One tool for both screenshots and screen recordings, something no Linux desktop includes as a whole. Five modes at the top: the entire screen, one window, a region you select, record the screen, record a region. Below them: where the result goes (the Pictures folder, the clipboard or both), a delay of 3, 5 or 10 seconds, whether to include the pointer, whether to record the microphone, and a quality setting from best quality to smallest file.
The screen is captured first, as a single frozen frame, and the region is selected on that frame, so what you want to capture cannot move while you select it. Window mode detects real windows, so you get the window with its frame. Recording uses ffmpeg, and the stop button is a small window that always stays on top, so the recording can always be stopped.
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A small service starts at login and keeps the last 400 items you copied in a plain JSON file in your home folder, a format you can search with any tool. Super+V opens the window: type to search and press Enter to paste.
It deliberately ignores anything a password manager marks as secret, and anything copied from a window whose title looks like a password prompt. Items longer than 20,000 characters are truncated.
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A place to write something down before you forget it: one window, the list of notes on the left, the note on the right, and no Save button, because each note is saved automatically half a second after you stop typing. Notes are stored as plain Markdown files, one per note, named after the note, so they open in any editor, synchronise with any tool and remain after the application is uninstalled.
A sticky-note widget shows the same notes on the desktop. From a terminal, moonlight-notes --new “text” saves a note and exits.
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Everything needed to convert almost any file is already installed: ffmpeg, ImageMagick, LibreOffice, Ghostscript and poppler. What was missing was a simple way to use them without knowing which one does what. Drop files in, and the formats offered are the ones those files can actually be converted to.
Pictures to PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, BMP, PDF or icon. Audio to MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, Opus or AAC. Video to MP4 (H.264), Matroska, WebM (VP9), animated GIF, or audio only. Documents to PDF, Word, OpenDocument, RTF, plain text, HTML, Excel, ODS or CSV. PDFs to one image per page, text or Word.
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On the left, the pages of all the files you open, shown as thumbnails you can select, reorder, rotate, delete, duplicate, or add pictures to as new pages. On the right, everything that is applied on export: compression by quality or by target size, fast first-page loading for the web, PDF/A-2b for archives and official submissions, greyscale, passwords for opening and for editing with real permissions for printing, copying and editing, text recognition on scanned pages, title and author with all other metadata removed, a watermark and page numbers.
It also exports one image per page, plain text or one file per page, and can extract the embedded pictures. It is built on qpdf, Ghostscript, poppler and OCRmyPDF, the same libraries used by good commercial tools.
GIMP edits images. What every image editor handles badly is the final step: forty photos as JPEG, at most 2000 pixels wide, under 500 KB each, with the camera's GPS data removed. That is an export job, not an editing job. Drop the files in, choose what the recipient needs and press Export.
JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF or BMP; fit within a size in pixels without ever enlarging; a maximum file size in KB; the camera's rotation applied, colours converted to sRGB, black and white; a text or logo watermark in a chosen corner; a naming pattern; or all pictures combined into one PDF with one page per picture.
Three things people look for and rarely find: which device is playing, how loud each application is, and a tone control that is more than a single bass-boost checkbox. The first two come directly from PipeWire; the third is a filter chain the tool builds and controls itself, with bands from 32 Hz to 16 kHz.
The same controls are available from the sound icon in the panel.
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A bare Wine installation works but is unpleasant: no Direct3D translation, no fonts, and a prefix that emulates 64-bit Windows, which many installers refuse. This tool does the setup an expert would do: a 64-bit prefix with 32-bit support, DXVK for Direct3D 9, 10 and 11 and VKD3D for Direct3D 12 so that games and CAD software render through Vulkan, the core fonts and runtimes most programs depend on, and sensible defaults.
Double-click an .exe file and it runs in the prepared prefix. From a terminal, moonlight-wine --run FILE does the same.
