gnu-parallel VS yad

You can use GNU Parallel (https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/) to run command-line clients with all of those queries. You can set up the upper limit of simultaneous clients run, and this will automatically handle all possible parallelism.

Some other multi machine options that have worked well for me, well beyond just compilation of C/C++ on multiple machines with multiple cores.

1) set up passwordless, ssh.

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2) use the gnu parallel. https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

gnu parallel is super flexible, very useful.

How does this stack up againg GNU parallel? If you just wanna parallelize CLI work-loads (like nmap), parallel should be easier, I guess.

It requires jq for JSON processing and GNU parallel for concurrent searches in the notebooks.

Since you've got lots of images, you could use GNU Parallel to spread the job across multiple CPUs.

Gnu parallel

You could easily use something like GNU Parallel:

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

Aside from the obvious uses - command line scripts - you can also do quite a bit with the GUI. Check out Yad for bash script GUI. X11 related tools like wmctrl, xdotool allow you to create spectacular scripts. I write and use numerous dynamic menus created with bash + jgmenu.

Are you referring to yad?

git clone https://github.com/v1cont/yad.git yad-dialog-code

yad - Program allows you to display GTK+ dialog boxes from command line or shell scripts. YAD depends on GTK+ only.

yad pushing your shell scripts to the next level via user inputs. For example i wrote a small script which lets me select an environment and an app and the url+port is written into the clipboard.

I make a lot of use of yad (which I think is in the standard repository) to give a GUI-like feel to my scripts. yad is a significant advance over zenity.

make a binding on an empty workspace that calls a yad script at the cursor

You might want to look at yad to add a GUI dialogue box to your script. Something like:

I like yad[0] for this. For example, I use it to present a GUI color picker to change/insert colors in Vim (via a plugin called vCoolor[1]). I also use it in some i3/sway scripts that need user input or to show a progress bar.

[0]: https://github.com/v1cont/yad

[1]: https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim

zenity should be a simple start https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/zenity (and apparently there is a fork too https://github.com/v1cont/yad but haven't tried it)