poor UX alternative. As the GUIs guide the user, small changes are understood right away. GUIs remember last settings all the time. Great for reuse. If you have to write a command down, for GUIs it need not be perfect. For CLI one letter wrong and it fails. Using man commands is yet another command to learn and does not work with all CLI commands. It is possible to automate GUI commands.
And even if there was some benefit to a CLI, the entire UX is so poor you can understand why most people prefer GUIs. It’s the dominant way for good reason. And why most CLI users use a web browser and GUI email client.
Git - the Github Desktop application is a great example of how easy git could be for users like me who only rarely use git. Every time I need to do somethign other then a simple pull or push I need to look it up and by the time I need it again I have forgotten the command and need to look it up again. Just give me something like Github Desktop on linux
Lazygit, beautiful, terminal based, runs everywhere
Lazygit
Thats pretty good, thanks.
w3m, as weird as that sounds, for image drawing.linksgraphical mode is nice, but I’m not a fan of its keybindings, and w3mimagedisplay is hacky at best, to say the least.Mount a network share permanently on Kubuntu. Non IT people need to do backups too. And Plasma apps can’t access network shares unless they are mounted.
I think https://apps.kde.org/smb4k/ can do this?
Thanks. I’ve tried it. But it’s not a permanent mount. The program needs to be running all the time. And it frequently times out. A very poor experience. Other OSs do much better.
Have you considered a network file sharing system other than SMB?
As long as it’s easy to setup, anything would be good. After many years of asking, nobody has been able to suggest anything.
Ffmpeg.
Came here for this one
A single, decent, maintained one for LVM.
Redhat had a couple of goes at this and they suck ass big time and rely on KDE (so no good for any other DE / WM). I’m not sure anything really works, so I’ll say: none exist.
Usbip, I’m learning how to build a Python GUI by making one for usbip bind and usbip attach.
My laptop, desktop pc, and VMs are running Linux. All of them (except the laptop) are remotely accessible over the local network via Moonlight game stream using Sunshine as the hosting software.
I use USB/IP to send things like a Dualsense controller, or USB headset over the network, as well as my yubikey if I need to log into something with FIDO2 authentication remotely. (I haven’t tested my yubikey over usb/ip yet but I will eventually) I’ve also managed to use my racing wheel this way but if it lags it hurts the game badly.
Webcam / headset / USB storage devices / game controllers work just fine so far.
I’d like a GUI app for generating CLI’s for other GUI apps that don’t have them already. An application is never complete unless everything can be done via a CLI and/or API.
I’m not sure how that could even be done, maybe a way to control the GUI with commands that you’d then be able to script, like Selenium on browsers?
Maybe. But wishes don’t have to be possible. :)
This is an interesting idea. There are some tools out there to auto-generate shell autocompletes based on standardized
--helpoutput. Maybe there’s some possibility to GUIfy that sort of thing?
INOTIFY a GUI for monitor file changes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify
Hmm, I might try to make that. Any particular feature you are looking for, or is just displaying all the events in a table good 'nuff?
I’m not them, but sorting by columns, filtering, searching with highlights would be useful. Also, specifying the columns you wish to see.
After writing it down this sounds just plain spreadsheet operations, so the real value of such a tool would be to do all the above at the same time as watching changes.
There’s also other things that would be useful. Like a feature to select multiple directories for watching. Live output to file in original format. Maybe also JSON for when you would use it from code, but that’s maybe not that useful because then why not just use the API directly… Perhaps some patterns for which ones to send as an audible system notification.
The whole CLI. Linux should automatically generate default GUIs from manpages and code, to be developed further by the crowd of users on the desktop. It’s pointless to handcraft both interfaces one app at a time.
I like Linux Mint (compared to Ubuntu, Debian, and Windows) because usually right-clicking takes me closer to the solution I’m looking for, but it doesn’t allow me to dig deep enough. It should be discoverable all the way from the desktop to what makes it tick. Think of Smalltalk by Alan Kay in Xerox PARC in the 1970s, or what it would be now had it been mainstream all this time. #discoverability #explorability
That would probably look terrible though.
I’m missing a good GUI to manage SELinux. It is probably because I don’t know how to handle it but I hate this thing with passion.
There’s a TUI called sysz for systemd stuff, but I haven’t found a true GUI
TIL! thanks!
Systemd’s problems won’t be solved with a GUI. Now that lennart’s gone to Microsoft we can hope they upgrade in rhel10 or 11 to upstart or sysv.
Why don’t they count? The systemd interface has been stable for a decade.
You can’t get support from lemmy.linuxuserspace.show or any other website if there’s a bug in your web browser. You can’t get support from gmail or protonmail or any other mail provider if there’s a bug in your email client. It’s awful how much people have come to assume that clients and servers must and always come from the same provider.
