List of applications/Other
Contents
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1 Others
- 1.1 Organization
- 1.2 Education
- 1.3 Accessibility
- 1.4 Display managers
- 1.5 Desktop environments
Others
Organization
Personal information managers
These applications support time, task and contacts management.
- Evolution — Personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Part of gnome-extra.
- Kontact — Integrated solution to your personal information management.
- Osmo — GTK+ personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.
- SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups with Lightning — Extension to SeaMonkey that provides calendar and task support.
- Thunderbird with Lightning — Extension to Mozilla Thunderbird that provides calendar and task support.
Time management
Console
- Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)
- khal — Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)
- mail2rem — Small script for importing *.ics calendars from Maildir to Remind calendar.
- Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.
- pcal — A tool to create pdf calendars from pcal input which can be exported by some calendar programs.
- Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.
- When — Simple personal calendar program.
Graphical
- chinese-calendar — Chinese traditional calendar for Ubuntu Kylin.
- Day Planner — Program designed to help you easily plan and manage your time. It can manage appointments, birthdays and more.
- Deepin Calendar — Calendar application for Deepin.
- etmtk (Event and Task Manager) — Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.
- GNOME Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME.
- KOrganizer — Calendar and scheduling program, part of kdepim.
- Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app for Nextcloud.
- Orage — GTK+ calendar and task manager often seen integrated with Xfce.
- Outspline — Extensible outliner with advanced time management features, supporting events with complex recurrence schemes.
- Pantheon Calendar — Desktop calendar app designed for elementary OS.
- TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
Time trackers
- flow — Pomodoro app that blocks distractions while you work.
- Gnomato — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
- GNOME Break Timer — Keeps track of how much you are using the computer, and it reminds you to take regular breaks.
- GNOME Clocks — Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality.
- GNOME Pomodoro — Time management utility for GNOME based on the Pomodoro Technique.
- Hamster — Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.
- Kapow — Punch clock to track time spent on projects.
- Kronometer — Stopwatch application for KDE.
- KTeaTime — Handy timer for steeping tea.
- Orage Globaltime — Show clocks from different countries.
- RSIBreak — Takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI).
- Safe Eyes — Tool to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).
- Tider — Lightweight time tracking application (GTK+)
- Tomate — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
- Tomato — Simple, usable and efficient pomodoro app designed for elementaryOS.
- Tomighty — Desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
- http://tomighty.org/ || tomightyAUR
- Workrave — Program that assists in the recovery and prevention of RSI.
Task management
Console
- DevTodo — Small command line application for maintaining lists of tasks.
- Taskbook — Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
- Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.
- todoman — Command-line To-do list manager (supports CalDAV)
- Todo.txt — Small command-line To-do manager.
- TuDu — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.
Graphical
- Effitask — Graphical task manager, based on the Todo.txt format.
- Getting Things GNOME! — Personal tasks and TODO list items organizer for GNOME inspired by the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.
- Go For It! — Simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task. To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format.
- GNOME To Do — Personal task manager for GNOME.
- Nextcloud Tasks — Tasks app for Nextcloud.
- ptask — GTK+ task manager based on Taskwarrior.
- QTodoTxt — UI client for todo.txt files.
- Task Coach — Simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists.
- TaskUnifier — Task management application which enables you to create and organize your tasks.
- Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C#.
- Zanshin — To-do management application based on Akonadi.
Contacts management
- GNOME Contacts — Contacts manager for GNOME.
- KAddressBook — Address book manager for KDE.
- LDAP Administration Tool — Browse LDAP-based directories and add/edit/delete entries contained within.
- Nextcloud Contacts — Contacts app for Nextcloud.
- phpLDAPadmin — LDAP client webapp. Its hierarchical tree-viewer and advanced search functionality make it intuitive to browse and administer your LDAP directory.
Financial management
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of accounting software.
- Beancount — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
- BillReminder — Small and quick accounting application designed to allow for easy tracking of bills.
- esniper — Simple, lightweight tool for sniping eBay auctions.
- GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.
- Grisbi — Personal finance system which manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations.
- http://www.grisbi.org/ || grisbiAUR
- HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
- KMyMoney — Personal finance manager that operates in a similar way to Microsoft Money. It supports different account types, categorisation of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank accounts and import/export to the “QIF” file format.
- Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
- hledger — An accounting program for tracking money, time, or any other commodity, using double-entry accounting and a simple, editable file format. hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with ledger.
- Manager Accounting — Manager is free accounting software for small business.
- Money Manager EX — An easy-to-use personal finance suite
- Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.
- Odoo — Open source ERP system purely in Python. Previously known as OpenERP.
- https://www.odoo.com/ || odooAUR
Cryptocurrency
- ARK Desktop Wallet — Wallet for ARK.
- Bitcoin Core — Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.
- Cointop — Terminal based application for tracking cryptocurrencies.
- https://cointop.sh/ || cointopAUR
- Electrum — Lightweight Bitcoin client.
- Etherwall — Ethereum wallet.
- Exodus — All-in-one proprietary application to secure, manage, and exchange blockchain assets. Based on the Electron platform.
- https://www.exodus.io/ || exodusAUR
- Mist — Ethereum Dapp browser.
Project management
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of project management software.
- Calligra Plan — Project management application, which is intended for managing moderately large projects with multiple resources.
- GanttProject — Project scheduling application featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring.
- Planner — Project management application for GNOME.
- ProjectLibre — Project management software alternative to Microsoft Project.
- TaskJuggler — Modern and powerful project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools.
Education
See also List of games#Education.
Flashcards
See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software.
- Anki — Intelligent spaced-repetition memory training program.
- iGNUit — Memorization aid based on the Leitner flashcard system.
- jVLT — Vocabulary learning tool.
- KWordQuiz — Tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. Part of kdeedu.
- Mnemosyne — Flash-card tool which optimizes your learning process.
- Parley — Program to help you memorize things. It uses the spaced repetition learning method, also known as flash cards. Part of kdeedu.
- Pauker — Flash card based learning tool using shortterm and longterm memory training.
Touch typing
Console
- Dvorak 7min — Simple ncurses-based typing tutor for those trying to become fluent with the Dvorak keyboard layout.
- DvorakNG — Dvorak typing tutor. It's heavily based on Dvorak7min, but adds many improvements.
- GNU Typist — Universal typing tutor.
- psani-profi — Program that will teach you touchtyping (Czech).
- Typing Trainer — ncurses-based typing trainer program that knows the English and Hungarian languages.
- https://szit.hu/tpgt/ || tpgtAUR
- Typespeed — Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS.
Graphical
- Amphetype — Layout-agnostic typing program aimed at people who don't need an on-screen keyboard, but would still like to improve their speed and accuracy.
- Klavaro — Teaching touch typing that intends to be keyboard and language independent.
- TIPP10 — Intelligent touch typing tutor.
- TypingTest — Typing test desktop program with a large amount of customization.
Recipe management
- GNOME Recipes — Recipe management application for GNOME.
- Gourmet — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.
- KRecipes — KDE application designed to make organizing your personal recipes collection fast and easy.
Education management engines
- Moodle — Moodle is a open-source software learning management system.
- https://moodle.org/ || moodleAUR
Accessibility
See Accessibility for tips on operating the desktop and Category:Accessibility for all available articles. See also On-screen keyboards.
Speech synthesizers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of speech synthesizers and listening comparison of the different engines.
- Ekho — Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) software for Cantonese, Mandarin, Zhaoan Hakka, Tibetan, Ngangien and Korean.
- eSpeak — Compact speech synthesizer for more than 50 languages.
- eSpeak NG — Fork of eSpeak (due to inactivity of original maintainer).
- Festival — General framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech.
- Flite — Lightweight speech synthesis engine.
- Gespeaker — GTK+ frontend for espeak. It allows you to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed.
- KMouth — Speech synthesizer frontend which enables persons that cannot speak to let their computer speak.
- MaryTTS — Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis platform written in Java.
- http://mary.dfki.de/ || maryttsAUR
- MBROLA — Proprietary phonemes-to-audio program which supports more than 70 languages. Mbrola-voices can also be used with eSpeak.
- Mimic — Text-to-speech voice synthesis from the Mycroft project (based on Flite).
- Open JTalk — Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system.
- Orca — Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, using eSpeak (via Speech Dispatcher).
- SOPS — Provides a simple way to write custom plugins for screen reader Orca.
- Speech Dispatcher — Common interface to speech synthesis. It has backends for eSpeak, Festival, and a few other speech synthesizers.
- SVOX Pico — The text-to-speech engine used on Android phones. (Available languages are en-US, en-GB, de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR and it-IT)
Speech recognition
See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.
- Blather — Speech recognizer that will run commands when a user speaks preset commands.
- FreeSpeech — Desktop application front-end for PocketSphinx dictation, voice transcription, and realtime speech recognition.
- Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.
- Kaldi — Speech recognition toolkit.
- Kalliope — Modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.
- Kaylee — Somewhat fancy voice command recognition program that performs actions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences.
- Mycroft — Hackable voice assistant.
- Simon — Speech recognition program that can replace your mouse and keyboard.
- https://simon.kde.org/ || simonAUR
Screen magnifiers
- KMag — Small KDE utility to magnify a part of the screen.
- Virtual Magnifying Glass — Simple, customizable and easy-to-use screen magnification tool.
- xzoom — Zoom, rotate and mirror area of X display.
Mouse
- Easystroke — Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.
- KMouseTool — Clicks the mouse whenever the mouse cursor pauses briefly. It was designed to help those with repetitive strain injuries, for whom pressing buttons hurts.
- Mousetweaks — Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices.
Display managers
See the main article: Display manager#List of display managers.
Desktop environments
See the main article: Desktop environment#List of desktop environments.
Window managers
Console
See also List of applications/Utilities#Terminal multiplexers, which offer some of the functions of window managers for the console.
- twin — Text-mode window manager.
- Wmutils — A set of tools for X windows manipulation.
Graphical
See the main article: Window manager#List of window managers.
Composite managers
See the main article: Xorg#List of composite managers.
Window tilers
- PyWO — Allows you to easily organize windows on the desktop using keyboard shortcuts.
- https://code.google.com/archive/p/pywo/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- QuickTile — Lightweight standalone alternative to Compiz Grid plugin.
- wumwum — The Window Manager manager. It can turn emwh compliant window managers into a tiling window manager while retaining all initial functionalities.
Taskbars
See also Wikipedia:Taskbar.
- Avant Window Navigator — Lightweight dock which sits at the bottom of the screen.
- Bmpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant panel.
- Cairo-Dock — Highly customizable dock and launcher application.
- Docky — Full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
- fbpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel.
- GNOME Panel — Panel included in the GNOME Flashback desktop.
- Latte — Dock based on Plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids.
- LXPanel — Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.
- MATE Panel — Panel included in the MATE desktop.
- PerlPanel — The ideal accompaniment to a light-weight Window Manager such as OpenBox, or a desktop-drawing program like iDesk.
- PyPanel — Lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C.
- Tint2 — Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.
- Vala Panel — Gtk3 panel for compositing window managers
- Xfce Panel — Panel included in the Xfce desktop.
- xmobar — A lightweight, text-based, status bar written in Haskell.
System tray
- AllTray — Dock other applications into the system tray (notification area).
- Docker — Docking application which acts as a system tray.
- KDocker — Dock any application in the system tray (notification area).
- Stalonetray — Stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for Xorg. It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.
- Trayer — Lightweight GTK+-based system tray (notification area).
Application launchers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.
- Albert — Sophisticated, plugin based standalone keyboard launcher.
- Application Finder — Easy-to-use application launcher from Xfce.
- Bashrun2 — Provides a different, barebones approach to a run dialog, using a specialized Bash session within a small xterm window.
- dmenu — Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.
- dmenu-extended — Extension to dmenu for quickly opening files and folders.
- dmenu-launch — Simple dmenu-based application launcher. Launches binaries and XDG shortcuts.
- dmenu2 — Fork of dmenu with many useful patches applied and additional options like screen select, dim or opacity change.
- dswitcher — dmenu-based window switcher that works regardless of workspace or minimization.
- Fehlstart — Small GTK+-based application launcher.
- Gmrun — Lightweight GTK+-based application launcher, with the ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features.
- GNOME Do — Application launcher inspired by Quicksilver with many plugins, originally developed for the GNOME desktop.
- Gnome-Pie — Circular application launcher (pie menu) for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices.
- j4-dmenu-desktop — Very fast dmenu application launcher.
- higgins — Desktop agnostic application launcher, file finder, calculator and more. Plugin based and freely and easily extendable via user-written plugins
- Kupfer — Convenient command and access tool for the GNOME desktop that can launch applications, open documents and access different types of objects and act on them.
- launch — Simple command for launching applications from a terminal emulator.
- Launchy — Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.
- Lighthouse — Simple scriptable popup dialog to run on X.
- rofi — Popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and pango.
- slingshot — Application launcher has a clear look, part of pantheon desktop environment.
- Runa — Fast and light dmenu-driven desktop application launcher, suitable for use standalone, integrated into file manager context menus, or as an 'xdg-open' replacement. Favourite applications can also be configured.
- Synapse — Semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.
- Whippet — Launcher and xdg-open replacement for control freaks. Opens files and URLs with applications associated by name and/or mimetype. Applications and associations may be customized using an SQLite database. Uses dmenu to manage its menus.
- Alacarte — Add or remove applications from the main menu.
- AppEditor — Edit application entries in the application menu.
- Ezame — Desktop and menu file editor.
- KMenuEdit — Edit one of the KDE application launchers.
- lxmed — Application menu editor written in Java.
- MenuLibre — Advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface.
- Meow — Application menu editor written in Java.
- Mozo — Change which applications are shown on the main menu.
Wallpaper setters
See also Wikipedia:Wallpaper (computing).
- bgs — An extremely fast and small background setter for X based on imlib2.
- esetroot — Eterm's root background setter, packaged separately.
- feh — A lightweight and powerful image viewer that can also be used to manage the desktop wallpaper.
- habak — A background changing app.
- hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.
- HydraPaper — Gtk utility to set two different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME.
- Nitrogen — A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.
- pybgsetter — Multi-backend (hsetroot, Esetroot, habak, feh) to set desktop wallpaper.
- pywal — Changes the wallpaper and creates matching colorschemes for various applications (rofi, i3, termials)
- Variety — Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
- xli — An image display program for X.
display
utility from imagemagick or gm display
from graphicsmagick. E.g.: display -backdrop -background '#3f3f3f' -flatten -window root image
.Virtual desktop pagers
See also Wikipedia:Pager (GUI).
- bbpager — Dockable pager for blackbox and other window managers.
- fbpager — Virtual desktop pager for fluxbox.
- IPager — A configurable pager with transparency, originally developed for Fluxbox.
- Neap — An non-intrusive and light pager that runs in the notification area of your panel.
- Netwmpager — A NetWM/EWMH compatible pager.
Desktop widgets
- gDesklets — System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop.
- GPhotoFrame — Photo frame gadget for the GNOME Desktop.
- KRuler — Displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Part of kdegraphics.
- Screenlets — Widget framework that consists of small owner-drawn applications.
Desktop notifications
See: Notification servers.
Clipboard managers
See Clipboard#Managers.