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Command Center Guide

Your Linux workstation, under control.

Your Git repositories, the Commander Toolbox installers, dotfiles and Home Manager, backups and restores,
configuration files, services, and system health, in one desktop app.

Runs locally as your normal user · No account · No cloud service · No telemetry

Note

This wiki is written for Command Center 0.7.1. Check your version under Settings → About & updates.

🔍 The one rule: you see every command first

Command Center never runs anything behind your back. Every action that changes your system opens a review first. The review shows the exact command and the folder it runs in, and nothing starts until you confirm. Results are kept in Activity.

Tip

Read How Commands Run once. It explains the review, running jobs side by side, stopping jobs, and what the app does on its own (only read-only checks).

🏁 Quick start

1. 📦 Install Command Center and launch it from your application menu.
2. 🧙 Follow the setup wizard: choose your repository folders, detect your dotfiles, Home Manager and backup helpers, then check what's installed. See Getting Started.
3. 📂 Open Repositories to see every project and its status.
4. 🧰 Open Toolbox, pick a tool and choose Review & run.
5. ⌨️ Press Ctrl+K anywhere to jump to a page, repository or quick action.

🗺️ What can it do?

📊 Dashboard & Needs Attention See repositories, backups, configuration and health at a glance, launch your own quick actions, and see everything that wants your action in one list.	📂 Repositories Find all your Git projects, review changes, stage, commit, branch, stash, fetch/pull/push, and run project tasks.
🧰 Toolbox & Terminal Browse and run the 215 Commander Toolbox installers and your own personal tools, and answer their prompts inside the app.	🔁 Workflows & Machine Profiles Save multi-step maintenance routines and new-machine setup recipes.
🗄️ Backup & Restore Run backups, browse Restic snapshots, find every saved version of a file, restore files, schedule backups, and prove recovery works.	🔄 System Sync Review dotfiles changes, then build and apply Home Manager.
🎛️ Configuration Edit Ghostty and Fastfetch with visual controls, a preview, validation and history.	🩺 Health, Services & Inventory Check disks, failed services, updates, and installed tools; manage user services.
🕒 Activity & Change Timeline See every command's output and result, and search what changed and when.	⚙️ Settings Connect your setup, customize the app, and move it to another machine.

📚 More

🚚 Moving to a New Machine	Carry your whole setup to another computer with a setup bundle.
🔒 Your Data & Privacy	What's stored, where, and what the app never does on its own.
🛟 Troubleshooting & FAQ	Fixes for common problems.
🐛 Open an issue	Found a bug or have an idea? Let us know.