TuxPulse

TuxPulse is a desktop maintenance toolkit for Debian/Ubuntu-based systems.

Main features

• System update
• System cleanup
• Flatpak package update
• systemd logs cleanup
• thumbnail cleanup
• live monitoring dashboard
• modern graphical disk analysis
• kernel analysis and suggested old-kernel removal
• install apps from catalog
• bilingual interface: English / Romanian (in dev)

🚀 New Features

UI

Dashboard

Maintenance

Disk

Kernel

Cleaner

🧹 Improved Cleaner\

🔧 Unified Action System
✔ Main button logically renamed: Run action
✔ Functions integrated into the list:
✔ Remove orphan packages
✔ Vacuum journal (7 days)\

🧠 Smart Cleanup (cross-distro)
✔ Debian/Ubuntu → apt autoremove\

Startup

Services

Packages

Installer

🛒 Fully integrated App Store
Install apps by category (Browsers, Development, Multimedia, System Tools)
Dual support:
✔ Native packages (apt, pacman, dnf, zypper)
✔ Flatpak (automatic fallback)
✔ Live app search
✔ Multiple installation (bulk install)\

🔄 Application Management
✔ Install applications
✔ Remove applications
✔ Update individual applications
✔ Bulk update
✔ Detection of already installed applications\

🎯 Smart Source Selection
✔ Automatic deactivation of “Native” if the application does not exist in the repository
✔ Smart fallback to Flatpak
✔ Avoid installation errors\

🔁 Auto Refresh UI
Automatic refresh after:
✔ install
✔ remove
✔ update
Eliminates the need to restart the application
Accurate real-time visual status\

🎨 Improved UI
✔ Checkboxes visible in dark mode (white / light green)
✔ Clearer interface for application selection
✔ Dedicated buttons per application\

Language: [En]/[Ro]

🔐 Enterprise Architecture

🧱 Root Helper Service
✔ Complete UI/root separation
✔ Command execution via secure daemon
✔ Removal of pkexec dependency\

🛡️ Security Hardening
✔ Strict command validation
✔ Controlled execution via package manager
✔ Protection against unauthorized execution\

📜 Audit Logging
Complete log:
✔ user
✔ executed command
✔ output
Location: /var/log/tuxpulse.log\

🧪 Improvements
✔ Improved overall stability
✔ Complete removal of scheduler (unstable across distros)
✔ Reduced command execution errors
✔ Better integration with Flatpak\

🐞 Bug Fixes
✔ Fixed scheduler import crash
✔ Fixed pkexec incompatibility with VSCode / container
✔ Fixed Installer UI (incorrect button states)
✔ Fixed invalid source selection
✔ Fixed refresh after installation/uninstallation
✔ Fixed dark mode checkbox visibility\

Dependencies

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install python3 python3-pyqt5 python3-psutil python3-matplotlib policykit-1 | policykid

Run from source

Debian/Ubuntu

python3 app/main.py

Build .deb

chmod +x build_deb.sh
./build_deb.sh

Notes

• Administrative actions use pkexec.
• Kernel cleanup removes only the packages suggested by the built-in analyzer. Review them before deletion.
• Full Maintenance uses a single pkexec session, so the admin password should be requested once.
• Startup and Services tabs are read-only in this preview.
• Cleaner can wipe user cache targets directly and root targets through pkexec.

Custom icon

Place your PNG icon here before building:

assets/tuxpulse.png

The build script copies it to:

packaging/deb/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/tuxpulse.png