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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. +
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-{{: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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-====== Accessories ====== 
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-===== Calculators ===== 
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-== Galculator == 
-  * Description: GTK+ based calculator 
-  * Website: http://galculator.sourceforge.net 
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-== Qalculate! == 
-  * Description: Multi-purpose desktop calculator 
-  * Website: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/ 
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-===== File Archivers ===== 
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-== Engrampa == 
-  * Description: The Mate fork of File-Roller 
-  * Website: https://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa 
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-== File-Roller == 
-  * Description: The GNOME File Archiver 
-  * Website: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/ 
-  * Remarks: depends on Nautilus 
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-== Squeeze == 
-  * Description: An archive manager for Xfce 
-  * Website: http://squeeze.xfce.org/ 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project**  
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-== Xarchiver == 
-  * Description: Simple archive manager 
-  * Website: http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/ 
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-===== File Managers ===== 
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-== emelFM2 == 
-  * Description: An "orthodox" two-pane file manager 
-  * Website: http://emelfm2.net/ 
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-== PCManFM == 
-  * Description: Very similar to thunar, with a more nautilus-like feature set. Lightweight. 
-  * Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm/ 
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-== Rodent == 
-  * Description: Advanced file manager 
-  * Website: http://xffm.org/ 
-  * Remarks: //Formerly Xffm and part of Xfce// 
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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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-== 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/ 
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-== xfe == 
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-  * 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 
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-===== Text Editors ===== 
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-== Leafpad == 
-  * Description : Lightweight editor 
-  * Website: http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ 
-  * Remarks: An alternative editor for Mousepad 
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-== Mousepad == 
-  * Description: Lighweight text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad 
-  * Website: http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/ 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
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-===== Misc ===== 
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-== Gcolor2 == 
-  * Description: GTK+2 Color Selector 
-  * Website: http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/ 
-   
-== Recordmydesktop == 
-  * Description: Very lightweight utility to record your desktop in OGV format 
-  * Website: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php 
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-== Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock== 
-  * Description: A light, eye-candy, fully themable, MacOSX-like animated dock for any Linux desktop 
-  * Website: http://glx-dock.org/ 
-  * 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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-== 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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-== Figaro's Password Manager 2 (fpm2) == 
-  * Description: GTK+2 password manager tool 
-  * Website: http://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/ 
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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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-== 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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-== 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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-== X-tile == 
-  * Description: Tile windows in different ways 
-  * http://www.giuspen.com/x-tile/ 
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-====== Graphics ====== 
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-===== Image Viewers ===== 
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-== Geeqie == 
-  * Description: Lightweight image viewer. It was forked from GQview. 
-  * Website: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/ 
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-== GImageView == 
-  * Description: Minimal ACDSee-like image viewer 
-  * Website: http://gtkmmviewer.sourceforge.net/ 
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-== Gimmage == 
-  * Description: Minimalistic image viewer 
-  * Website: http://gimmage.berlios.de 
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-== gpicview == 
-  * Description: A Simple and Fast GTK+ Image Viewer 
-  * Website: http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview 
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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// 
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-== Mirage == 
-  * Description: Image viewer and editor 
-  * Website: http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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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/ 
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-===== Raster Graphics Editor ===== 
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-== Gimp == 
-  * Description: GNU Image Manipulation Program 
-  * Website: http://www.gimp.org 
-  * Remarks: heavie dependencies 
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-== mtPaint == 
-  * Description: Lightweight GtK+2 image manipulation program 
-  * Website: http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ 
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-== Pinta == 
-  * Description: easy to use drawing/editing program. 
-  * Website: http://pinta-project.com/ 
-  * Remarks: Mono Application 
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-===== Vector Graphics Editor ===== 
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-== Inkscape == 
-  * Description: Full featured open source SVG editor 
-  * Website: http://www.inkscape.org 
-  * Remarks: //Can pull *some* gnome dependencies Compile yourself to avoid them // 
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-===== Misc ===== 
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-== 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/ 
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-== Dia == 
-  * Description: A diagramming tool 
-  * Website: http://live.gnome.org/Dia 
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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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-====== Internet ====== 
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-===== E-Mail Clients ===== 
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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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-== 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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-== Geary  == 
-  * Description: A lightweight, easy-to-use, feature-rich email client 
-  * Website: http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/geary/wiki 
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-== Sylpheed == 
-  * Description: Slim but fully featured, GTK+ based Email Client (and News Reader) 
-  * Website: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en 
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-===== Web Browser ===== 
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-== Chrome / Chromium == 
-  * Description: lightweight Webbrowser with a minimal UI 
-  * Chromium: http://code.google.com/chromium/ 
-  * Chrome: https://www.google.de/chrome/browser/desktop 
-  * Remarks: Sponsored by Google, In case of Chrome almost all Media fetures available 
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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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-== Midori == 
-  * Description: A lightweight web browser based on WebKit 
-  * Website: http://www.twotoasts.de 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
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-== Pale Moon == 
-  * Description: based on Firefox but without Australis UI 
-  * Website: https://www.palemoon.org/ 
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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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-===== Feed Readers ===== 
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-== Liferea == 
-  * Description: A lightweight GTK+ RSS feed reader 
-  * Website: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/ 
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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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-===== File Sharing ===== 
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-==== Bittorrent ==== 
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-== Deluge == 
-  * Description: Full-featured, GTK+ native Bittorrent client 
-  * Website: http://deluge-torrent.org 
-  * Remarks: //python application// - It uses twise as memory as Transmission and has more dependences. Use  Transmission and if it did not satisfy your needs, use this. 
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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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-== 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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-===== Download Managers ===== 
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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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-===== Instant Messengers ===== 
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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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-== Gajim == 
-  * Description: Full-supported Jabber Client 
-  * Website: http://www.gajim.org/ 
-  * Remarks: //Python application// 
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-===== VOIP ===== 
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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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-== Linphone == 
-  * Description: A SIP/VoIP softphone with support for voice, video, and text instant messaging 
-  * Website: http://www.linphone.org/ 
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-===== IRC-Clients ===== 
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-== HexChat == 
-  * Description: A GTK+-2 based IRC client 
-  * Website: https://hexchat.github.io/ 
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-===== Misc ===== 
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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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-== 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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-====== Multimedia ====== 
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-===== Burning Software ===== 
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-== Bombono == 
-  * Description: DVD authoring program 
-  * Website: http://www.bombono.org/, http://sf.net/projects/bombono/ 
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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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-== SimpleBurn == 
-  * Description: a minimalistic CD/DVD burning program 
-  * Website: http://simpleburn.tuxfamily.org/ 
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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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-===== Music Playback ===== 
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-=== GStreamer === 
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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// 
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-== 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 player 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-=== 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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-=== 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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-=== Other === 
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-=== Other === 
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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+, Qt, 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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-== 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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-== 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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-== Qmmp == 
-  * Description: A lightweight audioplayer but it can also play videos via mplayer 
-  * Website: http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com 
-  * Remarks: Qt, Winamp Classic Skins 
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-== 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 
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-===== Video Playback ===== 
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-=== GStreamer === 
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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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-== Snappy == 
-  * Description: Video player based on clutter and GStreamer 
-  * Website: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Snappy 
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-=== 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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-=== 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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-== 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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-=== Other === 
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-== VLC media player == 
-  * Description: A media player supporting a large number of multimedia formats 
-  * Website: http://www.videolan.org 
-  * Remarks: Qt 
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-== 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 
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-== bomi == 
-  * Description: bomi is a graphical user interface(GUI) player based on mpv. 
-  * Website: https://bomi-player.github.io 
-  * Remarks: Qt 
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-===== 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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-== Thoggen == 
-  * Description: Simple and beautiful DVD ripping based on GStreamer and GTK+ 
-  * Website: http://thoggen.net/ 
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-== Transcoder == 
-  * Description: Simple video converter based on ffmpeg 
-  * Website: http://transcoder84.sourceforge.net/ 
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-== Transcoder Audio Edition == 
-  * Description: Simple audio converter based on ffmpeg 
-  * Website: http://transcoderae84.sourceforge.net/ 
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-===== Misc ===== 
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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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-== 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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-== mhWaveEdit == 
-  * Description: Program for playing, editing, and recording sound files 
-  * Website: http://gna.org/projects/mhwaveedit 
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-== Imagination == 
-  * Description: A lightweight and simple DVD and video slide-show maker  
-  * Website: http://imagination.sourceforge.net/ 
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-====== Office ====== 
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-===== Calendar ===== 
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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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-== Orage == 
-  * Description: Modern calendar application 
-  * Website: http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/ 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce Project** 
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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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-===== Dictionary ===== 
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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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-== OpenDict == 
-  * Description: Computer dictionary for several dictionary formats 
-  * Website: http://opendict.idiles.com 
-  * Remarks: //wxPython application// 
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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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-===== Document Viewers ===== 
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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/ 
- 
-== Xpdf == 
-  * Description: A basic PDF viewer for X11 
-  * Website: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf 
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-===== Misc ===== 
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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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-== 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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-== gfa == 
-  * Description: Small and fast address book 
-  * Website: http://gfa.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** 
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-== Osmo == 
-  * Description: Personal organizer that includes calendar, task manager and address book 
-  * Website: http://clayo.org/osmo/ 
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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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-== 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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-====== Development ====== 
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-===== File Comparison ===== 
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-== Diffuse == 
-  * Description: Graphical tool for merging and comparing text files 
-  * Website: http://diffuse.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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-===== Misc ===== 
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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/ 
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-== 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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-== 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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-====== System ====== 
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-===== Terminal Emulators ===== 
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-== Xfce4 Terminal == 
-  * Description: Vte based/gtk+-2 lightweight X-terminal 
-  * Website: http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start 
-  * Remarks: **Xfce project** 
-  * drop down is now part of the default terminal 
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-===== Display Managers ===== 
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-== LightDM == 
-  * Description: A lightweight display manager 
-  * Website: https://launchpad.net/lightdm 
-  * Remarks: not really lightweight on dependencies  
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-== SLiM == 
-  * Description: A very lightweight display manager 
-  * Website: https://github.com/data-modul/slim 
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-===== Network manager ===== 
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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 
-  * Remarks: only for Debian based systems  
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-== 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 
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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/ 
-  * Remarks: //python application// 
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-== 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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-===== Misc ===== 
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-== HardInfo == 
-  * Description: GTK+2 System information and benchmark tool 
-  * Website: http://hardinfo.berlios.de/HomePage 
  
-== xfce-polkit == 
-  * Description: A minimal policykit authentication agent. 
-  * Website: https://github.com/ncopa/xfce-polkit 
  
-== Meta Tracker == +===== How to contribute to the lists? ===== 
-  * Description: Tool designed to extract information and metadata about your personal data so that it can be searched easily and quickly +  * Login to [[https://alternativeto.net/account/login|alternativeto.net]] 
-  * Website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker+  * Add "Xfce" to the custom platform field of an application profile 
-  * Remarks: //The daemon does not require Gnome dependencies. To perform the searchesuse a tool like catfish. (viewed at: http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/13-applications-to-install-on-ubuntu.html)//+  * In addition to thatadd 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.
  
-== Font-manager == 
-  * Description: GTK+2 font-manager written in python 
-  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/