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recommendedapps [2013/03/13 13:15] – [Terminal] updated with more specific URL kevinbowenrecommendedapps [2015/07/06 23:06] mohammad-ghasemi
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 This page contains various suggested applications for the Xfce desktop environment. 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.+These applications do not require heavy dependencies and/or fit in the Xfce philosophy of being light on memory usage.
  
 {{:wiki:information.png|}} //There is a secondary page with suggested [[consoleaddict|command line tools]], but only for the console-guru inside you.// {{:wiki:information.png|}} //There is a secondary page with suggested [[consoleaddict|command line tools]], but only for the console-guru inside you.//
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 ==== Terminal ==== ==== Terminal ====
   * Description: Vte based/gtk+-2 lightweight X-terminal   * Description: Vte based/gtk+-2 lightweight X-terminal
-  * Website: http://www.os-cillation.de/open-source-projekte/xfce-terminal/+  * Website: http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start
   * Remarks: **Xfce project**   * Remarks: **Xfce project**
-==== Tilda ==== +  drop down is now part of the default terminal 
-  Description: Quake-styled Terminal +==== xfce4-xkb-plugin ====
-  * Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tilda/?source=directory +
-  * GitHub repository: https://github.com/tsloughter/tilda/ +
-==== fbxkb ====+
   * Description: Keyboard layout indicator and switcher   * Description: Keyboard layout indicator and switcher
-  * Website: http://fbxkb.sourceforge.net/+  * Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin
  
 ==== HardInfo ==== ==== HardInfo ====
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   * Website: http://code.google.com/p/key-mon/   * Website: http://code.google.com/p/key-mon/
  
-==== LXPolkit ====+==== xfce-polkit ====
   * Description: A minimal policykit authentication agent.   * Description: A minimal policykit authentication agent.
-  * Website: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=674+  * Website: https://github.com/ncopa/xfce-polkit 
 ==== LightDM ==== ==== LightDM ====
   * Description: A lightweight display manager   * Description: A lightweight display manager
   * Website: https://launchpad.net/lightdm   * Website: https://launchpad.net/lightdm
- +  Remarksnot really lightweight on dependencies 
-==== SLiM ==== +
-  DescriptionDesktop-independent graphical login manager for X11 +
-  * Website: http://slim.berlios.de+
  
 ==== Meta Tracker ==== ==== Meta Tracker ====
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   * Description: A wired and wireless network manager which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.   * 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/   * Website: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
 +  * Remarks: //python application//
  
 +==== ConnMan ====
 +  * Description: ConnMan is a daemon for managing Internet connections within embedded device and integrates a vast range of communication features usually split between many daemons such as DHCP, DNS and NTP. The result of this consolidation is low memory consumption with a fast, coherent, synchronized reaction to changing network conditions.
 +  * Website: https://01.org/connman
 +  * ConnMan-UI-gtk: https://github.com/tbursztyka/connman-ui
 +  * connman-ncurses: https://github.com/eurogiciel-oss/connman-json-client
 +  * connman-dmenu: https://github.com/march-linux/connman_dmenu
 +==== Ceni ====
 +  * Description: A Curses user interface for configuring network interfaces with ifupdown.
 +  * Manual: http://manual.siduction.org/en/inet-ceni-en.htm
 +  * Source: http://chili.siduction.org/projects/siduction/wiki/Ceni
 ==== Wpa_supplicant ==== ==== Wpa_supplicant ====
   * Description: A wired and wireless network manager which provides connections to networks with a wide variety of settings.   * Description: A wired and wireless network manager which provides connections to networks with a wide variety of settings.
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   * Remarks: //Can pull *some* gnome dependencies (printing is based on libgnomeprint, for example.) Compile yourself to avoid them //   * Remarks: //Can pull *some* gnome dependencies (printing is based on libgnomeprint, for example.) Compile yourself to avoid them //
  
-==== Epdfview ==== +==== Zathura ==== 
-  * Description: A free lightweight PDF document viewer +  * Description: minimalistic document viewer, that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction. 
-  * Website:  http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/+  * Website: http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ 
 + 
 +==== MuPDF ==== 
 +  * Description: a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer 
 +  * Website: http://www.mupdf.com/
  
 ==== Gnumeric ==== ==== Gnumeric ====
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   * Website: http://www.lyx.org/   * Website: http://www.lyx.org/
    
- 
 ==== RedNotebook ==== ==== RedNotebook ====
   * Description: Graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts   * Description: Graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts
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   * Website: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/   * Website: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/
   * Remarks: **Notecase discontinued. NotecasePro is not Free Software**   * Remarks: **Notecase discontinued. NotecasePro is not Free Software**
 +
 ==== Osmo ==== ==== Osmo ====
   * Description: Personal organizer that includes calendar, task manager and address book   * Description: Personal organizer that includes calendar, task manager and address book
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   * Remarks: **Xfce project**   * Remarks: **Xfce project**
  
-==== Postler ==== +==== xombrero ==== 
-  * Description:lean mail reader with an opinionated interface +  * Description:minimalist web browser with sophisticated security features designed-in 
-  * Website: https://bugs.launchpad.net/postler +  * Website: https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero
-  * Remarks: //Discontinued//+
  
 +==== Kazehakase ====
 +  * Description: A GTK+ web browser based on the Webkit or Gecko engine
 +  * Website: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp
 +
 +==== Dillo ====
 +  * 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 //
 +
 +==== Chromium ====
 +  * Description: lightweight & fast WebKit-based Webbrowser
 +  * Website: http://code.google.com/chromium/
 +
 +==== Sylpheed ====
 +  * Description: Slim but fully featured, GTK+ based Email Client (and News Reader)
 +  * Website: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en
 +  * 
 ==== Claws Mail ==== ==== Claws Mail ====
   * Description: Email Client, News Reader, Feed Reader, Calendar ...   * Description: Email Client, News Reader, Feed Reader, Calendar ...
   * Website: http://www.claws-mail.org   * Website: http://www.claws-mail.org
   * Remarks: //Formerly known as Sylpheed Claws, can publish calendar data to [[http://www.xfce.org/projects/orage/|Orage]].//   * Remarks: //Formerly known as Sylpheed Claws, can publish calendar data to [[http://www.xfce.org/projects/orage/|Orage]].//
- 
-==== Geary  ==== 
-  * Description: A lightweight, easy-to-use, feature-rich email client 
-  * Website: http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/geary/wiki 
- 
-==== Xchat ==== 
-  * Description: A GTK+-2 based IRC client 
-  * Website: http://www.xchat.org 
  
 ==== Balsa ==== ==== Balsa ====
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   * Remarks: depends on gnome-icon-theme, depends on libgtkhtml which needs libgnomeui)   * Remarks: depends on gnome-icon-theme, depends on libgtkhtml which needs libgnomeui)
  
-==== Gajim ==== +==== Geary  ==== 
-  * Description: Full-supported Jabber Client +  * Description: A lightweight, easy-to-use, feature-rich email client 
-  * Website: http://www.gajim.org/ +  * Website: http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/geary/wiki 
-  * Remarks: //Python application//+ 
 +==== Postler ==== 
 +  * Description: A lean mail reader with an opinionated interface 
 +  * Website: https://bugs.launchpad.net/postler 
 +  * Remarks: //Discontinued//
  
 ==== Liferea ==== ==== Liferea ====
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   * Description: Full-featured, GTK+ native Bittorrent client   * Description: Full-featured, GTK+ native Bittorrent client
   * Website: http://deluge-torrent.org   * Website: http://deluge-torrent.org
-  * Remarks: //python application// +  * Remarks: //python application// - It uses twise as memory as Transmission and has more dependencesUse  Transmission and if it did not satisfy your needsuse this.
- +
-==== Sylpheed ==== +
-  * Description: Slim but fully featured, GTK+ 2.x based Email Client (and News Reader) +
-  * Website: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en +
-  * Remarks: Can support gnomeif wished+
  
 ==== Transmission ==== ==== Transmission ====
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   * Website: http://jitsi.org/   * Website: http://jitsi.org/
   * Remarks: Formerly known as SIP Communicator   * Remarks: Formerly known as SIP Communicator
 +
 +==== HexChat ====
 +  * Description: A GTK+-2 based IRC client
 +  * Website: https://hexchat.github.io/
 +
 +==== Gajim ====
 +  * Description: Full-supported Jabber Client
 +  * Website: http://www.gajim.org/
 +  * Remarks: //Python application//
  
 ==== Linphone ==== ==== Linphone ====
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   * Description: GTK+ 2 GUI for the Licq Instant Messenger   * Description: GTK+ 2 GUI for the Licq Instant Messenger
   * Website: http://icqnd.sourceforge.net   * Website: http://icqnd.sourceforge.net
- 
-==== Kazehakase ==== 
-  * Description: A GTK+ web browser based on the Webkit or Gecko engine 
-  * Website: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp 
- 
-==== Dillo ==== 
-  * 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 // 
  
 ==== pyNeighborhood ==== ==== pyNeighborhood ====
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   * Website: http://yarssr.sourceforge.net/   * Website: http://yarssr.sourceforge.net/
   * Remark: //PERL application//   * Remark: //PERL application//
- 
-==== Chromium ==== 
-  * Description: lightweight & fast WebKit-based Webbrowser 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/chromium/ 
- 
  
 ===== Multimedia: Playback (GStreamer) ===== ===== Multimedia: Playback (GStreamer) =====
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   * Description: multimedia framework   * Description: multimedia framework
   * Website: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/   * Website: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
-  * Remarks: many frontends.+  * Remarks: many frontends, codecs come in packages they can not be installed independent
  
 ==== Parole ==== ==== Parole ====
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   * Description: lightweight GTK+ music manager/player   * Description: lightweight GTK+ music manager/player
   * Website: http://pragha.wikispaces.com/   * Website: http://pragha.wikispaces.com/
 +
 +==== Snappy ====
 +  * Description: Video player based on clutter and GStreamer
 +  * Website: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Snappy
  
 ==== Foobnix ==== ==== Foobnix ====
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   * Website: http://foobnix.appspot.com/news/eng   * Website: http://foobnix.appspot.com/news/eng
   * Remarks: //python application//   * Remarks: //python application//
 +
 ==== Exaile ==== ==== Exaile ====
   * Description: GTK+ media player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok   * Description: GTK+ media player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok
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   * Description: A fork and rewrite of Beep Media Player   * Description: A fork and rewrite of Beep Media Player
   * Website: http://audacious-media-player.org   * Website: http://audacious-media-player.org
-  * Remarks: comes with a GTK+ UI+  * Remarks: comes with a GTK+, Qt, Winamp 2.x skin support
  
 ==== Aqualung ==== ==== Aqualung ====
   * Description: Cross-platform music player with gapless playback & LADSPA plugins   * Description: Cross-platform music player with gapless playback & LADSPA plugins
   * Website: http://aqualung.factorial.hu/   * Website: http://aqualung.factorial.hu/
 +
 +==== cmus ====
 +  * Description: Super powerful, super easy, super light-weight music player
 +  * Website: https://cmus.github.io/
 +  * Remarks: It's a cli music-player but easier than any gui one I've ever worked with. Spend 5 minutes reading [[https://github.com/cmus/cmus/blob/master/Doc/cmus-tutorial.txt|this tutorial]] and you'll never use other music-player.
  
 ==== DeaDBeeF ==== ==== DeaDBeeF ====
-  * Description: Ultimate Music Player For GNU/Linux+  * Description: A very lightweight plugin based GTK2 or GTK3 music player
   * Website: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/   * Website: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
-  * Remark: It has Foobar-like interface+  * Remark: Fully customizable interface, massive file format support even without big frameworks like GStreamer
  
 ==== Potamus ==== ==== Potamus ====
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   * Description: A media player supporting a large number of multimedia formats   * Description: A media player supporting a large number of multimedia formats
   * Website: http://www.videolan.org   * Website: http://www.videolan.org
-  * Remarks: Qt4+  * Remarks: Qt 
 + 
 +==== mpv ==== 
 +  * Description: mpv is a fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer. It shares some features with the former projects while introducing many more. 
 +  * Website: http://mpv.io 
 +  * Remarks: Qt 
 + 
 +==== bomi ==== 
 +  * Description: bomi is a graphical user interface(GUI) player based on mpv. 
 +  * Website: https://bomi-player.github.io 
 +  * Remarks: Qt 
 +==== Qmmp ==== 
 +  * Description: A lightweight audioplayer but it can also play videos via mplayer 
 +  * Website: http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com 
 +  * Remarks: Qt, Winamp Classic Skins 
 +==== KISS Player ==== 
 +  * Description: A simple, cross-platform and lightweight music player 
 +  * Website: http://sf.net/p/kissplayer/ 
 +  * Remarks: FLTK and FMOD
  
 +==== Yarock ====
 +  * Description: Yarock is Modern Music Player designed to provide an easy and pretty music collection browser based on cover art
 +  * Website: https://launchpad.net/yarock
 +  * Remarks: Qt
  
 ===== Multimedia: Ripping Tools ===== ===== Multimedia: Ripping Tools =====
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 ==== Tagtool ==== ==== Tagtool ====
   * Description: A program to edit ID3 tags   * Description: A program to edit ID3 tags
-  * Website: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/+  * Website: <del>http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/</del>  Invalid Link
  
 ==== HandBrake ==== ==== HandBrake ====
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   * Description: a fast and simple image viewer similar to Ristretto   * Description: a fast and simple image viewer similar to Ristretto
   * Website: http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/   * Website: http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/
 +
 ==== Comix ==== ==== Comix ====
   * Description: (archived) Image viewer   * Description: (archived) Image viewer
   * Website: http://comix.sourceforge.net/index.html   * Website: http://comix.sourceforge.net/index.html
   * Remarks: Discontinued, see MComix below   * Remarks: Discontinued, see MComix below
- 
  
 ==== MComix ==== ==== MComix ====
   * Description: (archived) Image viewer   * Description: (archived) Image viewer
   * Website: http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/   * Website: http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/
 +
 ==== Dia ==== ==== Dia ====
   * Description: A diagramming tool   * Description: A diagramming tool
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   * Description: Lightweight image viewer. It was forked from GQview.   * Description: Lightweight image viewer. It was forked from GQview.
   * Website: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/   * Website: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/
 +
 +==== gtkam ====
 +  * Description: gtkam is the official GTK2 GUI for libgphoto2. Browse you photos from your camera.
 +  * Website: http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/proj/gtkam/
  
 ==== Gimmage ==== ==== Gimmage ====
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   * Description: GNU Image Manipulation Program   * Description: GNU Image Manipulation Program
   * Website: http://www.gimp.org   * Website: http://www.gimp.org
 +  * Remarks: heavie dependencies
  
 +==== Pinta ====
 +  * Description: easy to use drawing/editing program.
 +  * Website: http://pinta-project.com/
 +  * Remarks: Mono Application
 ==== gpicview ==== ==== gpicview ====
   * Description: A Simple and Fast GTK+ Image Viewer   * Description: A Simple and Fast GTK+ Image Viewer
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   * Website: http://gqview.sourceforge.net   * Website: http://gqview.sourceforge.net
   * Remarks: //Does not currently appear to be under active development//   * Remarks: //Does not currently appear to be under active development//
 +
 ==== Inkscape ==== ==== Inkscape ====
   * Description: Full featured open source SVG editor   * Description: Full featured open source SVG editor
   * Website: http://www.inkscape.org   * Website: http://www.inkscape.org
 +  * Remarks: //Can pull *some* gnome dependencies Compile yourself to avoid them //
  
 ==== Mirage ==== ==== Mirage ====
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   * Description: An Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets   * Description: An Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets
   * Website: http://madedit.sourceforge.net/   * Website: http://madedit.sourceforge.net/
 +
 ==== Heraia ==== ==== Heraia ====
   * Description: Lightweight HEX-Editor   * Description: Lightweight HEX-Editor
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   * Website: http://squeeze.xfce.org/   * Website: http://squeeze.xfce.org/
   * Remarks: **Xfce project**    * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
- 
-==== Thunar ==== 
-  * Description: Modern, fast and intuitive file manager 
-  * Website: http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/ 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
  
 ==== Leafpad ==== ==== Leafpad ====
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   * Description: An Tk-based offline/desktop dictionary lookup program for X11/Linux, Unix, which contains a German-English dictionary and works with multiple databases/text files   * Description: An Tk-based offline/desktop dictionary lookup program for X11/Linux, Unix, which contains a German-English dictionary and works with multiple databases/text files
   * Website: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/   * Website: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/
- 
-==== emelFM2 ==== 
-  * Description: An "orthodox" two-pane file manager 
-  * Website: http://emelfm2.net/ 
  
 ==== Galculator ==== ==== Galculator ====
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   * Description: Very lightweight utility to record your desktop in OGV format   * Description: Very lightweight utility to record your desktop in OGV format
   * Website: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php   * Website: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php
- 
-==== Rodent ==== 
-  * Description: Advanced file manager 
-  * Website: http://xffm.org/ 
-  * Remarks: //Formerly Xffm and part of Xfce// 
  
 ==== Skippy-XD ==== ==== Skippy-XD ====
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   * Description: simple To Do list application   * Description: simple To Do list application
   * Website: http://pimlico-project.org/tasks.html   * Website: http://pimlico-project.org/tasks.html
 +
 +===== File Managers =====
 +
 +==== xfe ====
 +
 +  * Description: Super fast, highly configurable dual-panel file manager
 +  * Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xfe/
 +  * Remarks: To make it dual-panel select: view/two panels
  
 ==== Tux Commander ==== ==== Tux Commander ====
   * Description: Tux Commander is a windowed file manager with 2 panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.   * 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/   * Website: http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/
 +
 +==== Rodent ====
 +  * Description: Advanced file manager
 +  * Website: http://xffm.org/
 +  * Remarks: //Formerly Xffm and part of Xfce//
 +
 +==== Thunar ====
 +  * Description: Modern, fast and intuitive file manager
 +  * Website: http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/
 +  * Remarks: **Xfce project**
 +
 +==== emelFM2 ====
 +  * Description: An "orthodox" two-pane file manager
 +  * Website: http://emelfm2.net/
 +