simple tool to work around common problems in Wine

winetricks

simple tool to work around common problems in Wine

Winetricks lets you install missing DLLs or tweak various Wine settings individually. It also has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically.
Queries/alters process' scheduling policy and CPU affinity

schedtool

Queries/alters process' scheduling policy and CPU affinity

Schedtool can query or alter a process' scheduling policy in Linux, specifically assigning SCHED_NORMAL, _FIFO, _RR, _BATCH, _ISO or _IDLEPRIO. It can set static priority for _FIFO and _RR. Setting CPU-affinity and (re)nicing is also possible, making schedtool the definitive interface to Linux scheduler.
tmux, zsh, vim, ipython

powerline

prompt and statusline utility

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
utility to configure software sources

pmk

utility to configure software sources

transitional dummy package

ttf-adf-oldania

transitional dummy package

This is the Oldania font of the Arkandis Digital Foundry, a modern gothic typeface.
3D chess game

pouetchess

3D chess game