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.

There is a secondary page with suggested command line tools, but only for the console-guru inside you.

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

• Description: Quake-styled Terminal
• Website: http://tilda.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

• Description: Keyboard layout indicator and switcher
• Website: http://fbxkb.sourceforge.net/

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

• Description: Utility to show live keyboard and mouse status for teaching and screencasts
• Website: http://code.google.com/p/key-mon/

• Description: Graphical version of su written in C and GTK+ 2
• Website: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ktsuss/
• Remarks: does not set environment variables(see here for fixes)

• Description: A lightweight display manager
• Website: https://launchpad.net/lightdm

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

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

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

• Description: A 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

• Description: GTK+2 password manager tool
• Website: http://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/

• Description: GTK+2 font-manager written in python
• Website: http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/

• Description: A GTK+ Runlevel-Editor
• Website: http://www.marzocca.net/linux/bum.html
• Remarks: Debian-like System

• Description: Tile windows in different ways
• http://www.giuspen.com/x-tile/

• Description: A dictionary, spelling checker and speed reader application
• Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict
• Remarks: Xfce project

• Description: Modern calendar application
• Website: http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/
• Remarks: Xfce Project

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

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

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

• Description: Document Processor, an almost-WYSIWYG frontend to LaTeX
• Website: http://www.lyx.org/

• Description: Graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts
• Website: http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/

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

• Description: Hierarchical note manager (aka. outliner)
• Website: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/
• Remarks: Notecase discontinued. NotecasePro is not Free Software

• Description: Personal organizer that includes calendar, task manager and address book
• Website: http://clayo.org/osmo/

• Description: Calendar with reminder and scheduled alarms
• Website: http://www.day-planner.org/
• Remarks: Perl application

• Description: Full-featured and easy to use calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit
• Website: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

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

• 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.

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

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

• Description: A JAVA/GTK+ PDF-Editor
• Website: http://www.cabaret-solutions.com/en/downloads
• Remarks: NON-FREE(only free for non commercial use)

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

• Description: A lean mail reader with an opinionated interface
• Website: https://bugs.launchpad.net/postler
• Remarks: Affiliated with Elementary Project

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

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

• 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)

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

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

• Description: Lightweight GTK+ Bittorrent client
• Website: http://code.google.com/p/linkage/
• Remarks: written in C++ using libgtkmm and libtorrent, homepage shows it is not maintained (18 Nov 09)

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

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

• Description: 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.

• Description: download manager written in GTK+, it has many features.
• Website: http://urlget.sourceforge.net/

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

• Description: An audio/video and chat communicator that supports many protocols (SIP, XMPP, etc.)
• Website: http://jitsi.org/
• Remarks: Formerly known as SIP Communicator

• Description: A SIP/VoIP softphone with support for voice, video, and text instant messaging
• Website: http://www.linphone.org/

• Description: A lightweight Twitter-client written in Vala
• Website: http://pino-app.appspot.com/index

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Description: A secure and free cross-platform online backup, sync and storage solution
• Website: https://spideroak.com/

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

• Description: lightweight & fast WebKit-based Webbrowser
• Website: http://code.google.com/chromium/

• Description: multimedia framework
• Website: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
• Remarks: many frontends.

• Description: Media player based on GStreamer
• Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/parole
• Remarks: Xfce Project

• Description: Media player based on GStreamer
• Website: http://foobnix.appspot.com/news/eng
• Remarks: python application

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

• Description: Audio player based on GStreamer
• Website: http://mesk.nicfit.net
• Remarks: python application

• 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/

• Description: GTK+ audio only player
• Website: http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet
• Remarks: python application

• Description: multimedia playback engine
• Website: http://www.xine-project.org
• Remarks: comes with a frontend(xine-ui)

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

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

• Description: GTK+ media player
• Website: http://www.xine-project.org

• Description: media player
• Website: http://www.mplayerhq.hu
• Remarks: comes with a GTK+ frontend(gmplayer)

• 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/

• Description: runs in the background playing music from its playlist.
• Website: http://mpd.wikia.com
• Remarks: Has many front ends

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

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

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

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

• Description: runs in the background playing music from its playlist.
• Website: http://xmms2.org
• Remarks: Has many front ends

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

• Description: A fork and rewrite of Beep Media Player
• Website: http://audacious-media-player.org
• Remarks: comes with a GTK+ UI

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

• Description: Ultimate Music Player For GNU/Linux
• Website: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
• Remark: It has Foobar-like interface

• Description: lightweight GTK+ music manager/player
• Website: http://pragha.wikispaces.com/

• Description: Lightweight audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality
• Website: http://offog.org/code/potamus.html

• Description: A media player supporting a large number of multimedia formats
• Website: http://www.videolan.org
• Remarks: Qt4

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

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

• Description: DVD authoring program
• Website: http://www.bombono.org/, http://sf.net/projects/bombono/

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

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

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

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

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

• Description: Multithreaded video transcoder
• Website: http://handbrake.fr/

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

• Description: Simple video converter based on ffmpeg
• Website: http://transcoder84.sourceforge.net/

• Description: Simple audio converter based on ffmpeg
• Website: http://transcoderae84.sourceforge.net/

• Description: Program for playing, editing, and recording sound files
• Website: http://gna.org/projects/mhwaveedit

• Description: A lightweight and simple DVD and video slide-show maker
• Website: http://imagination.sourceforge.net/

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

• Description: a fast and simple image viewer similar to Ristretto
• Website: http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/

• Description: (archived) Image viewer
• Website: http://comix.sourceforge.net/index.html
• Remarks: Discontinued, see MComix below

• Description: (archived) Image viewer
• Website: http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/

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

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

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

• Description: Lightweight image viewer. It was forked from GQview.
• Website: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/

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

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

• Description: A Simple and Fast GTK+ Image Viewer
• Website: http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview

• Description: Lightweight GtK+2 image manipulation program
• Website: http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

• Description: An image browser for X
• Website: http://gqview.sourceforge.net
• Remarks: Does not currently appear to be under active development

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

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

• Description: Graphical tool for merging and comparing text files
• Website: http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/

• Description: Fast and lightweight IDE
• Website: http://www.geany.org/

• Description: An Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets
• Website: http://madedit.sourceforge.net/

• Description: Lightweight HEX-Editor
• Website: http://heraia.tuxfamily.org/

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

• Description: Graphical diff and merge tool
• Website: http://meld.sourceforge.net/
• Remark: written in Python (PyGTK)

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

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

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

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

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

• Description: An archive manager for Xfce
• Website: http://squeeze.xfce.org/
• Remarks: Xfce project Does not currently appear to be under active development

• Description: Simple archive manager
• Website: http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/

• Description: Full featured archive manager
• Website: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/
• Remarks: Has no dependencies on Gnome libraries Now depends on Nautilus

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

• Description: GTK+ or Qt4 based Widget-Engine
• Website: http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/

• Description: GNU Privacy Assistant is a graphical frontend for the GNU Privacy Guard (gpg)
• Website: http://www.gnupg.org

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

• Description: Utility for computing message digests or checksums
• Website: http://gtkhash.sourceforge.net/

• Description: A unified GUI for the R programming language, based on Java
• Website: http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/JGR/index.html

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

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

• Description: An 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/
• Remarks: Tk based Front-End, Open Source Software, GNU General Public License

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

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

• Description: An intuitive and powerful integrated development environment (IDE) for R
• Website: http://www.rstudio.org/

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

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