Introduction

Various programs & patches for selected Linux programs.

Includes universal patch files and Arch Linux specific PKGBUILD scripts.

Packages included

cr2fits

Convert Canon CR2 RAW images to FITS images. FITS format is used in astronomical applications.

More about cr2fits:

Github.com - eaydin/cr2fits

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

cr2hdr

Dual ISO image processing tool for Canon DSLR's with Magic Lantern firmware. Convert Dual ISO DNG raw images to editable format for further processing with Photoshop/Lightroom etc.

More about Dual ISO:

Magic Lantern Forum - Dual ISO - massive dynamic range improvement

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

haguichi

Graphical front-end for LogMeIn Hamachi by Stephen Brandt. Version 1.0.26 (GTK2).

Homepage:

Haguichi

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source archive.

ipcalc

Apply brighter colors to ipcalc output.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + patch file.

kbd-fi-nbsp

Custom Finnish keyboard settings and recommendations to eliminate non-breaking space character which is usually typed unintentionally in commands.

• Adds a custom fi_nbsp keymap for TTY sessions (CLI)

• Recommendations to use similar layout in X11 (GUI) environments

The package includes installation instructions to set up these settings on your system.

kde-cdemu-manager

CDEmu Daemon manager for Plasma 5 desktop with an additional "start in systray" patch.

• minimize-at-startup.patch = Adds --systray option as a start parameter. When enabled, the program main window remains closed and the program is started only in the systray.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + patch file.

kde-magiclantern-shortcut

Adds a KDE5 compatible shortcut file for magiclantern-bootablecard package. If you use another DE, feel free to modify Exec= entry in provided ml-bootablecard.desktop file.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source files.

kde-servicemenus-destroyfile

Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script for destroying files with shred.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source files.

kde-servicemenus-dualiso

Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script for cr2hdr package.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

kde-servicemenus-flif-webp

Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script for converting images to FLIF & WebP formats.

Requirements: FLIF libraries (GitHub source or AUR Package)

It is recommended that you add FLIF mimetype (as image/x-flif) in system-wide.

You may consider building imagemagick with FLIF support, too (use configure flag --with-flif) and installing qt-flif-plugin package (see it below).

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source files.

kde-servicemenus-hexstrings

Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script. Extract all readable strings from a file (binary files included). Useful for quick file analysis.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

kde-servicemenus-mediainfo

Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script. Show useful media information. Applies to all audio & video files.

Shows following information:

• media duration

• audio & video bitrate

• audio & video format

• audio channels

• video resolution

• video framerate

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

kde-servicemenus-multimediatools

Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script for converting various video & audio files from format to format.

Supported audio formats are: aac, ac3, mp3, ogg, opus, wav, wma Supported video formats are: avi, flv, m4v, mkv, mov, mp4, mpg, ogv, webm, wmv

This script can be used for multiple files at the same time but is developed for individual files only.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

kde-servicemenus-qnapi

Custom Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script for downloading video subtitles.

Requires qnapi installed beforehand.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source files.

kde-servicemenus-searchactions

Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script for searching strings inside files.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source files.

kde-servicemenus-unlockpdf

Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script for breaking PDF password protection. Allows you to edit read-only PDF files.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

kde-servicemenus-virtualbox

Plasma 5 Dolphin service menu script for resizing VirtualBox VDI files (virtual machines) via right clicking.

Input value: size in gigabyte (only a number, nothing else)

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source files.

kde-thumbnailer-ooxml-kf5

Plasma 5 thumbnailer for Microsoft Office Open XML Documents.

According to the developer:

This plugin should support all ooxml documents with thumbnails saved, including docx pptx ppsx xlsx files. However, most docx and xlsx documents do not have thumbnail image saved along with document body, you may not see the previews.

It only depends on qt and kde library. It is shipped with internal libkowmf copy for rendering wmf graphics from calligra suite. You do not need any office suite installed to make this plugin work.

Homepage:

KDE Office Open XML Document Thumbnailer

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + a patch file.

magiclantern-bootablecard

Add Canon's boot flag into a SD card, as required by Magic Lantern firmware. Original source code here

The bash script file has been modified to be more user-friendly. You can use a custom mount point, and the script asks you confirmation about the correct path before the script execution starts.

Usage: once you've inserted a SD card into your computer, use 'ml-bootablecard' command to add the boot flag.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + custom source files.

magiclantern-tools

Linux-compatible Magic Lantern image processing tools for pictures taken with Canon DSLR's with Magic Lantern firmware.

Tools: cr2hdr (for dual ISO images), mlvdump (mlv files)

Highlights

• Additional dry-run feature added to cr2hdr (--dry-run). Combine with Linux shell scripts, i.e. 1) to check whether images have been taken with dual ISO setting (without actually processing dual ISO images), and do further analysis for these images 2) to distinguish normal CR2 images from dual ISO ones, 3) etc.

• Adds baseline information to EXIF metadata

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + patch files.

mlvdump

Magic Lantern Raw file conversion tool for MLV files. Extract individual DNG frames from MLV files.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

netnamespace-persistent

Simple systemd service file for adding persistent Linux network namespace during system boot-up.

Usage

sudo systemctl enable network-namespace@netns1.service
sudo systemctl start network-namespace@netns1.service

Do necessary configuration into /etc/network-namespaces.d/netns1.sh (or any equivalent) template file.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source archive.

pacvis-git

pacvis by Jiachen Yang

Quote from the original source GitHub page:

Visualize pacman local database using Vis.js, inspired by pacgraph.

See my blog post for details: https://farseerfc.me/en/pacvis.html (Jiachen Yang)

This repository includes patched service file which changes the default pacvis service file behaviour in the following ways:

• run the server service as a regular user, not as root

• remove restart loop which renders the server unusable

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + patch file.

pano2vr

Create virtual panorama tours using panorama images.

NOTE: The PKGBUILD script is outdated but can still be useful for some people.

Homepage:

Garden Gnome Software - Pano2VR

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

panotour

NOTE: This software is no longer available from official sources.

Create virtual panorama tours using panorama images.

Homepage:

Kolor - Panotour

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

panotourpro

NOTE: This software is no longer available from official sources.

Create virtual panorama tours using panorama images. Professional version with additional features.

Homepage:

Kolor - Panotour

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

metashape

Create textured 3D models from multiple still images.

Homepage:

Agisoft - Metashape

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

metashape-pro

Create textured 3D models from multiple still images. Professional version with additional features.

Homepage:

Agisoft - Metashape

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

pidgin-smileys-facebook

Facebook smileys for Pidgin.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source archive.

pidgin-smileys-msn

Windows Live Messenger smileys for Pidgin

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

Homepage:

Pidgin Themes - Windows Live Messenger smilies

playonlinux

Patches for PlayOnLinux 4.2.10.

• 0001-remove-menuitems.patch = Remove Twitter, Facebook, Google+ menu items. Remove duplicate Run, Remove, Install menu items. Remove Donate menu item.

• `0002-add-shortcutitems.patch = Add an option to remove shortcuts from Desktop & .local/share/applications/ directory. While creating a shortcut, add it to both of these places instead of only Desktop. Create winexec bash script file for Wine, and link it to "Execute" field of each shortcut/.desktop file. Remove French localization & "Comment=PlayOnLinux" fields from desktop files.

For details about Winexec bash script, see this AskUbuntu page.

• 0003-add-addremoveprograms.patch = Add Add/Remove programs menu shortcut for each program listed on PlayOnLinux program menu.

• 0004-change-wineversions.patch = Highlight unused Wine versions.

• 0005-add-optimussupport.patch = Doesn't work? Attempt to add Optimus/Optirun support for PlayOnLinux

• 0006-disable-updatenotification.patch = Disable pop-up update notification.

• 0007-disable-closingandwinemessage.patch = Disable confirmation for closing the program. Remove Wine dependency (so that user don't need to install Wine on their systems in order to use PlayOnLinux)

• 0009-patch_disable-crashdialogs.patch = Remove PoL crash dialogs

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + patch files.

qgifer

Patch qgifer codebase for Qt5 & the newest giflib.

NOTE: Qgifer is a deprecated/abandoned program.

Homepage:

SourceForge.net - QGifer

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + patch files.

qt-flif-plugin

Add FLIF image format support for KDE environment.

NOTE: Add image/x-flif Mimetype to get this work (works with gwenview & kolourpaint at least).

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

skychart-data-dso

a DSO data of the SAC database for skychart software.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

skychart-data-pictures

Pictures for objects in the SAC database for skychart software.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

skychart-data-stars

Star data of the SAC database for skychart software.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

snic

• Repository link

Switch network interface mode from router to client and vice versa on Linux.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script.

sockstat

Linux variant of FreeBSD sockstat command

"The sockstat command lists open Internet or UNIX domain sockets."

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + patch files.

u3d

Set of libraries to manipulate U3D-formatted data. IDTF to U3D converter.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source archive.

wine-playonlinux

Patches & customized PKGBUILD script for Wine (Staging). Automatic PlayOnLinux installation script included.

Usage: To compile Wine-Staging with all included custom patches, please run 1-install-wine-to-pol.sh.

NOTE: Compiled package is not very well compatible with standard Wine installation methods on Arch Linux, thus the script removes compiled tar.xz file.

• custompatch_default-documents-dir.patch = Use XDG_WINEDOCUMENTS_DIR as a default Documents directory for Wine prefixes by default. You need to specify XDG_WINEDOCUMENTS_DIR in your $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs file.

For more information, check this WineHQ forum topic.

• custompatch_disable_automatic_menubuilding.patch = Disable winemenubuilder.exe to prevent automatic file associations.

• custompatch_glsl_shader.patch = GLSL shaders patch for Wine.

• custompatch_msi-add-dummyactionthreads.patch = Add MSI dummy actions since Wine lacks a proper implementation of MSI custom action server. See details here

Basically, this patch helps you installing many useful programs on Wine which would otherwise be impossible.

• custompatch_photoshop_getticks_input.c.patch = Photoshop brush patch for Wine. Details here

• custompatch_photoshop_keepfocus_message.c.patch = Patch for keeping window focus while using Camera Raw plugin.

• custompatch_photoshop_tooltip_win.c.patch = Patch for hovering Photoshop tooltip pop-ups.

Includes install-wine-theme-to-polprefixes subfolder which includes a script that changes theme for all existing PlayOnLinux wine prefixes automatically. You can customize the script to suit your needs. The purpose of this script is to improve & automate management of multiple prefix themes.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + patch files + PlayOnLinux script & files.

wine-launcher-creator

A Python-based GUI for creating Wine application launchers/Desktop shortcuts.

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source archive.

xclipshow

QT5 based program which shows information about the current clipboard content.

Original program code & instructions here:

Application that allows to show clipboard contents and its MIME type?

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source files.

NOTE: This program is useful for automating 'take a screenshot and paste it to Kolourpaint' process. To achieve this behavior, use Plasma 5 desktop environment + two additional command-line programs: loliclip & imagemagick.

For additional info and exact commands (and where to put them), please take a look into xclipshow/printscreen file.

xephem

A Serious Interactive Astronomical Software Ephemeris.

Includes a custom desktop shortcut image & desktop shortcut which are not included in the AUR package.

Homepage:

XEphem

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + desktop shortcut + custom desktop shortcut image.

zsnes-netplay

ZSnes Nintendo SNES emulator for Linux. Netplay version.

Homepage:

ZSnes Emulator

FORMAT: Arch Linux PKGBUILD script + source archive + patch files.