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-====== Suggested Applications ======+===== Lists of Lightweight Applications That Xfce Users Recommend===== 
 +**[[http://alternativeto.net/tag/xfce-project/|XFCE project applications]]**
  
-This page contains various suggested applications for the Xfce desktop environment. +**[[http://alternativeto.net/platform/xfce/|All lightweight applications]]** 
-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.// 
  
-===== System Applications ===== 
  
-==== Terminal ==== +===== How to contribute to the lists? ===== 
-  * Description: Vte based/gtk+-2 lightweight X-terminal +  * Login to [[https://alternativeto.net/account/login|alternativeto.net]] 
-  * Website: http://www.os-cillation.de/open-source-projekte/xfce-terminal+  * Add "Xfce" to the custom platform field of an application profile 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** +  * In addition to that, add an "xfce-project" tag to the tag field of the application profile //IF AND ONLY IF// the application is part of the Xfce project itself.
-==== Tilda ==== +
-  * Description: Quake-styled Terminal +
-  * Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tilda/?source=directory +
-  * GitHub repository: https://github.com/tsloughter/tilda/ +
-==== fbxkb ==== +
-  * Description: Keyboard layout indicator and switcher +
-  * Website: http://fbxkb.sourceforge.net/+
  
-==== HardInfo ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+2 System information and benchmark tool 
-  * Website: http://hardinfo.berlios.de/HomePage 
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-==== Keyboard Status Monitor (key-mon) ==== 
-  * Description: Utility to show live keyboard and mouse status for teaching and screencasts 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/key-mon/ 
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-==== LXPolkit ==== 
-  * Description: A minimal policykit authentication agent. 
-  * Website: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=674 
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-==== PolicyKit-MATE ==== 
-  * Description: lightweight Authentication Agent for PolicyKit and MATE. 
-  * Website: http://git.mate-desktop.org/mate-polkit/ 
-==== LightDM ==== 
-  * Description: A lightweight display manager 
-  * Website: https://launchpad.net/lightdm 
-  * Remarks: not really lightweight on dependencies  
-==== SLiM ==== 
-  * Description: Desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11 
-  * Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/slim.berlios/ 
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-==== Meta Tracker ==== 
-  * 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)// 
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-==== Wicd ==== 
-  * 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/ 
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-==== 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 ==== 
-  * Description: A wired and wireless network manager which provides connections to networks with a wide variety of settings. 
-  * Manpage: http://linux.die.net/man/5/wpa_supplicant.conf 
-  * Remarks: //Installed as a dependency by most other network managers (e.g., Wicd), however can be used directly in roaming mode and via gui interface using wpa-gui// 
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-==== Font-manager ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+2 font-manager written in python 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/ 
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-==== BUM Boot-Up-Manager ==== 
-  * Description: A GTK+ Runlevel-Editor 
-  * Website: http://www.marzocca.net/linux/bum.html 
-  * Remarks: Debian-like System 
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-==== X-tile ==== 
-  * Description: Tile windows in different ways 
-  * http://www.giuspen.com/x-tile/ 
-===== Office Applications ===== 
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-==== Xfce4 Dictionary ==== 
-  * Description: A dictionary, spelling checker and speed reader application 
-  * Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
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-==== Orage ==== 
-  * Description: Modern calendar application 
-  * Website: http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/ 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce Project** 
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-==== Abiword ==== 
-  * 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 // 
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-==== Zathura ==== 
-  * Description: minimalistic document viewer, that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction. 
-  * Website: http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ 
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-==== MuPDF ==== 
-  * Description: a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer 
-  * Website: http://www.mupdf.com/ 
-==== Gnumeric ==== 
-  * 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 // 
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-==== LyX ==== 
-  * Description: Document Processor, an almost-WYSIWYG frontend to LaTeX 
-  * Website: http://www.lyx.org/ 
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-==== RedNotebook ==== 
-  * Description: Graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts 
-  * Website: http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== Zim ==== 
-  * Description: A desktop wiki and outliner 
-  * Website: http://zim-wiki.org/ 
-  * Remarks: //Python application// 
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-==== Notecase ==== 
-  * Description: Hierarchical note manager (aka. outliner) 
-  * Website: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/ 
-  * Remarks: **Notecase discontinued. NotecasePro is not Free Software** 
-==== Osmo ==== 
-  * Description: Personal organizer that includes calendar, task manager and address book 
-  * Website: http://clayo.org/osmo/ 
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-==== Dayplanner ==== 
-  * Description: Calendar with reminder and scheduled alarms 
-  * Website: http://www.day-planner.org/ 
-  * Remarks: //Perl application// 
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-==== Sunbird ==== 
-  * Description: Full-featured and easy to use calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit 
-  * Website: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/ 
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-==== StickWiki ==== 
-  * Description: Self-contained desktop wiki 
-  * Website: http://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/ 
-  * Self-modifying XHTML file 
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-==== TeXmacs ==== 
-  * Description: A more-featured text/book writer with hypertext features and an integrated browser mode 
-  * Website: http://www.texmacs.org 
-  * Remarks: Although the name suggests it, neither TeX nor 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. 
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-==== TiddlyWiki ==== 
-  * Description: a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki 
-  * Website: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ 
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-==== Xpdf ==== 
-  * Description: A basic PDF viewer for X11 
-  * Website: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf 
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-==== Cabaret Stage  ==== 
-  * Description: A JAVA/GTK+ PDF-Editor 
-  * Website: http://www.cabaret-solutions.com/en/downloads 
-  * Remarks: **NON-FREE(only free for non commercial use)** 
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-===== Network Applications ===== 
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-==== Midori ==== 
-  * Description: A lightweight web browser based on WebKit 
-  * Website: http://www.twotoasts.de 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
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-==== xombrero ==== 
-  * Description: A minimalist web browser with sophisticated security features designed-in 
-  * Website: https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero 
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-==== Kazehakase ==== 
-  * Description: A GTK+ web browser based on the Webkit or Gecko engine 
-  * Website: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp 
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-==== 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 // 
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-==== Chromium ==== 
-  * Description: lightweight & fast WebKit-based Webbrowser 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/chromium/ 
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-==== Sylpheed ==== 
-  * Description: Slim but fully featured, GTK+ based Email Client (and News Reader) 
-  * Website: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en 
-  *  
-==== Claws Mail ==== 
-  * 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 [[http://www.xfce.org/projects/orage/|Orage]].// 
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-==== Balsa ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+-based, written in C. Uses a library version of the Mutt mailer as its "engine" 
-  * Website: http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ 
-  * Remarks: depends on gnome-icon-theme, depends on libgtkhtml which needs libgnomeui) 
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-==== Geary  ==== 
-  * Description: A lightweight, easy-to-use, feature-rich email client 
-  * Website: http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/geary/wiki 
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-==== Postler ==== 
-  * Description: A lean mail reader with an opinionated interface 
-  * Website: https://bugs.launchpad.net/postler 
-  * Remarks: //Discontinued// 
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-==== Liferea ==== 
-  * Description: A lightweight GTK+ RSS feed reader 
-  * Website: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== Linkage ==== 
-  * Description: Lightweight GTK+ Bittorrent client 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/linkage/ 
-  * Remarks: written in C++ using libgtkmm and libtorrent, homepage shows it is not maintained (18 Nov 09) 
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-==== Deluge ==== 
-  * Description: Full-featured, GTK+ native Bittorrent client 
-  * Website: http://deluge-torrent.org 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-==== Transmission ==== 
-  * Description: fast BitTorrent client with low memory use and lots of features. 
-  * Website: http://www.transmissionbt.com 
-  * Remarks: GTK+ application written in C.  The backend can be run as a daemon without a gui. 
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-==== Uget Download Manager ==== 
-  * Description: download manager written in GTK+, it has many features. 
-  * Website: http://urlget.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== Pidgin ==== 
-  * Description: An instant messenger client for several protocols 
-  * Website: http://pidgin.im 
-  * Remarks: Formerly known as Gaim 
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-==== Jitsi ==== 
-  * Description: An audio/video and chat communicator that supports many protocols (SIP, XMPP, etc.) 
-  * Website: http://jitsi.org/ 
-  * Remarks: Formerly known as SIP Communicator 
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-==== Xchat ==== 
-  * Description: A GTK+-2 based IRC client 
-  * Website: http://www.xchat.org 
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-==== Gajim ==== 
-  * Description: Full-supported Jabber Client 
-  * Website: http://www.gajim.org/ 
-  * Remarks: //Python application// 
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-==== Linphone ==== 
-  * Description: A SIP/VoIP softphone with support for voice, video, and text instant messaging 
-  * Website: http://www.linphone.org/ 
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-==== Pino ==== 
-  * Description: A lightweight Twitter-client written in Vala 
-  * Website: http://pino-app.appspot.com/index 
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-==== gFTP ==== 
-  * Description: Graphical FTP client 
-  * Website: http://www.gftp.org 
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-==== Grsync ==== 
-  * Description: A GUI for rsync 
-  * Website: http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/ 
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-==== IcQnD ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ 2 GUI for the Licq Instant Messenger 
-  * Website: http://icqnd.sourceforge.net 
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-==== pyNeighborhood ==== 
-  * Description: A smbfs(samba) frontend, a GTK+ 2 rewrite of LinNeighborhood. 
-  * Website: http://pyneighborhood.sourceforge.net 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-==== SpiderOak ==== 
-  * Description: A secure and free cross-platform online backup, sync and storage solution 
-  * Website: https://spideroak.com/ 
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-==== Yarssr ==== 
-  * Description: Yet Another RSS Reader that displays its results in the notification area 
-  * Website: http://yarssr.sourceforge.net/ 
-  * Remark: //PERL application// 
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-===== Multimedia: Playback (GStreamer) ===== 
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-==== GStreamer ==== 
-  * Description: multimedia framework 
-  * Website: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ 
-  * Remarks: many frontends, codecs come in packages they can not be installed independent 
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-==== Parole ==== 
-  * Description: Media player based on GStreamer 
-  * Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/parole 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce Project** 
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-==== Pragha ==== 
-  * Description: lightweight GTK+ music manager/player 
-  * Website: http://pragha.wikispaces.com/ 
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-==== Foobnix ==== 
-  * Description: Media player based on GStreamer 
-  * Website: http://foobnix.appspot.com/news/eng 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
-==== Exaile ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ media player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok 
-  * Website: http://www.exaile.org 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-==== Mesk ==== 
-  * Description: Audio player based on GStreamer 
-  * Website: http://mesk.nicfit.net 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-==== XNOISE ==== 
-  * Description: XNOISE is a media player for Gtk+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features. 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/xnoise/ 
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-==== Quod Libet ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ audio only player 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-===== Multimedia: Playback (Xine) ===== 
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-==== xine ==== 
-  * Description: multimedia playback engine 
-  * Website: http://www.xine-project.org 
-  * Remarks: comes with a frontend(xine-ui) 
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-==== Xfmedia ==== 
-  * Description: The Xfce media player 
-  * Website: http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfmedia 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** obsolete 
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-==== Goggles Music Manager ==== 
-  * 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.// 
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-==== gxine ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ media player 
-  * Website: http://www.xine-project.org 
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-===== Multimedia: Playback (MPlayer) ===== 
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-==== MPlayer ==== 
-  * Description: media player 
-  * Website: http://www.mplayerhq.hu 
-  * Remarks: comes with a GTK+ frontend(gmplayer) 
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-==== Gnome-MPlayer ==== 
-  * 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: The main dependency is on GTK2, GLIB2 and DBUS. 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/ 
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-===== Multimedia: Playback (MPD) ===== 
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-==== MPD ==== 
-  * Description: runs in the background playing music from its playlist. 
-  * Website: http://mpd.wikia.com 
-  * Remarks: Has many front ends 
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-==== Xfmpc ==== 
-  * Description: Graphical GTK+ MPD client (Music Player Daemon) 
-  * Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfmpc 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
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-==== Ario ==== 
-  * Description: A GTK client for MPD inspired by Rhythmbox but much lighter and faster. 
-  * Website: http://ario-player.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== Gimmix ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ MPD client 
-  * Website: http://gimmix.berlios.de 
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-==== Sonata ==== 
-  * Description: Elegant GTK+ MPD client 
-  * Website: http://sonata.berlios.de 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-===== Multimedia: Playback (XMMS 2) ===== 
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-==== XMMS 2 ==== 
-  * Description: runs in the background playing music from its playlist. 
-  * Website: http://xmms2.org 
-  * Remarks: Has many front ends 
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-==== Abraca ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ XMMS2 client 
-  * Website: http://abraca.xmms.se/ 
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-===== Multimedia: Playback ===== 
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-==== Audacious ==== 
-  * Description: A fork and rewrite of Beep Media Player 
-  * Website: http://audacious-media-player.org 
-  * Remarks: comes with a GTK+ UI, Winamp 2.x skin support 
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-==== Aqualung ==== 
-  * Description: Cross-platform music player with gapless playback & LADSPA plugins 
-  * Website: http://aqualung.factorial.hu/ 
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-==== DeaDBeeF ==== 
-  * Description: A very lightweight plugin based GTK2 or GTK3 music player 
-  * Website: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ 
-  * Remark: Fully customizable interface, massive file format support even without big frameworks like GStreamer 
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-==== Potamus ==== 
-  * Description: Lightweight audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality 
-  * Website: http://offog.org/code/potamus.html 
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-==== VLC media player ==== 
-  * Description: A media player supporting a large number of multimedia formats 
-  * Website: http://www.videolan.org 
-  * Remarks: Qt4 
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-==== KISS Player ==== 
-  * Description: A simple, cross-platform and lightweight music player 
-  * Website: http://sf.net/p/kissplayer/ 
-  * Remarks: FLTK and FMOD 
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-===== Multimedia: Ripping Tools ===== 
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-==== Asunder ==== 
-  * Description: A simple GTK+-2 CD ripper and encoder 
-  * Website: http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/ 
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-==== xfburn ==== 
-  * 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** 
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-==== Bombono DVD ==== 
-  * Description: DVD authoring program 
-  * Website: http://www.bombono.org/, http://sf.net/projects/bombono/ 
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-==== EasyTAG ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ utility for editing MP2, MP3, MP4, FLAC, Ogg and other media tags 
-  * Website: http://easytag.sourceforge.net 
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-==== Gaupol ==== 
-  * Description: Editor for text-based subtitle files 
-  * Website: http://home.gna.org/gaupol/ 
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-==== Gpodder ==== 
-  * Description: Podcast manager that syncs with portable audio devices  
-  * Website: http://gpodder.berlios.de 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-==== Graveman! ==== 
-  * 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 
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-==== Tagtool ==== 
-  * Description: A program to edit ID3 tags 
-  * Website: <del>http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/</del>  Invalid Link 
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-==== HandBrake ==== 
-  * Description: Multithreaded video transcoder 
-  * Website: http://handbrake.fr/ 
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-==== Thoggen ==== 
-  * Description: Simple and beautiful DVD ripping based on GStreamer and GTK+ 
-  * Website: http://thoggen.net/ 
-==== Transcoder ==== 
-  * Description: Simple video converter based on ffmpeg 
-  * Website: http://transcoder84.sourceforge.net/ 
-==== Transcoder Audio Edition ==== 
-  * Description: Simple audio converter based on ffmpeg 
-  * Website: http://transcoderae84.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== mhWaveEdit ==== 
-  * Description: Program for playing, editing, and recording sound files 
-  * Website: http://gna.org/projects/mhwaveedit 
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-===== Multimedia: Misc ===== 
-==== Imagination ==== 
-  * Description: A lightweight and simple DVD and video slide-show maker  
-  * Website: http://imagination.sourceforge.net/ 
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-===== Graphic/Photo Applications ===== 
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-==== Ristretto ==== 
-  * Description: Image viewer 
-  * Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/ristretto 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
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-==== Viewnior ==== 
-  * Description: a fast and simple image viewer similar to Ristretto 
-  * Website: http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/ 
-==== Comix ==== 
-  * Description: (archived) Image viewer 
-  * Website: http://comix.sourceforge.net/index.html 
-  * Remarks: Discontinued, see MComix below 
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-==== MComix ==== 
-  * Description: (archived) Image viewer 
-  * Website: http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/ 
-==== Dia ==== 
-  * Description: A diagramming tool 
-  * Website: http://live.gnome.org/Dia 
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-==== GImageView ==== 
-  * Description: Minimal ACDSee-like image viewer 
-  * Website: http://gtkmmviewer.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== Gcolor2 ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+2 Color Selector 
-  * Website: http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== Geeqie ==== 
-  * Description: Lightweight image viewer. It was forked from GQview. 
-  * Website: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== gtkam ==== 
-  * Description: gtkam is the official GTK2 GUI for libgphoto2. Browse you photos from your camera. 
-  * Website: http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/proj/gtkam/ 
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-==== Gimmage ==== 
-  * Description: Minimalistic image viewer 
-  * Website: http://gimmage.berlios.de 
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-==== Gimp ==== 
-  * Description: GNU Image Manipulation Program 
-  * Website: http://www.gimp.org 
-  * Remarks: heavie dependencies 
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-==== Pinta ==== 
-  * Description: easy to use drawing/editing program. 
-  * Website: http://pinta-project.com/ 
-  * Remarks: Mono Application 
-==== gpicview ==== 
-  * Description: A Simple and Fast GTK+ Image Viewer 
-  * Website: http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview 
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-==== mtPaint ==== 
-  * Description: Lightweight GtK+2 image manipulation program 
-  * Website: http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== GQview ==== 
-  * Description: An image browser for X 
-  * Website: http://gqview.sourceforge.net 
-  * Remarks: //Does not currently appear to be under active development// 
-==== Inkscape ==== 
-  * Description: Full featured open source SVG editor 
-  * Website: http://www.inkscape.org 
-  * Remarks: //Can pull *some* gnome dependencies Compile yourself to avoid them // 
-==== Mirage ==== 
-  * Description: Image viewer and editor 
-  * Website: http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-===== Development Applications ===== 
-==== Diffuse ==== 
-  * Description: Graphical tool for merging and comparing text files 
-  * Website: http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== Geany ==== 
-  * Description: Fast and lightweight IDE 
-  * Website: http://www.geany.org/ 
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-==== MadEdit ==== 
-  * Description: An Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets 
-  * Website: http://madedit.sourceforge.net/ 
-==== Heraia ==== 
-  * Description: Lightweight HEX-Editor 
-  * Website: http://heraia.tuxfamily.org/ 
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-==== Medit ==== 
-  * Description: Programming text editor 
-  * Website: http://mooedit.sourceforge.net 
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-==== Meld ==== 
-  * Description: Graphical diff and merge tool 
-  * Website: http://meld.sourceforge.net/ 
-  * Remark: written in Python (PyGTK) 
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-==== Oxalis ==== 
-  * Description: Quick HTML pages creation with templates 
-  * Website: http://sergejx.mysteria.cz/oxalis/ 
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-==== PIDA ==== 
-  * 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 
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-==== SciTE ==== 
-  * Description: A free GTK+-based source code editor 
-  * Website: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html 
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-==== vim/gvim ==== 
-  * Description: Versatile editor/IDE 
-  * Website:  http://vim.sf.net 
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-===== Accessories ===== 
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-==== Mousepad ==== 
-  * Description: Lighweight text editor for Xfce 
-  * Website: http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/ 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
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-==== Squeeze ==== 
-  * Description: An archive manager for Xfce 
-  * Website: http://squeeze.xfce.org/ 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project**  
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-==== Thunar ==== 
-  * Description: Modern, fast and intuitive file manager 
-  * Website: http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/ 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
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-==== Leafpad ==== 
-  * Description : Lightweight editor 
-  * Website: http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ 
-  * Remarks: An alternative editor for Mousepad 
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-==== Xarchiver ==== 
-  * Description: Simple archive manager 
-  * Website: http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== File-Roller ==== 
-  * Description: Full featured archive manager 
-  * Website: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/ 
-  * Remarks: <del>//Has no dependencies on Gnome libraries//</del> Now depends on Nautilus 
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-==== Cairo-Dock ==== 
-  * Description: A light, eye-candy, fully themable, MacOSX-like animated dock for any Linux desktop 
-  * Website: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/cairo-dock/ 
-  * Remarks: Some plugins have many dependencies, needs composite extension 
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-==== Catfish ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ desktop search frontend 
-  * Website: http://software.twotoasts.de/?page=catfish 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-==== Deducer ==== 
-  * Description: An intuitive, cross-platform graphical data analysis system 
-  * Website: http://www.deducer.org/manual.html 
-  * Remarks: //A free easy to use alternative to proprietary software such as SPSS, JMP, and Minitab. It is based on JGR and should, generally, to be installed from with-in R// 
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-==== Ding ==== 
-  * 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/ 
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-==== emelFM2 ==== 
-  * Description: An "orthodox" two-pane file manager 
-  * Website: http://emelfm2.net/ 
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-==== Galculator ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ based calculator 
-  * Website: http://galculator.sourceforge.net 
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-==== Google Gadgets ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+ or Qt4 based Widget-Engine 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/ 
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-==== GPA ==== 
-  * Description: GNU Privacy Assistant is a graphical frontend for the GNU Privacy Guard (gpg) 
-  * Website: http://www.gnupg.org 
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-==== GPeriodic ==== 
-  * Description: Comprehensive periodic table of elements 
-  * Website: http://gperiodic.seul.org/ 
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-==== GtkHash ==== 
-  * Description: Utility for computing message digests or checksums 
-  * Website: http://gtkhash.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== JGR ==== 
-  * Description: A unified GUI for the R programming language, based on Java 
-  * Website: http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/JGR/index.html 
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-==== gfa ==== 
-  * Description: Small and fast address book 
-  * Website: http://gfa.sourceforge.net 
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-==== Figaro's Password Manager 2 (fpm2) ==== 
-  * Description: GTK+2 password manager tool 
-  * Website: http://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/ 
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-==== OpenDict ==== 
-  * Description: Computer dictionary for several dictionary formats 
-  * Website: http://opendict.idiles.com 
-  * Remarks: //wxPython application// 
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-==== Qalculate! ==== 
-  * Description: Multi-purpose desktop calculator 
-  * Website: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/ 
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-==== PasswordMaker Java Edition ==== 
-  * Description: A Java-based cross-platform solution to create unique, secure passwords compatible with PasswordMaker.org 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/passwordmaker-je/ 
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-==== R Commander ==== 
-  * Description: A basic-statistics GUI for the R programming language, based on the tcltk toolkit 
-  * Website: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/ 
-  * Remarks: //Needs to be installed from within R// 
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-==== RStudio ==== 
-  * Description: An intuitive and powerful integrated development environment (IDE) for R 
-  * Website: http://www.rstudio.org/ 
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-==== Recordmydesktop ==== 
-  * Description: Very lightweight utility to record your desktop in OGV format 
-  * Website: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php 
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-==== Rodent ==== 
-  * Description: Advanced file manager 
-  * Website: http://xffm.org/ 
-  * Remarks: //Formerly Xffm and part of Xfce// 
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-==== Skippy-XD ==== 
-  * Description: Standalone composited Exposé-like window picker for X11 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/skippy-xd/ 
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-==== Tasks ==== 
-  * Description: simple To Do list application 
-  * Website: http://pimlico-project.org/tasks.html 
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-==== 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. 
-  * Website: http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/