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: Graphical version of su written in C and GTK+ 2
• Website: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ktsuss/

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

• Description: Tool designed to extract information and metadata about your personal data so that it can be searched easily and quickly
• Website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/
• Remarks: The daemon does not require Gnome dependencies. To perform the searches, use a tool like catfish. (viewed at: http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/13-applications-to-install-on-ubuntu.html)

• Description: A wired and wireless network manager which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.
• Website: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

• 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: Personal organizer that includes calendar, task manager and address book
• Website: http://clay.ll.pl/osmo

• 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: Hierarchical note manager (aka. outliner)
• Website: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/

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

• Description: a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki
• Website: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

• Description: A lightweight web browser based on WebKit
• Website: http://www.twotoasts.de
• Remarks: Xfce project

• 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: Full-supported Jabber Client
• Website: http://www.gajim.org/
• Remarks: Python application

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

• Description: Lightweight GTK+ Bittorrent client
• Website: http://code.google.com/p/linkage/
• Remarks: written in C++ using libgtkmm and libtorrent

• 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 Webkit or Gecko engine
• Website: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp

• Description: web-browser that is only 420 kilobytes in size and is based on GTK1 libraries, it is very fast however provides limited functionality.
• Website: http://www.dillo.org/
• Remarks: viewed at: http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/13-applications-to-install-on-ubuntu.html

• 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: Yet Another RSS Reader that displays its results in the notification area
• Website: http://yarssr.sourceforge.net/
• Remark: PERL application

• 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: An easy to use CD/DVD burning program. Supports images and data discs so far.
• Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfburn
• Remarks: Xfce project

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

• Description: A GTK client for MPD inspired by Rhythmbox but much lighter and faster.
• Website: http://ario-player.sourceforge.net/

• 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: Cross-platform music player with gapless playback & LADSPA plugins
• Website: http://aqualung.factorial.hu/

• 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: http://consonance.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
• Website: http://consonance.sourceforge.net/

• 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: Music player daemon that is very light on resources
• Website: http://www.musicpd.org

• 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: media player
• Website: http://www.mplayer.org

• Description: Gnome MPlayer is a simple GUI for MPlayer. It is intended to be a nice tight player and provide a simple and clean interface to MPlayer.
• Dependencies: Gnome MPlayer is not highly dependent on the Gnome libraries, the look and feel of the application is based on the Gnome HIG. The main dependency is on GTK2, GLIB2 and DBUS.
• Website: http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/

• 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: Minimal ACDSee-like image viewer
• Website: http://gtkmmviewer.sourceforge.net/

• 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://www.geany.org/

• 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: An IDE that uses the tools already available rather than attempting to reinvent each one (embedding vim, using any version control system)
• Website: http://pida.co.uk/
• Remark: written in Python

• 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

• Description: Tux Commander is a windowed file manager with 2 panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.
• Website: http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/