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tmux/tmux
tmux source code
AI dev
Stack
- Updated
- 2026-07-09
- Lists
- 5 list mentions
- First commit
- 2007-07-09
- License
- ISC
- Issues
- 28 open
47,524
stars
- Forks
- 2,762
- Commits
- 11,733 commits
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- No 7-day history
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- No 7-day history
mpv-player/mpv
🎥 Command line media player
- Updated
- 2026-07-01
- Lists
- 6 list mentions
- First commit
- 2001-02-24
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 1,127 open
35,825
stars
- Forks
- 3,401
- Commits
- 55,292 commits
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- No 7-day history
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- No 7-day history
asmvik/yabai
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
Stack
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- 2026-06-14
- Lists
- 4 list mentions
- First commit
- 2019-05-04
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 240 open
29,206
stars
- Forks
- 725
- Commits
- 1,706 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- No 7-day history
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- No 7-day history
fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-07-14
- Lists
- 2 list mentions
- First commit
- 2021-02-18
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 58 open
23,711
stars
- Forks
- 830
- Commits
- 7,557 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
HandBrake/HandBrake
HandBrake's development repository
Stack
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-30
- Lists
- 4 list mentions
- First commit
- 2006-01-14
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 284 open
23,646
stars
- Forks
- 1,646
- Commits
- 13,475 commits
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- No 7-day history
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- No 7-day history
jarun/nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
Stack
GitHub topics
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- 2026-07-03
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- 4 list mentions
- First commit
- 2014-10-07
- License
- BSD-2-Clause
- Issues
- 4 open
21,692
stars
- Forks
- 808
- Commits
- 4,611 commits
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- No 7-day history
ExistentialAudio/BlackHole
BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
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- 2026-06-18
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- 4 list mentions
- First commit
- 2019-09-27
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 8 open
19,278
stars
- Forks
- 819
- Commits
- 641 commits
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- No 7-day history
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- No 7-day history
davatorium/rofi
Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
GitHub topics
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- 2026-07-09
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- 2 list mentions
- First commit
- 2012-06-29
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 111 open
16,251
stars
- Forks
- 690
- Commits
- 4,343 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
darktable-org/darktable
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer
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- 2026-07-02
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- 3 list mentions
- First commit
- 2009-04-07
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 606 open
12,707
stars
- Forks
- 1,353
- Commits
- 46,389 commits
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flightlessmango/MangoHud
A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.
GitHub topics
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- 2026-07-13
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2020-01-28
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 305 open
8,829
stars
- Forks
- 409
- Commits
- 2,567 commits
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- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
cmus/cmus
Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
Stack
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- 2026-01-10
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- 2 list mentions
- First commit
- 2005-06-05
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Issues
- 223 open
6,174
stars
- Forks
- 522
- Commits
- 2,372 commits
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- 0 0.0%
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FeralInteractive/gamemode
Optimise Linux system performance on demand
GitHub topics
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- 2026-06-15
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2017-12-11
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Issues
- 213 open
5,925
stars
- Forks
- 216
- Commits
- 740 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
dunst-project/dunst
Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
GitHub topics
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- 2026-06-17
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2011-09-07
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 120 open
5,549
stars
- Forks
- 379
- Commits
- 2,639 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
emersion/mako
A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
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- 2026-06-30
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- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2018-04-22
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 132 open
3,186
stars
- Forks
- 172
- Commits
- 650 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
FDH2/UxPlay
AirPlay Unix mirroring server
- Updated
- 2026-06-25
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2020-04-15
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 20 open
2,892
stars
- Forks
- 174
- Commits
- 1,456 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef
DeaDBeeF Player
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-07-09
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2009-07-03
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 379 open
1,940
stars
- Forks
- 206
- Commits
- 12,098 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc
Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability/integration over time.
Stack
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-07-06
- Lists
- 2 list mentions
- First commit
- 2018-08-21
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 47 open
1,912
stars
- Forks
- 151
- Commits
- 809 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- No 7-day history
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- No 7-day history
jtheoof/swappy
A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2025-12-16
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2019-11-19
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 48 open
1,482
stars
- Forks
- 62
- Commits
- 320 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
Audio4Linux/JDSP4Linux
An audio effect processor for PipeWire and PulseAudio clients
- Updated
- 2026-05-04
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2015-08-02
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 67 open
1,480
stars
- Forks
- 51
- Commits
- 1,111 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
celluloid-player/celluloid
A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-12
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- 2 list mentions
- First commit
- 2014-07-30
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 284 open
1,438
stars
- Forks
- 109
- Commits
- 1,891 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- No 7-day history
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- No 7-day history
jarcode-foss/glava
GLava - OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer
- Updated
- 2024-01-19
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2017-11-26
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 98 open
1,270
stars
- Forks
- 72
- Commits
- 332 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
cococry/ragnar
Minimal, flexible & user-friendly X tiling window manager
Stack
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-07
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2023-04-13
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 17 open
1,239
stars
- Forks
- 28
- Commits
- 323 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
aurelienpierreeng/ansel
A Darktable fork minus the bloat plus some design vision.
AI dev
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-07-13
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2009-04-07
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 61 open
980
stars
- Forks
- 39
- Commits
- 38,856 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
geekuillaume/soundsync
Virtual cables between any audio source and any speaker in your home
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2023-03-04
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2020-01-04
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 90 open
894
stars
- Forks
- 43
- Commits
- 924 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
ad-oliviero/uwufetch
A meme system info tool for Linux, based on nyan/uwu trend on r/linuxmasterrace.
- Updated
- 2026-04-14
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2021-01-18
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 10 open
814
stars
- Forks
- 51
- Commits
- 630 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
khanhduytran0/SparseBox
On-device toolbox?
Stack
- Updated
- 2026-07-13
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2024-09-07
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Issues
- 67 open
602
stars
- Forks
- 179
- Commits
- 72 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
0xilis/LetMePass
Bypasses YouTube's version alert
Stack
- Updated
- 2025-03-23
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2024-01-24
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 2 open
54
stars
- Forks
- 8
- Commits
- 15 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%