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Pext is a Swiss Army knife tool for Linux that resides in your desktop environment's tray and provides quick access to an App Launcher, weather reports, emoji copy/paste and streaming radio stations.

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The lightweight design using Python3 keep system resource use tiny while providing fantastic response times to user input

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Built and packaged natively for Windows, MacOS and Linux with in app alerts to download and install new releases

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Pext is still finding its identity but I love the minimal resource usage and responsiveness and I think the plug-in capability makes it an attractive platform for others to innovate upon.
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