Lhasa is a replacement for the Unix LHa tool, for decompressing .lzh (LHA / LHarc) and .lzs (LArc) archives. The backend for the tool is a library, so that it can be reused for other purposes. Lhasa aims to be compatible with as many types of .lzh/lzs archives as possible. It also aims to generate the same output as the (non-free) Unix lha tool, so that it will act as a free drop-in replacement.

lbzip2 is a multi-threaded compression utility with support for the bzip2 compressed file format. lbzip2 can process standard bz2 files in parallel. It uses POSIX threading model (pthreads), which allows it to take full advantage of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems. It has been proven to scale linearly, even to over one hundred processor cores. lbzip2 is fully compatible with bzip2 – both at file format and command line level.

Tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz creates, lists, and extracts archives in a simplified and safer variant of the POSIX pax format compressed with lzip, keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip members. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is fully backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz can append files to the end of such compressed archives.

A data compression/decompression library for embedded/real-time systems.

Among its features are:

• Low memory usage (as low as 50 bytes.) It is useful for some cases with less than 50 bytes, and useful for many general cases with less than 300 bytes.

• Incremental, bounded CPU use. It can be used to chew on input data in arbitrarily tiny bites. This is a useful property in hard real-time environments.

• Can use either static or dynamic memory allocation.

LZFSE is a Lempel-Ziv style data compression algorithm using Finite State Entropy coding. It targets similar compression rates at higher compression and decompression speed compared to Deflate using Zlib.

Zip is a compression and file packaging/archive utility. Zip is useful for packaging a set of files for distribution, for archiving files, and for saving disk space by temporarily compressing unused files or directories. Zip puts one or more compressed files into a single ZIP archive, along with information about the files (name, path, date, time of last modification, protection, and check information to verify file integrity). An entire directory structure can be packed into a ZIP archive with a single command.

Zip has one compression method (deflation) and can also store files without compression. Zip automatically chooses the better of the two for each file. Compression ratios of 2:1 to 3:1 are common for text files.

Zopfli Compression Algorithm is a compression library programmed in C to perform very good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression. ZopfliCompress supports the deflate, gzip and zlib output formats. This library can only compress, not decompress; existing zlib or deflate libraries can decompress the data.

(N)compress provides the original compress and uncompress programs that used to be the de facto UNIX standard for compressing and uncompressing files. These programs implement a fast, simple Lempel-Ziv (LZW) file compression algorithm.

UCL implements a number of compression algorithms that achieve an excellent compression ratio while allowing fast decompression. Decompression requires no additional memory.

Compared to LZO, the UCL algorithms achieve a better compression ratio but decompression is a little bit slower.

gzstream is a small library for providing zlib functionality in a C++ iostream.

ZZipLib is a library based on zlib for accessing zip files.

This package provides the reference implementation of Brotli, a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.

The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932.

This package provides a script to unpack self-extracting archives generated by makeself or mojo without running the possibly untrusted extraction shell script.

Zstandard (zstd) is a lossless compression algorithm that combines very fast operation with a compression ratio comparable to that of zlib. In most scenarios, both compression and decompression can be performed in ‘real time’. The compressor can be configured to provide the most suitable trade-off between compression ratio and speed, without affecting decompression speed.

QuaZIP is a simple C++ wrapper over Gilles Vollant's ZIP/UNZIP package that can be used to access ZIP archives. It uses Trolltech's Qt toolkit.

QuaZIP allows you to access files inside ZIP archives using QIODevice API, and that means that you can also use QTextStream, QDataStream or whatever you would like to use on your zipped files.

QuaZIP provides complete abstraction of the ZIP/UNZIP API, for both reading from and writing to ZIP archives.

minizip-ng is a zip manipulation library written in C, forked from the zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.

Blosc is a high performance compressor optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() system call. Blosc is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations.

The existing XZ Utils provide great compression in the .xz file format, but they produce just one big block of compressed data. Pixz instead produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible and can compress in parallel. This is especially useful for large tarballs.

Fcrackzip is a Zip file password cracker.

GNU Gzip provides data compression and decompression utilities; the typical extension is ".gz". Unlike the "zip" format, it compresses a single file; as a result, it is often used in conjunction with "tar", resulting in ".tar.gz" or ".tgz", etc.

Picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, suitable for use with window managers that do not provide compositing.

Picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr.

Compton is a compositor for the Xorg display server and a for of xcompmgr-dana, which implements some changes like:

• OpenGL backend (--backend glx), in addition to the old X Render backend.

• Inactive window transparency (-i) and dimming (--inactive-dim).

• Menu transparency (-m, thanks to Dana).

• Shadows are now enabled for argb windows, e.g terminals with transparency

• Removed serverside shadows (and simple compositing) to clean the code, the only option that remains is clientside shadows.

• Configuration files (see the man page for more details).

• Colored shadows (--shadow-[red/green/blue]).

• A new fade system.

• VSync support (not always working).

• Blur of background of transparent windows, window color inversion (bad in performance).

• Some more options...

This package helps to manage personal configuration files across multiple machines.

Konsave is CLI that lets you backup your dotfiles and switch to other ones. Features:

• storing configurations in profiles

• exporting profiles to '.knsv' files

• import profiles from '.knsv' files

• official support for KDE Plasma