This page contains various suggested applications for the Xfce desktop environment. These applications do not require heavy dependencies and/or fit in the Xfce philosophy to be light on memory usage.

• Description: Vte based/gtk+-2 lightweight X-terminal
• Website: http://www.os-cillation.com
• Remarks: Xfce project

• Description: CLI-like GTK+2 application launcher with tab completion
• Website: http://www.bazon.net/mishoo/gmrun.epl

• Description: GTK+2 System information and benchmark tool
• Website: http://hardinfo.berlios.de/HomePage

• Description: Desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11
• Website: http://slim.berlios.de

• Description: A full-featured, yet light and fast word processor
• Website: http://www.abisource.com
• Remarks: Can pull *some* gnome dependencies (printing is based on libgnomeprint, for example.) Compile yourself to avoid them

• Description: A more-featured text/book writer with hypertext features and an integrated browser mode
• Website: http://www.texmacs.org
• Remarks: Though the name tells it, none of TeX or Emacs is required to get it compiled and running. TeXmacs is self-contained but needs guile-gtk for the interface. TeXmacs is in the overworks, and much of the internas (switching to cairo, etc.) and interface will change in the near future.

• Description: A free lightweight PDF document viewer
• Website: http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/

• Description: Spreadsheet application
• Website: http://www.gnumeric.org
• Remarks: Can pull *some* gnome dependencies (printing is based on libgnomeprint and mandatory, for example.) Compile yourself to avoid them

• Description: Document Processor (WYSIWYM frontend to LaTeX)
• Website: http://www.lyx.org/

• Description: A PDF viewer for X11
• Website: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf

• Description: A desktop wiki and outliner
• Website: http://zim-wiki.org/
• Remarks: Perl application

• Description: Self-contained desktop wiki
• Website: http://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/
• Self-modifying XHTML file

• Description: Slim but fully featured, GTK+ 2.x based Email Client (and News Reader)
• Website: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en
• Remarks: Can support gnome, if wished

• Description: Email Client, News Reader, Feed Reader, Calendar …
• Website: http://www.claws-mail.org
• Remarks: Formerly known as Sylpheed Claws, can publish calendar data to Orage.

• Description: A lightweight GTK+ feed reader
• Website: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

• Description: Lightweight GTK+ Bittorrent client
• Website: http://code.google.com/p/linkage/

• Description: Full-featured, GTK+ native Bittorrent client
• Website: http://deluge-torrent.org
• Remarks: python application

• Description: Lightweight Bittorrent client which makes it very attractive to fetch two or three torrents
• Website: http://www.transmissionbt.com

• Description: An instant messenger client for several protocols
• Website: http://pidgin.im
• Remarks: Formerly known as Gaim.

• Description: Graphical FTP client
• Website: http://www.gftp.org

• Description: A GUI for rsync
• Website: http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/

• Description: GTK+ 2 GUI for the Licq Instant Messenger
• Website: http://icqnd.sourceforge.net

• Description: A GTK+ web browser based on the Gecko engine
• Website: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp

• Description: A lightweight web browser based on WebKitGtk
• Website: http://software.twotoasts.de

• Description: A smbfs(samba) frontend, a GTK+ 2 rewrite of LinNeighborhood.
• Website: http://pyneighborhood.sourceforge.net
• Remarks: python application

• Description: A GTK+-2 based IRC client
• Website: http://www.xchat.org

• Description: The Xfce media player
• Website: http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfmedia
• Remarks: Xfce project

• Description: Graphical GTK+ MPD client (Music Player Daemon)
• Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfmpc
• Remarks: Xfce project

• Description: GTK+ XMMS2 client
• Website: http://abraca.xmms.se/

• Description: A simple GTK+-2 CD ripper and encoder
• Website: http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/

• Description: A fork and rewrite of Beep Media Player
• Website: http://audacious-media-player.org

• Description: The next-generation Beep Media Player
• Website: http://bmpx.backtrace.info/

• Description: GTK+ utility for editing MP2, MP3, MP4, FLAC, Ogg and other media tags
• Website: http://easytag.sourceforge.net

• Description: A lightweight GTK+ music manager (C, Gtk+, and sqlite.. !-)
• Screenshots: https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=204254
• Website: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46171

• Description: GTK+ media player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok
• Website: http://www.exaile.org/
• Remarks: python application

• Description: Editor for text-based subtitle files
• Website: http://home.gna.org/gaupol/

• Description: GTK+ MPD client
• Website: http://gimmix.berlios.de

• Description: Podcast manager that syncs with portable audio devices
• Website: http://gpodder.berlios.de
• Remarks: python application

• Description: Light weight music manager and player.
• Website: http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/
• Remarks: Based on the FOX toolkit, xine for audio and sqlite3 as the database backend.

• Description: Graveman! is a GTK+ frontend for cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, sox, flac, dvd+rw-format/dvd+rw-tools and cdrdao

• Website: http://graveman.tuxfamily.org

• Description: GTK+ media player
• Website: http://xinehq.de

• Description: GTK+ audio only player
• Website: http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet
• Remarks: python application

• Description: Elegant GTK+ MPD client
• Website: http://sonata.berlios.de
• Remarks: python application

• Description: A program to edit ID3 tags
• Website: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/

• Description: Simple and beautiful DVD ripping based on GStreamer and GTK+
• Website: http://thoggen.net/

• Description: A media player supporting a large number of multimedia formats
• Website: http://www.videolan.org

• Description: Image viewer
• Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/ristretto
• Remarks: Xfce project

• Description: (archived) Image viewer
• Website: http://comix.sourceforge.net/index.html

• Description: A diagramming tool
• Website: http://live.gnome.org/Dia

• Description: GTK+2 Color Selector
• Website: http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/

• Description: Minimalistic image viewer
• Website: http://gimmage.berlios.de

• Description: GNU Image Manipulation Program
• Website: http://www.gimp.org

• Description: An image browser for X
• Website: http://gqview.sourceforge.net

• Description: Full featured open source SVG editor
• Website: http://www.inkscape.org

• Description: Image viewer and editor
• Website: http://mirageiv.berlios.de/
• Remarks: python application

• Description: Fast and lightweight IDE
• Website: http://geany.uvena.de

• Description: Programming text editor
• Website: http://mooedit.sourceforge.net

• Description: Graphical diff and merge tool
• Website: http://meld.sourceforge.net/

• Description: Quick HTML pages creation with templates
• Website: http://sergejx.mysteria.cz/oxalis/

• Description: A free GTK+-based source code editor
• Website: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

• Description: Versatile editor/IDE
• Website: http://vim.sf.net

• Description: Lighweight xfce text editor
• Website: http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/
• Remarks: Xfce project

• Description: An archive manager for Xfce
• Website: http://squeeze.xfce.org
• Remarks: Xfce project

• Description: Simple archive manager
• Website: http://xarchiver.xfce.org
• Remarks: Xfce project

• Description: GTK+2 desktop search frontend
• Website: http://software.twotoasts.de/?page=catfish
• Remarks: python application

• Description: An “orthodox” two-pane file manager
• Website: http://emelfm2.net/

• Description: GTK+ based calculator
• Website: http://galculator.sourceforge.net

• Description: Comprehensive periodic table of elements
• Website: http://gperiodic.seul.org/

• Description: Small and fast address book
• Website: http://gfa.sourceforge.net

• Description: Computer dictionary for several dictionary formats
• Website: http://opendict.idiles.com
• Remarks: wxPython application

• Description: Multi-purpose desktop calculator
• Website: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/

• Description: A basic-statistics GUI for the R programming language, based on the tcltk toolkit
• Website: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/
• Remarks: On a general basis, to be installed from within R

• Description: simple To Do list application
• Website: http://pimlico-project.org/tasks.html