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Debian Desktop Optimizer v1.0.0

First stable release.

Debian Desktop Optimizer removes unnecessary language packs, fonts, input methods,
games, and optional desktop components from a freshly installed Debian system —
while keeping the languages you actually use, and never touching anything critical.

Highlights

First-run Wizard

A guided setup wizard launches on first run, detects your current locale, and walks
you through choosing which languages to keep and which optional components to remove.
Includes a classic watermark-style sidebar image and live analysis before any changes
are made.

Control Panel

A tab-based GUI for ongoing management after the initial setup:

  • Overview — system info at a glance: desktop environment, Debian version,
    architecture, locale, installed package count, disk usage, and how many packages
    can still be removed
  • Languages — view and manage installed language packs; mark languages to keep
  • Components — per-category removal of optional components; categories disappear
    once fully cleaned
  • Updates — update & upgrade the system, or remove unused packages with a single click
  • Logs — live log viewer, auto-refreshed when you switch to the tab
  • About — version and project info

Cleanup Categories

All categories are opt-in (unchecked by default):

Category Detection method
Games Auto-detected via dpkg Section: games — catches everything, not just GNOME games
Input Methods fcitx, fcitx5, uim, mozc, anthy, ibus-hangul, m17n-db
Spell Checkers aspell, hunspell, myspell, hyphen, mythes dictionaries
OCR Data tesseract-ocr-*, cuneiform
Speech Synthesis espeak-ng-data, speech-dispatcher, festival
Accessibility orca, brltty, xbrlapi, florence
Printing Support CUPS stack, system-config-printer, hplip, foomatic
Bluetooth bluez, bluetooth, blueman
Modem / Mobile Broadband modemmanager, ppp, pppoe
Server Packages apache2, nginx, postfix, exim4, samba, vsftpd, proftpd
Unused Documentation python3-doc, linux-doc, xorg-docs
Bloatware xterm, uxterm, xbiff, shotwell, mlterm

Safety

  • apt -s simulation runs before every operation
  • Critical system packages are protected by an explicit blocklist
  • A JSON rollback snapshot is saved before every change
  • autoremove runs after purge to clean up orphaned dependencies
  • Privileged operations use pkexec — the app never requires running as root

CLI

Full command-line interface for scripting and headless use:

ddo analyze          # show what would be removed
ddo dry-run          # simulate without removing
sudo ddo cleanup     # run cleanup
ddo list-languages   # list installed language packages
sudo ddo restore     # roll back the last operation

Single Instance

Launching a second instance shows a warning and exits. Stale locks left by a
crashed session are automatically cleaned up.

Installation

From .deb (recommended)

Download debian-desktop-optimizer_1.0.0-1_all.deb from the assets below, then:

sudo apt install ./debian-desktop-optimizer_1.0.0-1_all.deb

Requirements

  • Debian 13 (Trixie) or later
  • Python 3.13+
  • PyQt6
  • polkitd

From source

git clone https://github.com/apapamarkou/ddo.git
cd ddo
pip install -e ".[dev]"
ddo-gui

License

GPL-3.0-only — see LICENSE.

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