Useful Arch Packages

A collection of Arch Linux packages and utilities that I will remember needing their functionality but not their name. This list is extremely outdated at all times and does not properly reflect what I normally use.

• Ranger: vim-inspired file manager
• Flameshot: screenshot utility
• i3-input
• lxappearance: change mouse cursor, colors, etc
• morc-menu: categorized application launcher
• Joplin: note-taking
• firefox-developer-edition
• convert: ImageMagick
• pdftk: PDF Toolkit
• powerlevel10k: easy and super customizable oh_my_zsh terminal prompt
• scp: secure copy, super sexy
• GNU autotools: helps make source code packages portable
• fuser: see what processes are using certain ports
• easystroke: mouse gestures in linux
• dig: DNS checker
• s-tui: terminal resource monitor
• xprop: see information about X windows
• bmenu: cli menu to launch different things, a “toolbox”. on manjaro-i3
• autorandr: automatically configuring monitors when they are plugged in
• logrotate
• netstat: see ips and ports in use. part of net-tools
• trimage: png image compressor for web
• LightDM: login manager for Manjaro-i3
• xcompmgr: composite manager
• rofi: fancy dmenu
• powertop and tlp: power calibration and management
• xfontsel: print font information for configs
• powerkit: power settings on Balena, screen timeout/lock
• avahi + nss-mdns: special networking for pi zero via usb
• sox: play audio files from terminal
• noto-fonts-emoji: adds more unicode characters and emoji
• pyenv: python version and virtualenvironment management
• ly display manager (login screen)
• nerd-fonts-terminus: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nerd-fonts-terminus/
• xclip: cli interface to clipboard
• dmidecode: see detailed hardware information
• acpi: see detailed battery info
• xset: change keypress repeat and delay
• blugon: blue light filter written in python
• speedcrunch: powerful calculator
• progress: displays the progress of data commands like cp and mv
• kernel-modules-hook: remembers your kernel modules, so no more restarting after certain packages (like podman!)
• libfido2: authenticator key support (solokey)
• net-tools: self-explanator, almost always needed eventually
• polkit-gnome: proper permissions for nm-applet
• bluez-utils: provides bluetoothctl
• pdftk: adding pages to PDFs (actually hot garbage)
• https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh gnome terminal themes
• detox: renames files from other operating systems to not be obnoxious https://detox.sourceforge.net/
• solaar: Logitech keyboard, mouse, and peripheral configuration software for Linux
• BRISS: split pdf
• pdfmixtool: generate pdf booklet
• toilet & figlet: ascii letter generation
• socat
• mkinitcpio-firmware - suppress missing firmware messages
• mpd - music player daemon, cool ncurses interface
• croc - extremely convenient way to securely transfer files
• fd - a much more convenient implementation of find written in Rust
• nvtop - htop for GPUs