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coolmojo ,

There is a gui for aria2. It is called Persepolis

plasticcheese ,

Rclone. Not because it’s a complicated tool, but because I would like a history of my file transfers and a few graphs to show we what speeds, files sizes and whether the transfer succeeded. At the moment in order to confirm my home backups have succeeded, I have to run a separate size comparisons between my different datastores.

LodeMike ,

I feel like you can parse a --dry-run

markus ,

INOTIFY a GUI for monitor file changes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify

lemmyvore ,

I’m surprised at the shortage of good Borg repository visualization tools. There are tools but they’re either incomplete or they try to do too much.

nossaquesapao , (edited )

I’d love to have archivemount or a similar tool integrated in a file manager

I’d also love to have some sort of full featured gui software to install and manage custom roms in phones, allowing to do everything, from unlocking bootloaders to downloading and flashing/upgrading roms. For the tasks that require manual steps, it could offer illustrated steps, with a community driven database of phone models.

mactan ,

swap and zram configuration. lots of games need more than distro defaults

joeldebruijn ,

Restic Backup!

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

Pandoc, for sure. I love its versatility, it’s made it super easy for me to do most of my writing in markdown — and a lot of MD editors have it built-in as an export feature.

But I use it too rarely to know the CLI commands by heart, and sometimes it would just be super helpful to open a GUI and batch convert (and/or collate) a bunch of files to a new format.

Tell you what, throw Imagemagick and maybe a light OCR backend into the package as a Swiss Army Knife for document management, I’d probably be happy.

HumanPenguin , (edited )
@HumanPenguin@feddit.uk avatar

Just of the top of my head discovered today.

Not a GUI as one exists. But a more configurable one as it is crap for visually impaired.

Rpi-imager gui dose not take theme indications for font size etc. Worse it has no configuration to change such thing.

Making it pretty much unsuable for anyone with poor vision.

Also it varies for each visually impaired indevidual. But dark mode is essential for some of ua.

So if your looking for small projects. Youd at least make me happy;)

MiserableConstruct ,

Wireguard

mfat OP ,

There are a bunch of GUI wg apps.

monovergent ,

yt-dlp. Too many options to remember and look up every time, but all useful and missing from GUIs when you just want to dowload audio or ‘good enough’ quality video in batches without re-encoding.

While nmtui is perfectly fine for the CLI-uninitiated, I sometimes wonder why the nm-connection-editor window doesn’t provide the same level of functionality.

everett ,

Too many options to remember and look up every time

This is a good use case for shell aliases. If you can identify a few of your use cases, you can give each bundle of options its own command.

amanneedsamaid ,

I do exactly this for downloading music, I aliased my preferred options to ‘yt-audio’

mfat OP ,

Would you mind sharing your command?

jeena ,
@jeena@piefed.jeena.net avatar

For me it's the other way around I wish there would be better CLI support for GUI apps.

mfat OP ,

Any examples?

jeena ,
@jeena@piefed.jeena.net avatar
  1. Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
  2. Excel to change stuff in excel files quickly (I know about python modules but it's so complicated to use)
  3. Proprietary VPN software like Cisco AnyConnect, I want to automate the login when I boot, but they don't let me

Just from the top of my head.

SeeJayEmm ,
@SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org avatar

For Excel there is a PowerShell module called Import-Excel that I use all the time.

jeena ,
@jeena@piefed.jeena.net avatar

I see, nice, but I'm on Linux, so perhaps I need to run power shell there ^^

SeeJayEmm ,
@SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org avatar

I forgot where I was posting. (I use both win and Linux pretty heavily.) I have pwsh, let me see if import-excel works on linux and report back.

SeeJayEmm , (edited )
@SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org avatar

Appears to work as well as it does on windows. I guess the only downside is learning powershell if you have no previous experience with it.

@jeena

nmtake ,
  1. Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)

It seems to exist: www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/

Lydia_K ,
@Lydia_K@startrek.website avatar

Check out openconnect to connect to anyconnect VPNs

jeena ,
@jeena@piefed.jeena.net avatar

I did, doesn't work with our company setup with 2FA.

ik5pvx ,

For anyconnect: openconnect works perfectly, either as standalone script or via networkmangler.

rescue_toaster ,

pavucontrol. I switch between usb headset and my external speakers all the time. Continually going to this gui is kind of annoying.

mranderson17 ,

I use a little oneliner with tofi (rofi/wofi would also work) to select the current output and avoid pavucontrol. It’s mapped to a sway binding but would probably work in any wm/de:


<span style="color:#323232;">pactl set-default-sink $(pactl list short sinks |awk '{print $2}' |tofi $tofi_args)
</span>

I’m using pipewire so the functionality of pactl is actually provided through pipewire-pulse I think

notabot ,

It’s been years since I had to admin Windows servers, but I was quite impressed with the number of MS products where the install and configuration tools would output the Powershell commands to carry out the changes you’d asked for. It made it quite a lot easier to automate. I’d love to see that paradigm catch on more widely, with the GUI and CLI having the same functionality and the GUI giving you the commands to run.

joeldebruijn ,

This, but for a Fireshot like tool. Screenshot and pdf of webpages in their entirety by scrolling while shotting. In bulk, with CLI.

Strit ,
@Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show avatar

I’d love supported GUI apps for pacman and systemd. I know there are GUI’s out there for them, but they are not supported by the main project, so they don’t count.

mfat OP ,

Yeah I think a good GUI for systemd will be super useful even for people comfortable with command line.

Sometimes you need an overview of what is running on the system.

JetpackJackson ,

There’s a TUI called sysz for systemd stuff, but I haven’t found a true GUI

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