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Toolbox and Terminal
215 Commander Toolbox installers, your own tools, and the built-in terminal.
Toolbox brings the Commander Toolbox installers into the app: 215 actions across Applications Setup, Gaming, Security, System Setup and Utilities. They're the same scripts, folders and menus as the terminal version, with a graphical browser on top.
- Open a category, then its sub-folders. Use the breadcrumbs or Up to go back.
- Search within the current folder (and everything inside it). Choose All tools to search the whole catalog.
- ★ Favorites shows only the tools you've starred. Star a tool with the ★ button on its detail panel. Favorites are saved with your app data and included in setup bundles.
- Available on this machine hides tools whose requirements aren't met (wrong distribution, missing interpreter…). Untick it to see everything.
- From a search result, Open containing folder jumps to the tool's menu.
Selecting a tool shows its description, what kind of task it is (installation, file changes, package manager…), whether it's available, and when you last ran it.
Expand Quick setup for the most common jobs. Choose What are you setting up? (a Myfish shell, a dotfiles configuration, or an application), then Choose a setup, and the app opens that tool ready to run.
- Choose Run tools in: the embedded terminal (inside the app) or external (the terminal app chosen in Settings).
- Click Review & run. The review shows the exact script and folder.
- Confirm. Installer questions, menus and
sudopassword prompts appear in the terminal exactly as they would in the terminal version, and you answer them there.
Note
The app checks compatibility again just before starting. Toolbox scripts keep their own safety checks and confirmations.
The Terminal page is a real terminal session for the running installer or task:
- Type, answer prompts and use arrow-key menus as usual. It resizes with the window.
- Stop workflow cancels the running command.
- Save output writes the session to a private file in the app's data folder. Otherwise output is kept only in memory (up to 1 MB) and disappears when you close the app. What you type, including passwords, is never recorded.
- Only one embedded session runs at a time. For image graphics or a second session, use an external terminal.
Return to a session from the Terminal page or its entry in Activity.
Add your own tools alongside the catalog: scroll to Personal tools at the bottom of Toolbox and click Add personal tool.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Name, description | How it appears in the list |
| Folder | Where it sits, for example Maintenance/Backups (nested folders work) |
| Command | The program and arguments |
| Working folder | Where it runs |
| Required executable | A program that must be installed (checked, not installed for you) |
| Run in | Embedded, External or Background |
| Inputs | Values to ask for each time (text, a folder, or a Git repository folder) |
Inputs let one tool work on whatever you choose. Put a placeholder as a whole argument, for example:
git -C {repo} status
Add an input named repo of type Repository folder. When you run the tool, the app asks you to pick a repository, checks it, and shows the finished command for review. Values are passed exactly as typed, with no shell expansion. For pipes or shell functions, point the tool at a script or use a Fish/Bash quick action.
Expand Toolbox Updates at the top of Toolbox. Checking never installs anything.
- Check catalog updates compares the bundled Toolbox version with the latest on GitHub and links to the differences. The catalog is built into the app, so taking a newer one means rebuilding it. The panel shows the command for source installs; package users get it with the next release.
- Check installed-tool updates lists pending updates by source: Arch packages (using a fresh check where possible, clearly marked if it's the cached list), Flatpak (user and system), and AUR/foreign packages (listed, not checked).
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Review & update runs the updater you choose: your Fish
full-upgradefunction, Topgrade, Garuda's updater, a plain Arch update, or Flatpak. It runs in a terminal with the normal prompts. Pick one broad updater or individual ones, not both, so updates don't run twice.
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