 It's hard to believe that this year is half over with already. It's kind of astonishing how fast time goes But be that as it may It's time for another iteration of top five Linux apps of the month this time for June 2021 It is June. I checked like five or six times. It was amazing that it's actually doing anyway So each month I scour the interwebs to To find five awesome Linux apps that I can share with you here on the channel and this month is no different If you'd like to see previous months version of this list, you can actually see them in the card above or in the link in the video description There's only one video there now, but there will be more and if you have an app You'd like to see on this list someday you can leave that in the video description as well Just don't leave a link because YouTube will actually delete that comment Just leave the name of the app and the developer's name if you know it So let's go ahead and jump into the top Linux apps of the month for June 2021. So the first app of this month is called Waldo WALDL. We're just gonna call it WALDL. WALDL Kind of like YouTube DL for wallpapers This script downloads wallpapers from a website called wallhaven I believe is what we're getting the wallpapers from and it's really cool because it allows you to browse through wallpapers From this website in SXIV. So let me go ahead and demonstrate this for you So in order to do this you download the script from the github and then you cd into the scripts a Folder you can also put this in your path if you know how to do that But right now I'm I've just cd'd into the folder that I downloaded and you can run this by doing dot slash WALDL and then whatever search term you want to Search for so in this case. I'm just gonna search for arch Linux Okay, and then basically what that's going to do is it's going to download a certain amount of web or wallpapers And then you can go through and you know browse through them You can make them big. This is SXIV. So if you know how to use SXIV The key bindings and stuff there work just like they normally would do you can make them bigger by going hitting the enter key and Same thing to get out of enter key. So so on and so forth and then if you want to go through and download Any of these are all these you just mark them with the letter M So and then you can unmark them also by the letter M And then when you quit this by hitting Q It'll actually go through and download those ones that you marked and they'll be in a certain folder It tells you the folder in the github. It's in dot local slash share slash Actually tells you this right here That local dash share slash wall haven wall haven's the name of the website that downloads these things from it will also open up one of the Wallpapers that you downloaded. So that is WALDL the second app for this month is called sysmon task and basically what this is is a system Resource manager Similar to like be pi top or h top or something that only this is a gooey and it's very similar to what she'd see on windows So if you're coming from windows and you enjoy task manager In windows, this is very similar to that. It has quite a few tools. It has a process manager It has graphs and performance for all of your CPUs and memories and the hard drives and your your ethernet and all that stuff It's really cool It's very pretty and it does a lot of stuff So it tells you your temperature and the utilization and all the stuff that you'd expect a graphical task manager to do and it makes it it works Very well if you prefer gooey based task managers This is definitely one you should check out the third app for this month is called a span so now a span so is A text expansion demon So if you've used the Mac at all and you've used an app called text expander This one is very similar to that only this one is free and open source And it's not as easy to configure, but it's still very very good So basically what a text expander does is it allows you to take basically small abbreviations And then it matches them to something that's much larger and then explains them So for example, you can type in Colon date and it will actually go through and expand into the day's date And that's really cool and you can go through and set as many of these Expansions as you want so for example, I'm going to go through and set up an expansion So it will go through and type in every single thing that I have to usually put in a video description I haven't gone through and done that yet, but it should be possible and it's very easy to do You can also go through and do things like if you have an email signature for different email addresses or different email accounts You could go through and set up an expansion for each one of those and you just type in a certain abbreviation So, you know, whatever and it would go through and expand to the signature that you want. It's really cool It's really easy. Now if I if you want I can show you The the Espansso configuration file, this is where you go through and actually add in your matches, so it the configuration file is in Dot config Espansso If we do an ls here and actually if I zoom in here so you can actually see The configuration file is default.yaml and this is just basically a yaml file So if we've been into default.yaml and we can actually see how these matches work So if we type in say like for example, if we type in Espansso it expands to high there if we type in Shell It actually will type in or expand to hello from your shell, you know, whatever. I mean, these are all useless You know Replacements, but you can get the idea of how this could be useful if you have things that you type have to type in long form all the time This short form kind of shorthand kind of way of doing it would be very very useful And it's definitely something that I'm gonna be keeping around. It's very good and it runs as a demon so we'll start up as your every time your computer starts up and We'll just always kind of live in the background and every time you type in one of these Triggers it will go through and expand to whatever you want to expand to and You like I said you make these matches and triggers and stuff like that in this configuration file I wish there was a GUI version of this that you could go through and create These triggers and stuff in a GUI because I think a lot of people would be more comfortable with that But as far as I know that doesn't exist the fourth app on this list for this month is called flame shot now flame Shot has been around for a long time But I recently I've been trying to find a better Screenshot tool so the screenshot tool I always use is just the XFC screenshot tool and it's good For what it is it does what it says on the box You know, it's not necessarily the most powerful tools. It just takes screenshots. I was looking for something a little bit more powerful So I came across flame shy think Tyler put me on to this. I can't remember it might have been Somebody else I can't like I said, I can't quite remember but it's still This is awesome. So I can't get it to run Really great in DWM because I don't have a tray now if you don't have if you have a tray like I'm talking about a tray I'm talking up here in the bar. You'd have those little icons or whatever This works way better than but I don't have one of those so I have to do this a little bit differently So I type in flame shot GUI and I can show you how this works So I type this in this is probably not how you'll have to do it Like I said, you'll have probably have an icon up here Which you can just you know click on and then this thing will come up basically it just goes through and Allows you to create it take a screenshot and what's great about this is it allows you to go through and actually edit The screenshot after you before you take it so you can go through and like draw an arrow on it So you can draw arrows so you can do annotations. We can do a box here You can do text you can go through like if you wanted to create like a step-by-step thing you type this thing one that actually I Think is this one here like let's do one two Three so you got to do I guess do step one step two step three It's really really cool And there's just a ton of stuff here you can do and then you just go ahead and hit save And it would go through and allow you to you know save it wherever you want to save it and that's it That is really cool. There's just a ton of stuff that you can do with it And it's definitely something that I'm gonna be attempting to Assign to a keybinding so it's gonna be really cool. The final app for this month is called keybase now Keybase is a private messaging application and you're probably wondering Matt We have like a dozen of these things. Why do we need another one? Nobody's on keybase and that's Precisely true, but it's actually really good and actually and I'm as I was gonna say actually again But it's fairly unique. You can't be actually fairly unique either. You're unique. You're unique or you're not unique It's fairly original. I should say it put it that way. It has a ton of cool features. So the chat mechanism of it is fairly You know Standard right? It's just a chat app. It doesn't do video. It doesn't do audio. All it does is Chat in terms of communicating. That's all it does, but it has other features So for example, it has a secure file service and end encrypted and it is open source and how How it does this I don't know but that keybase allows you 250 gigabytes of free storage And now this is I couldn't find we couldn't find this on the website This actually came from another another source, but as far as we can tell between Zany and I It's 250 gigabytes and you can actually get another 50 gigabytes through a Secure chat or something like a sec if like a team chat or whatever It's just insane, right? So just the amount of storage that you get it also handles has its own cryptocurrency So you can send crypto between people you're chatting with it has a team aspect So kind of similar to like slack and stuff like that. It's not as full feature to slack But it also does that it has a built-in wallet. It does a lot of get stuff. There are a ton of other features as well It's really really cool. Now like I said, there's nobody that actually uses this thing So it may not be as useful as it could possibly be if it was more You know popular But it's definitely something you should download to check out because it's really really cool and it's really that even if you Just use it as a place to store some files It's really cool that you fact that you get that much storage now like I said, we couldn't verify that amount of Storage on their website. It doesn't actually say but if you search for how much storage Do you get in keybase the answer comes out to 250 gigabytes and it came from multiple sources? So we can assume that it's a correct. So anyways That is keybase and those are our five apps for this month Like I said before if you have an app that you'd like to see on this list Make sure you leave it in the comments section below if you've used any of these apps or if you find if you found any of these apps Interesting enough to download. Let me know in the comments below. 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