Possibly my light/dark mode scripts. They change my Plasma theme, which is honestly most of the job, but also set the matching GTK theme, set the new theme in running Konsole sessions, do a bunch of manual sed
edits on conf files for applications that don’t follow system theming, finally restarting plasmashell
to clean up the occasional edge case where a tray icon is supposed to follow the theme but doesn’t.
It’s not for everyone, but if “collection of perl scripts” sounds like your jam, GnuPod still works for a CLI option.
I don’t think these things are universal across software, but you can often put -f
on its own, separate from other flags, or get in the habit of using the long --force
flag.
Too many options to remember and look up every time
This is a good use case for shell aliases. If you can identify a few of your use cases, you can give each bundle of options its own command.
AlternativeTo lists open source alternatives to AlternativeTo.
Whose entire life was in a… what?