Utilities
Athena OS has several commands and applications that could be useful for its usage. In Athena OS they can be accessed by Tool Recipe button. They can vary between Athena Arch and Athena Nix.
| Command | Description | Athena Arch | Athena Nix |
|---|---|---|---|
| armcord | Cross-platform, all-in-one voice and text chat privacy-based Discord application. | X | X |
| asciinema | Record and share your terminal sessions. | X | X |
| athena-theme-tweak | Switch to different Athena themes. | X | |
| athena-welcome | Welcome application that allows main security tools installation and mirrorlist update. | X | X |
| bashtop | Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. | X | |
| bat | A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. | X | X |
| bfetch | SuperB general-purpose fetch displayer. | X | X |
| bless | High-quality, full-featured hex editor. | X | X |
| btrfs-assistant | GUI management tool to make managing a Btrfs filesystem easier. | X | |
| chat-gpt | ChatGPT Desktop application. | X | |
| codium | Community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of VS Code. | X | X |
| convert | Convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, and much more. | X | X |
| downgrade | Downgrade one (or multiple) packages by using the pacman cache or the Arch Rollback Machine. | X | |
| git | Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system. | X | X |
| la | An lsd -a alias. | X | X |
| ll | An lsd -alFh alias. | X | X |
| lsd | An ls command with a lot of pretty colors and some other stuff. | X | X |
| nano | Simple terminal-based text editor. | X | X |
| ncdu | Check which directories are using your disk space. | X | X |
| neofetch | CLI system information tool written in BASH. | X | X |
| nvim | Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability. | X | X |
| octopi | A powerful Pacman (Package Manager) front end using Qt libs. | X | |
| orca | Screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via speech and refreshable braille. | X | X |
| pacman | Arch Linux package manager. | X | |
| pactree | Package dependency tree viewer. | X | |
| paru | Pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction. | X | |
| pfetch | A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh. | X | X |
| probe | Probe for hardware, check operability and find drivers. | X | X |
| pywhat | Identify anything. It easily lets you identifying emails, IP addresses, and more. | X | |
| timeline | Cross-platform application for displaying and navigating events on a timeline. | X | X |
| tmux | Terminal multiplexer that allow you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them and reattach them to a different terminal. | X | X |
| tree | Recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files. | X | X |
| vim | Highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. | X | |
| vnstat | Console-based network traffic monitor. | X | X |
| xcp | An extended cp command. | X | X |
| z | A smarter cd command for your terminal. | X | X |
Just for fun.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| cmatrix | Scrolling Matrix like screen in the terminal. |
| cowsay | Generate an ASCII picture of a cow saying something provided by the user. |
| devil | Quotes by devil eyes. |
| figlet | Print input using large characters made up of ordinary screen characters. |
| fortune | Print a random, hopefully interesting, adage. |
| lolcat | Concatenate files, or standard input, to standard output, and add rainbow coloring to it. |
| nyancat | Animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. |
| sl | A steam locomotive running across your screen. Next time write ls in a good manner. |
| toilet | Print text using large characters made of smaller characters. |
| train | Choo-choo! |