pacwatch
A pacman wrapper which helps you watch important package updates. (by ouuan)
tdrop
A Glorified WM-Independent Dropdown Creator (by noctuid)
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| pacwatch | tdrop | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 27 | |
| 25 | 1,053 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.7 | 4.9 | |
| about 2 months ago | 6 months ago | |
| Python | Shell | |
| Apache License 2.0 | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pacwatch
Posts with mentions or reviews of pacwatch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-05.
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Yay or Paru!!??
I type yay in the terminal to use pacwatch which invokes paru.
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What is a program that you use that's uncommon but essential for you?
I want to be aware of important package updates but don't want to read the whole update list, so https://github.com/ouuan/pacwatch.
- Show HN: Highlight package updates for Arch Linux
tdrop
Posts with mentions or reviews of tdrop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-05.
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[TermDrop] A simple script to use your terminal as a dropdown in BSPWM
tdrop is wm agnostic (I use it in dwm), very easy to set up and does the same thing.
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Name a program that doesn't get enough love!
tdrop
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Rust Easy! Modern Cross-platform Command Line Tools to Supercharge Your Terminal
Let us start with the terminal itself. Alacritty is a cross-platform modern terminal emulator with sensible defaults. It is GPU accelerated, super fast, and highly configurable. You can use it on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It doesn't have much in terms of a UI, and hence all configurations are done through YAML files. I don't use it as my primary terminal as I love Yakuake too much for all its cool features. We can get most of those features (tabs, split panes, dropdown mode) using tmux and tdrop if really needed. I use Alacrity when I need speed and GPU acceleration. There is an excellent tutorial on using Alacritty with tmux.
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ScratchPad terminal doesnt load settings from zshrc/zpreztorc
tdrop is de/wm agnostic and can make most terminals a drop down terminal.
- How do I substitute Kitty as the terminal for the yakuake drop down?
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2-minute Tmux Tour
I've been using tdrop for about a year and not knowing how to get rid of the green bar it put at the bottom. Well, now that's fixed and I've learned to use tmux to switch between newsboat, cmus, lf, etc. -TY!
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No, seriously, drop-downs like yakuake have saved me countless minutes.
You can also use tdrop to turn any terminal into a dropdown terminal
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Using a drop-down terminal (with tdrop) doesn't play well with activities. Any solution?
So it's pretty clear what happens and why. I'm using tdrop, a little tool that allows you to use any terminal emulator as a drop-down terminal/scratchpad. Calling tdrop terminal with some parameters will show a terminal window, calling it again will hide it. I've bound this to a key, let's say HOTKEY.
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Set size of floating windows to a specific size: 2560x1440
[m~ ️️⭐ yay -Si tdrop [m:: Querying AUR... [mRepository : aur [mName : tdrop [mKeywords : None [mVersion : 0.4.0-2 [mDescription : Glorified WM-independent dropdown creator [mURL : [90mhttps://github.com/noctuid/tdrop [mAUR URL : [90mhttps://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tdrop [mGroups : None [mLicenses : BSD [mProvides : None [mDepends On : coreutils gawk grep procps-ng xdotool xorg-xprop xorg-xwininfo [mMake Deps : None [mCheck Deps : None [mOptional Deps : tmux xorg-xrandr [mConflicts With : None [mMaintainer : ATWA [mVotes : 4 [mPopularity : 0.713615 [mFirst Submitted : Wed 10 Nov 2021 07:46:42 AM EST [mLast Modified : Mon 22 Nov 2021 11:16:00 PM EST [mOut-of-date : No
- Yakuake like web browser
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pacwatch and tdrop you can also consider the following projects:
cdhist - Linux shell cd history.
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
buku - :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text
ueberzug - ueberzug is a command line util which allows to display images in combination with X11. The user is expected to have knowledge of theoretical computer science. https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/wiki/Troubleshooting/119e30f331799b30fb9594db29740685cb09425b
frece - Maintain a database sorted by frecency (frequency + recency)
equake
pikaur - AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.
nvidia-all - Nvidia driver latest to 396 series AIO installer
trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
snap-pac - Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like openSUSE's YaST