pacwatch vs ueberzug

pacwatch

A pacman wrapper which helps you watch important package updates. (by ouuan)

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 (by seebye)

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pacwatch		ueberzug
	Project
3	Mentions	35
25	Stars	1,252
-	Growth	-
5.7	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Python	Language	Python
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

Yay or Paru!!??
12 projects | /r/archlinux | 5 Jan 2022

I type yay in the terminal to use pacwatch which invokes paru.
What is a program that you use that's uncommon but essential for you?
26 projects | /r/archlinux | 4 May 2021

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
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2021

ueberzug

Posts with mentions or reviews of ueberzug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.

what are some good images/videos viewer?
4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 11 Apr 2023

original code here dev deleted it, where is the fork you are saying ? i only found this one
Image viewers.
1 project | /r/commandline | 12 Mar 2023
Terminal Image and PDF Not Rendered Right/Blocky
3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 19 Dec 2022

I guess it is using https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa for that, and it needs to be using https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/tree/2c55173878906c3b221cdef16cf083f0c412bb58
Ueberzug - Telescope & Ranger Media File Viewer
1 project | /r/neovim | 11 Dec 2022

They both require Ueberzug and have a [link to the repo](https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug).
Gnome 42 and lots of Thumbnail Previews
3 projects | /r/FindMeADistro | 9 Dec 2022

- image (depends on the terminal), I use something like ueberzug (which is not maintained but works). This requires the following lines in your config
Developer archives open source package due to harassments
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2022
This was very sad to see :(
1 project | /r/commandline | 1 Dec 2022

There are 90 forks right now https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/network/members
Ueberzug Is Not Maintained
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2022
Üeberzug Is Not Maintained
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2022
Überzug was discontinued
1 project | /r/linux | 23 Nov 2022

Überzug was (is?) a popular project mostly used to preview images in CLI, e.g. Ranger file manager.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pacwatch and ueberzug you can also consider the following projects:

cdhist - Linux shell cd history.

hologram.nvim - 👻 A cross platform terminal image viewer for Neovim. Extensible and fast, written in Lua and C. Works on macOS and Linux.

buku - :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text

lf - Terminal file manager

frece - Maintain a database sorted by frecency (frequency + recency)

termux-archlinux - You can use setupTermuxArch.bash 📲 to install Arch Linux in Termux on Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows. https://sdrausty.github.io/termux-archlinux/

pikaur - AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager

lf - Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store

snap-pac - Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like openSUSE's YaST

nvidia-all - Nvidia driver latest to 396 series AIO installer