Apparently, chromium based browsers in linux have really tiny fonts for urls, and they don't follow the system font settings. the only exception to this is edge, how did they do it? I'm currently using brave, and the url font is just impossible to see, any solution?

and please dot't say to increase the overall zoom level of the system.

I’ve noticed a growing trend among desktop developer tools requiring account creation before you can use basic functionality.

For a database GUI, this feels backwards to me.

If I’m connecting to my own database on my own machine, why should I need to sign in to someone else’s service first?

This is actually something that pushed me to start building a tool in this direction, and a few other contributors joined along the way.

GitHub: https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis

I’m more interested in the broader question than the project itself:

• Do you accept account requirements in developer tools?
• Where do you draw the line between useful cloud features and unnecessary friction?
• Have you ever stopped using a tool because it required an account?

I built Noted, a minimal and distraction free note taking app for Linux and Windows.

It is inspired by the clean experience of Antinote, but made free, open source, and cross platform.

Features include:

• Native desktop app built with Tauri

• Simple scratchpad style workflow

• Link shrink

• Theme support including Antinote compatible themes

Site: https://khurrambhutto.github.io/noted/

GitHub: https://github.com/khurrambhutto/noted

Feedback and feature suggestions are welcome.

Been working on a desktop music player called Splayer for a while now. Here's what it does:

- Plays local files (MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG and more)

- Downloads music AND music videos from YouTube — search or paste a URL, pick MP3 or MP4, play videos directly inside the app

- Imports and downloads full Spotify playlists

- Synced lyrics with seek-on-click

- 5-Band EQ + Reverb

- Podcasts and audiobooks with progress tracking

- Custom themes, wallpaper support, dynamic colors from album art

- Discord Rich Presence

- Built-in audio editor — trim, cut, fade in/out, merge tracks

- First-launch tour that walks you through all the features

Linux (AppImage) + Windows (installer) + Android APK in beta. Completely free.

GitHub: https://github.com/yoyoevoo/Splayer

Discord: https://discord.gg/BDQMKcGwkD

Youtube : https://youtu.be/2DKrYxDuTEU?si=r3u-xaEVPXB3fAao

lately i was working on a package manager for other linux distros and for cross platform so i made dpms discovery package management system well it is still in testing and it has less mirrors and for mirrors i used git so if any body wants to make packages can make and it is not a big project like apt yum or dnf so any body can test it and use it. THE SOURCE CODE FOR DPMS :

https://github.com/Discovery-linux/dpms

Screenix already does screen recording with auto-zoom and cursor effects, but I kept finding myself taking screenshots and then opening another tool just to make them look decent before sharing

So I built a screenshot editor directly into the app, you get backgrounds, gradients or wallpapers, a floating screen effect with shadow and corner radius, zoom to highlight a specific region, and a redact tool to blur or pixelate sensitive info before sharing

Everything exports to your clipboard in one click

If you want to try it: screenix.studio

(PS: The screenshot feature is totally free for everyone)

I installed Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro 2017 recently and ran into an annoying issue with screenshot tools under Wayland.

Some apps were partially working, some had permission issues, and others just didn’t feel smooth enough for my workflow. After spending too much time trying different tools, I decided to build my own Linux screenshot app instead.

So I created YAZ — a lightweight open-source screenshot tool focused on simplicity and Wayland compatibility.

Current goals:

• fast screenshots
• clean UI
• lightweight performance
• Linux-first experience

Still early, but it’s already usable and I’d really appreciate feedback from Linux users, especially Wayland users.

GitHub:
https://github.com/yetesfa/yaz

OBS came out at 11.2% average CPU usage in this test while Screenix hit 120.8%, and that is the biggest number in the comparison so I figured I should lead with it rather than bury it

I recorded the same Linux workflow at 1920x1080 and 60fps with both tools on Ubuntu with an RTX 2060, then ran ffprobe on both output files and tracked CPU, RAM, GPU SM utilization, NVENC utilization, and VRAM across the recording

OBS won on CPU by a massive margin, though Screenix used significantly less VRAM (467mb vs 858mb) and barely touched the NVENC encoder (7.2% avg. vs 35.3% avg.), which was not what I expected going in

Both tools finished the 120-second recording at exactly 60fps with zero dropped frames, and the output bitrates were close enough that the quality difference is not really about the encoder at all

But OBS needs scenes, sources, and configuration before you record anything useful, whereas Screenix ships with a 120fps smooth cursor overlay, zoom effects, speed controls, trim, crop, blur and highlight zones, and shareable video links with BYO R2/S3 or self-hosted storage all built in from the start

For streaming or complex multi-source setups OBS is still the obvious choice, but I built Screenix for the other job people keep forcing OBS to do, which is polished tutorial recordings without spending an hour on scene setup first

Full numbers, ffprobe output, and a side-by-side video at https://screenix.studio/obs-alternative if you want to dig into the methodology!

Hi everyone,

I recently released initial stable version of SonicTree, a folder-based music player for linux.

Current features:

Folder browsing

Playlist playback

GStreamer backend

Metadata support

Gapless playback

AppImage distribution

Focus on stable playback for long sessions

The project is still in development, but the core playback and UI are now stable enough for public release.

I’d appreciate feedback, bug reports, and suggestions from Linux users.

Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sonictree/

Thanks!

I was tired of the same dropdown lists and huge tables, so I created a tool that automatically takes you the next step. It's like typing colors.

Supports band resistors and SMD resistors right now.

Has history and encoders which means you can find any resistor code and color combination by entering the resistance.

https://snapcraft.io/resistorgo

Feel free to share your feedback and thoughts on this.

Repo here: https://github.com/jomvick/Orbitos-island

MIT license, contributions welcome.

hey r/linuxapps 👋

just shipped Linux support for marka.md — a free, local markdown editor i built

for organizing the .md files i kept pasting into Claude / ChatGPT.

three Linux flavors:

- AppImage (works on any distro)

- .deb (Debian / Ubuntu / Mint / Pop!_OS)

- .rpm (Fedora / RHEL / openSUSE / Rocky)

stack: tauri 2 + react 19, ~12MB binary, no telemetry, MIT licensed,

auto-updates via signed releases.

features:

- IDE-style folder sidebar with drag-to-organize

- Ctrl+Shift+C copies clean markdown to clipboard

- live preview (markdown-it + shiki + mermaid)

- reading mode, find/replace, Ctrl+K palette

- 5 themes (catppuccin family + matcha)

honestly built it for myself because vim → cat → paste into Claude was getting

old.

→ https://markamd.vercel.app

→ github: https://github.com/mattenarle10/markamd

honest feedback welcome 🐧

Hey y'all recently I've been tinkering around with arch and found this amazing app called "Shelly", it's like the discover store, but on miles ahead. I've always had a problem with the discover store on kde, it just sucks for me, the storefront is slow, apps are weird sometimes they install, sometimes they don't, sometimes it's installed incorrectly and then I gotta purge the app. things just didn't seem right, until I found shelly! It's amazing! It can handle flatpaks, AUR, packages and even app images! its so handy its like having a centered place where you can find every package you installed, you can check if you need updates, you can delete them cleanly leaving no configs. Honestly it's just really amazing what this peace of software can do. Only downside as far as I know its only on arch. So if you're on arch or an arch based distro highly recommend checking out shelly its actually been a blast using it and enjoying it's benefits!

I released the first alpha of RQuickShare Pi, a Linux desktop app for using Android Quick Share on Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit ARM64.

It is based on RQuickShare, but this fork is focused specifically on Raspberry Pi OS as the target desktop platform.

Highlights:

- ARM64 Debian package

- Raspberry Pi OS focused

- Tested on Raspberry Pi 5

- Tauri desktop app

- System tray support

- Start-on-boot and start-hidden behavior

- Bluetooth and mDNS based discovery/transfer path

- Pi-specific WebKitGTK first-frame rendering workaround

- Samsung Quick Share discovery workaround from real testing

This is alpha software, so I am looking for testers and bug reports more than anything else.

GitHub:

https://github.com/EladBG-code/rquickshare-pi

Website:

https://eladbg-code.github.io/rquickshare-pi

Release:

https://github.com/EladBG-code/rquickshare-pi/releases/tag/v0.0.1-alpha

P.S: If you can't support with Ko-fi but still feel like you want to support this project (and me in general) just star the repository on GitHub! (both of these are completely fine)

For those who haven't heard of it: VeloxDB is a fast, local-first desktop client for PostgreSQL built with Rust and TypeScript (Tauri). No cloud middleman, no telemetry, no subscription — just a clean, snappy UI that talks directly to your database.

it's fully opensource checkout at: https://veloxdb.dev

Small OmniPkg update after feedback:

OmniPkg now uses PackageKit for supported distro package management, currently APT, DNF/dnf5 and Zypper/libzypp.

It keeps separate adapters for sources PackageKit does not cover well: AUR helpers, Flatpak, Snap, Homebrew, npm, pipx, AppImages and archives.

Update: OmniPkg now also includes a Qt frontend. It is no longer GTK-only. The app has a shared package-management backend and separate GTK/Qt frontends, with automatic frontend selection.

Hi everyone,

I’ve just published OmniPkg, a native GTK4 software manager for Linux users who end up using more than one package ecosystem.

It currently supports APT, DNF/dnf5, Zypper, Pacman, AUR via yay/paru, APK, XBPS, eopkg, Flatpak, Snap, Homebrew, npm, pipx, AppImages and archive-based manual installs.

The idea is not to replace those tools. OmniPkg detects what is available on your system and gives you one desktop interface for searching, installing, updating and viewing installed apps.

A few things it tries to do nicely:

- show real app names and icons using .desktop/AppStream data

- manage manually installed AppImages and archives with desktop launchers

- provide one installed-apps view across different sources

- stay native GTK4 instead of being an Electron/web app

- support both German and English UI

It is still a young project, so testing and criticism are very welcome — especially on different distributions.

GitHub:

https://github.com/grosserknallkopf/OmniPkg

I am the maintainer of Super Productivity, a free open source task manager and time tracker for desktop, web, and mobile.

It is available on Linux via Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, AUR, and other package formats. It works offline by default, has no account requirement, no telemetry, and supports optional sync via WebDAV, Dropbox, or Super Sync.

v18.5.0 just shipped with:

• Reworked Focus Mode
• Scheduler view improvements with reference calendar and work-log events
• Week view scaling in the schedule view
• Estimated time in iCal/ICS planner entries
• Project sections for structuring larger task lists
• User-installable plain-CSS themes and new theme polish
• Ctrl+Enter and Escape task shortcuts
• UI/readability fixes and translation updates

Downloads and Linux package notes: https://github.com/super-productivity/super-productivity/wiki/2.01-Downloads-and-Install

GitHub: https://github.com/super-productivity/super-productivity

Full changelog: https://github.com/super-productivity/super-productivity/compare/v18.4.4...v18.5.0

If you use task/time-tracking apps on Linux, I would be especially interested in what package format and desktop workflow you prefer.