https://wiki.archlinux.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Alexj&feedformat=atomArchWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T20:38:52ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.41.0https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Lightweight_Applications&diff=142843Lightweight Applications2011-05-26T15:02:14Z<p>Alexj: /* Text Editors */ fixed link to pyroom in AUR</p>
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{{i18n|Lightweight Applications}}<br />
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Provides a list of lightweight software for those who wish to use programs that require less computer resources.<br />
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==Internet==<br />
===BitTorrent Clients===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of BitTorrent clients}}<br />
*{{App|[[aria2]]|Command-line download manager that supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and MetaLink protocols|http://aria2.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|aria2}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Deluge (software)|Deluge]]|User-friendly BitTorrent client written in Python and wrapped with PyGTK|http://deluge-torrent.org/|{{Package Official|deluge}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:QBittorrent|qBittorrent]]|The closest open source (GNU GPL v2 license) equivalent to µtorrent|http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|qbittorrent}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:RTorrent|rTorrent]]|Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client|http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/|{{Package Official|rtorrent}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Transmission (BitTorrent client)|Transmission]]|Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with (GTK+) GUI and CLI front-ends|http://www.transmissionbt.com/|{{Package Official|transmission}}}}<br />
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===Email clients===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of e-mail clients}}<br />
====Console====<br />
*{{App|[[Alpine]]|The Apache-licensed PINE (a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages)|http://www.washington.edu/alpine|{{Package Official|alpine}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Gnus|Gnus]]|mail, nntp, rss client for Emacs.|http://www.gnus.org/|[[package]]}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:mailx|heirloom-mailx]]|A full-featured command-line MUA derived from Berkeley Mail.|http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html|{{Package Official|mailx-heirloom}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[mutt]]|Small but very powerful text-based mail client.|http://www.mutt.org/|{{Package Official|mutt}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Sup]]|A CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and gmail like operation.|http://sup.rubyforge.org/|{{Package AUR|sup}}}}<br />
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====X11====<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Claws Mail|Claws Mail]]|A GTK+ based e-mail client|http://www.claws-mail.org/|{{Package Official|claws-mail}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Gnus|Gnus]]|mail, nntp, rss client for Emacs.|http://www.gnus.org/|[[package]]}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Sylpheed|Sylpheed]]|Lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client (GTK)|http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/|{{Package AUR|sylpheed}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Postler|Postler]]|simple desktop mail client built in vala.|http://git.xfce.org/apps/postler|[[postler]]}}<br />
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===Instant Messengers===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of instant messaging clients}}<br />
*{{App|[[Bitlbee]]|A way to use other IM to your [[#IRC]] client|http://www.bitlbee.org/|{{Package Official|bitlbee}}}}<br />
*{{App|Carrier|A fork of Pidgin with more options|http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net|{{Package AUR|carrier}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:CenterIM|CenterIM]]|A curses based fork of Centericq which supports several protocols|http://www.centerim.org/|{{Package Official|centerim}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Emesene|Emesene]]|A Python/GTK+ instant messenger for the Windows Live Messenger network|http://www.emesene.org/|{{Package Official|emesene}}}}<br />
*{{App|Finch|A curses based version of Pidgin|http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch|{{Package Official|finch}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Pidgin]]|A multiprotocol instant messenger|http://www.pidgin.im/|{{Package Official|pidgin}}}}<br />
*{{App|Pidgin Light|A light Pidgin version without gstreamer, tcl, tk, xscreensaver support|http://www.pidgin.im/|{{Package AUR|pidgin-light}}}}<br />
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===IRC===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of Internet_Relay_Chat_clients}}<br />
*{{App|Conspire|Lightweight, simple, and powerful|http://nenolod.net/|{{Package AUR|conspire-client}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Irssi]]|A modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting|http://irssi.org/|{{Package Official|irssi}}}}<br />
*{{App|ERC|A powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for [[Emacs]]|http://erc.sourceforge.net/|{{Package AUR|erc-git}}}}<br />
*{{App|II|Ultimate lightweight, literally `tail -f` the convo and `echo` back your replies|http://tools.suckless.org/ii|}}<br />
*{{App|Ircfs|A file system interface to irc written in [http://limbo.cat-v.org Limbo]|http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs|}}<br />
*{{App|LostIRC|A simple IRC client|http://lostirc.sourceforge.net|{{Package AUR|lostirc}}}}<br />
*{{App|ScrollZ|An advanced IRC client based on ircII|http://www.scrollz.com|{{Package AUR|scrollz}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[WeeChat]]|A fast, light & extensible curses-based IRC client|http://weechat.org/|{{Package Official|weechat}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:XChat|XChat]]|A GTK+ X client with Perl and Python scripting support|http://xchat.org|{{Package Official|xchat}}}}<br />
*{{App|pcw|A frontend for [http://tools.suckless.org/ii ii] that opens a new terminal for each channel (depends on [http://bitbucket.org/emg/srw srw] by default)|http://bitbucket.org/emg/pcw|}}<br />
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===Network Managers===<br />
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*{{App|[[Wicd|wicd]]|Manages wireless and wired interfaces, requiring fewer dependencies than other network managers. In addition to GUI interfaces, a curses version is also available.|http://wicd.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|wicd}}}}<br />
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===News Aggregators===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of feed aggregators}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Canto_(news_aggregator)|Canto]]|A ncurses RSS aggregator|http://codezen.org/canto/|{{Package AUR|canto}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Gnus|Gnus]]|A mail, nntp, rss client for Emacs|http://www.gnus.org/|{{Package AUR|emacs-gnus-git}}}}<br />
*{{App|Newsbeuter|A ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to mutt. Does not use the traditional 3 panes setup|http://www.newsbeuter.org/|{{Package Official|newsbeuter}}}}<br />
*{{App|Rawdog|A "RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur" that parses RSS/CDF/Atom feeds into a static HTML page of articles in date order|http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html|{{Package AUR|rawdog}}}}<br />
*{{App|Snownews|Text mode RSS newsreader|http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/|{{Package Official|snownews}}}}<br />
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===Web Browsers===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of web browsers}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Abaco (web browser)|Abaco]]|A multi-page graphical web browser|http://lab-fgb.com/abaco/|{{Package AUR|abaco}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Arora (browser)|Arora]]|A cross platform web browser built using Qt and WebKit|http://code.google.com/p/arora/|{{Package Official|arora}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Chromium]]|The middleweight, open-source project behind Google Chrome|http://code.google.com/chromium/|{{Package Official|chromium}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Conkeror|Conkeror]]|A highly programmable web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner|http://conkeror.org/|{{Package Official|conkeror}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Dillo|Dillo]]|A small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK|http://www.dillo.org/|{{Package Official|dillo}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:ELinks|ELinks]]|An advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser|http://elinks.or.cz/|{{Package Official|elinks}}}}<br />
*{{App|Hv3|A minimalist web browser based on tkhtml3|http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html|{{Package AUR|hv3}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Jumanji]]|A highly customizable and functional web browser|http://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji|{{Package AUR|jumanji}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Links (web browser)|Links]]|A text WWW browser, similar to Lynx|http://links.twibright.com/|{{Package Official|links}}}}<br />
*{{App|Luakit| A highly configurable, micro-browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible by Lua and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license|http://luakit.org/projects/luakit/|{{Package AUR|luakit}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Midori (web browser)|Midori]]| A lightweight web browser based on Gtk and WebKit. It passes the ACID3 test|http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html|{{Package Official|midori}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:NetSurf|NetSurf]]| A featherweight browser written in C. Notable is its lack of JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own custom rendering engine|http://www.netsurf-browser.org Netsurf|{{Package Official|netsurf}}}}<br />
*{{App|Sb|A very lightweight webkit-based browser that uses keybindings to perform most things the URL bar would usually do|https://github.com/mutantturkey/sb/|{{Package AUR|sb-git}}}} <br />
*{{App|Surf|Another lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the [[suck less philosophy|suckless ideology]]. Which means, the software is even more lightweight (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file)|http://surf.suckless.org|{{Package AUR|surf-hg}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Uzbl|Uzbl]]|Web interface tools which adhere to the unix philosophy|http://www.uzbl.org/|{{Package Official|uzbl-browser}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Vimprobable]]|A browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin available for Mozilla Firefox. It is based on the WebKit engine (using GTK bindings)|http://vimprobable.org/|{{Package AUR|vimprobable}}}}<br />
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==Multimedia==<br />
===Audio Players===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of audio player software}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:cmus|cmus]]|A very feature-rich ncurses-based music player|http://cmus.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|cmus}}}}<br />
*{{App|DeaDBeeF|A light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only and as well GTK2-gui, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor|http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|deadbeef}}}}<br />
*{{App|cplay|A curses front-end for various audio players|http://sourceforge.net/projects/cplay/|{{Package AUR|cplay}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Goggles Music Manager]]|A music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support|http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/|{{Package Official|gogglesmm}}}}<br />
*{{App|Herrie|A minimalistic console-based music player with native AudioScrobbler support|http://herrie.info/|{{Package AUR|herrie}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Moc]]|A ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, Ogg, and WAV formats|http://moc.daper.net/|{{Package Official|moc}}}}<br />
*{{App|Potamus|A lightweight, intuitive GTK+ audio player with an emphasis on high audio quality|http://offog.org/code/potamus.html|{{Package AUR|potamus}}}}<br />
*{{App|Pragha|A GTK+ music manager that was a fork of Consonance Music Manager|http://pragha.wikispaces.com/|{{Package Official|pragha}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Mpg123|Mpg123]]|A fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Hpux and near all other UNIX systems. Also decodes mp1 and mp2 files|http://www.mpg123.de/|{{Package Official|mpg123}}}}<br />
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[[mpd|MPD]] clients:<br />
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*{{App|Ario|A very feature-rich GTK2 client for [[mpd]], inspired by Rhythmbox|http://ario-player.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|ario}}}}<br />
*{{App|ncmpc|A curses client for [[mpd]]|http://hem.bredband.net/kaw/ncmpc/|{{Package Official|ncmpc}}}}<br />
*{{App|ncmpcpp|An almost exact clone of ncmpc with some new features|http://unkart.ovh.org/ncmpcpp/|{{Package Official|ncmpcpp}}}}<br />
*{{App|QmpdClient|A Qt4 based mpd client|http://bitcheese.net/wiki/QMPDClient|{{Package Official|qmpdclient}}}}<br />
*{{App|Sonata|An elegant GTK+ music client for [[mpd]]|http://sonata.berlios.de/|{{Package Official|sonata}}}}<br />
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===Image Editors===<br />
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*{{App|mtPaint|A a graphic editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art|http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|mtpaint}}}}<br />
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===Image Viewers===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of image viewers}}<br />
*{{App|[[Feh]]|A fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2|http://feh.finalrewind.org/|{{Package Official|feh}}}}<br />
*{{App|GpicView|A simple and fast image viewer for X. Made by the developers of [[LXDE]]|http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/|{{Package Official|gpicview}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:GQview|GQview]]|An image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree|http://gqview.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|gqview}}}}<br />
*{{App|Geeqie|An image browser/viewer fork of GQview. Adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files|http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|geeqie}}}}<br />
*{{App|Mirage|PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel|http://mirageiv.berlios.de|{{Package Official|mirage}}}}<br />
*{{App|Ristretto|A fast and lightweight picture-viewer for the Xfce desktop environment|http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/ristretto|{{Package Official|ristretto}}}}<br />
*{{App|QIV|A very small and fast gdk/Imlib image viewer|http://spiegl.de/qiv/|{{Package Official|qiv}}}}<br />
*{{App|Viewnior|Minimalistic GTK2 viewer featuring support for flip, rotate, animations and configurable mouse actions|http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/about.html|{{Package Official|viewnior}}}}<br />
*{{App|Xloadimage|The classic X image viewer|http://web.archive.org/web/19981207030422/http://world.std.com/~jimf/xloadimage.html|{{Package Official|xloadimage}}}}<br />
*{{App|SXIV|Simple X Image Viewer; works well with tiling window managers, uses imlib2|http://github.com/muennich/sxiv|{{Package AUR|sxiv}}}}<br />
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===Video Players===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of video player software}}<br />
*{{App|Gnome-Mplayer|A simple GTK-based GUI for [[mplayer]] without GNOME dependencies|http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/gnomemplayer|{{Package Official|gnome-mplayer}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[mplayer]]|Support a complete and versatile array of video/audio formats|http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html|{{Package Official|mplayer}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:SMPlayer|SMPlayer]]|A middleweight QT frontend for mplayer with additional patches|http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|smplayer}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:VLC media player|VLC media player]]|A middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio/video formats|http://www.videolan.org/vlc/|{{Package Official|vlc}}}}<br />
*{{App|Xnoise|A GTK+ media player for both audio and video with "a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.". Uses gstreamer.|http://www.xnoise-media-player.com/|{{Package AUR|xnoise}}}}<br />
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==Office==<br />
===Calendars===<br />
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*{{App|Pal|A very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces|http://palcal.sourceforge.net/|{{Package AUR|pal}}}}<br />
*{{App|Calcurse|A text-based curses calendar and scheduling system|http://calcurse.org/|{{Package Official|calcurse}}}}<br />
*{{App|Remind|A highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system|http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind|{{Package Official|remind}}}}<br />
*{{App|Wyrd|A curses front-end to Remind|http://pessimization.com/software/wyrd/|{{Package Official|wyrd}}}}<br />
*{{App|wxRewind|A Python text and graphical frontend to Remind|http://www.duke.edu/~dgraham/wxRemind/|{{Package AUR|wxremind}}}}<br />
*{{App|etm|Event and Task Manager. A "Getting Things Done" approach handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects|http://www.duke.edu/~dgraham/ETM/|{{Package AUR|etm}}}}<br />
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===PDF Tools===<br />
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*{{App|apvlv|A lightweight PDF viewer with VIM key bindings|http://code.google.com/p/apvlv/|{{Package Official|apvlv}}}}<br />
*{{App|ePDFView|A free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries|http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/|{{Package Official|epdfview}}}}<br />
*{{App|llpp|A very fast PDF reader based off of MuPDF, that supports continuous page scrolling, bookmarking, and text search through the whole document|http://repo.or.cz/w/llpp.git|{{Package AUR|llpp}}}}<br />
*{{App|MuPDF|A very fast PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. Features CJK font support|http://ccxvii.net/mupdf|{{Package Official|mupdf}}}}<br />
*{{App|Xpdf|A viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files|http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/|{{Package Official|xpdf}}}}<br />
*{{App|zathura|Another lightweight PDF viewer similar to apvlv, only lighter|http://zathura.pwmt.org/projects/zathura|{{Package Official|zathura}}}}<br />
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===Text Editors===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of text editors}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Acme (text editor)|Acme]]|A minimalist and flexible programming environment by Rob Pike|http://acme.cat-v.org|}}<br />
*{{App|[[Beaver]]|An Early AdVanced EditoR|http://www.nongnu.org/beaver/|{{Package Official|beaver}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Geany|Geany]]|A text editor using the GTK+ 2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment|http://www.geany.org|{{Package Official|geany}}}}<br />
*{{App|Edile|A PyGTK code/scripting editor implemented in one file|http://edile.googlecode.com|{{Package AUR|edile}}}}<br />
*{{App|Leafpad|A notepad clone for GTK+ 2.x that emphasizes simplicity|http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/|{{Package Official|leafpad}}}}<br />
*{{App|medit|A lightweight IDE text editor featuring support for tabs, sessions, plugins and syntax highlighting|http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|medit}}}}<br />
*{{App|Mousepad|A simple text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad|http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/|{{Package Official|mousepad}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[nano]]|A console text editor based with on-screen key binding help, a free clone of pico|http://www.nano-editor.org/|{{Package Official|nano}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:PyRoom|PyRoom]]|A great distractionless PyGTK text editor, a clone of the infamous WriteRoom|http://pyroom.org/|{{Package AUR|pyroom}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Sam (text editor)|Sam]]|A graphical text editor by Rob Pike (still used by Ken Thompson and others)|http://sam.cat-v.org|}}<br />
*{{App|[[Vim]]|The improved classic vi text editor|http://www.vim.org/|{{Package Official|vim}}}}<br />
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===Word Processors===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of word processors}}<br />
*{{App|[[Abiword]]|A full-featured word processor|http://www.abisource.com/|{{Package Official|abiword}}}}<br />
*{{App|Abiword Light|A lighter version of Abiword|http://www.abisource.com/|{{Package AUR|abiword-light}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Markdown|Markdown]]|A text-to-HTML conversion tool that allows you to write using a simple plain text format|http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown|{{Package AUR|markdown}}}}<br />
*{{App|pandoc|A swiss-army knife for converting one markup format into another (supports Markdown)|http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc|{{Package AUR|pandoc}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Txt2tags|txt2tags]]|A dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files|http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net|{{Package AUR|txt2tags}}}}<br />
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===Todo List Managers===<br />
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*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Org-mode|org-mode]]|An [[Emacs]] Mode for Notes, Project Planning, and Authoring|http://orgmode.org|{{Package AUR|emacs-org-mode}}}}<br />
*{{App|todo.txt|Manages your Todo list from the command line|http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/|{{Package AUR|todotxt}}}}<br />
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==System==<br />
===File Managers===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of file managers}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Emelfm2|emelFM2]]|A file manager that implements the popular two-panel design|http://emelfm2.net/|{{Package Official|emelfm2}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Midnight commander|Midnight Commander]]|A console-based, dual-paned, file manager|http://www.midnight-commander.org|{{Package Official|mc}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[PCManFM]]|A lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and can optionally manage the desktop background|http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|pcmanfm}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Ranger]]|A console based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features|http://nongnu.org/ranger|{{Package Official|ranger}}}}<br />
*{{App|ROX-Filer|A small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels|http://rox.sourceforge.net|{{Package Official|rox}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Thunar]]|Can be run as a daemon with excellent start up and directory load times. Features support for customizable actions|http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html|{{Package Official|thunar}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Vifm]]|A ncurses based two-pane file manager with vi like keybindings|http://vifm.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|vifm}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Xfe|Xfe]]|A MS-Explorer or Commander like file manager for X|http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/index.php/|{{Package Official|xfe}}}}<br />
*{{App|qtfm|A small, lightweight filemanager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt and works great with minimal desktop environments like Openbox|http://www.qtfm.org/|{{Package Official|qtfm}}}}<br />
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===GUI Compression Tools===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of file archivers}}<br />
*{{App|Xarchive|A GTK+ 2 front-end for various command line archiving tools|http://xarchive.sourceforge.net|{{Package AUR|xarchive}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Xarchiver|Xarchiver]]|A lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK+ 2. At the time of writing, it appears to be the most functional and up to date of the three tools listed here|http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|xarchiver}}}}<br />
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===CD/DVD Burning Tools===<br />
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{{Wikipedia|Comparison of disc authoring software}}<br />
*{{App|recorder|Simple frontend to cdrkit/cdrtools, cdrdao, mkisofs and growisofs with limited options and preferences|http://code.google.com/p/recorder/|{{Package Official|recorder}}}}<br />
*{{App|Xfburn|Simple frontend to the libburnia libraries with support for CD/DVD(-RW), ISO images and BurnFree|http://www.xfce.org/projects/xfburn/|{{Package Official|xfburn}}}}<br />
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===Login managers===<br />
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*{{App|[[CDM]]|An ultra-minimalistic, yet full-featured login manager written in bash|http://cdm.ghost1227.com/|{{Package AUR|cdm}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[SLiM]]|A lightweight and elegant graphical login solution|http://slim.berlios.de/|{{Package Official|slim}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Qingy]]|An ultralight and very configurable graphical login independent on X Windows|http://qingy.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|qingy}}}}<br />
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===Monitors===<br />
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*{{App|[[Conky]]|A lightweight, scriptable system monitor|http://conky.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|conky}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Htop|Htop]]|A simple, ncurses interactive process viewer|http://htop.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|htop}}}}<br />
*{{App|LXTask|A lightweight task manager for [[LXDE]]|http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask|{{Package Official|lxtask}}}}<br />
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===Panels===<br />
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*{{App|[[Bmpanel]]|A lightweight, NETWM compliant panel for the X11 system|http://nsf.110mb.com/bmpanel/|{{Package Official|bmpanel}}}}<br />
*{{App|fbpanel|A lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel|http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net|{{Package Official|fbpanel}}}}<br />
*{{App|LXPanel|A lightweight X11 desktop panel (part of [[LXDE]])|http://lxde.org/|{{Package Official|lxpanel}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[PyPanel]]|A lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C|http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/|{{Package Official|pypanel}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Tint]]|A simple panel/taskbar intentionally made for openbox3, but should also work with other window managers|http://code.google.com/p/tint2/|{{Package Official|tint}}}}<br />
*{{App|pancake|A highly configurable, modular panel for X|http://www.failedprojects.de/pancake/|{{Package AUR|pancake}}}}<br />
*{{App|qtpanel|A project to create useful and beautiful panel in Qt|https://gitorious.org/qtpanel|{{Package AUR|qtpanel-git}}}}<br />
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===Terminals===<br />
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*{{App|[[LilyTerm]]|A light and easy to use libvte based X Terminal Emulator|http://lilyterm.luna.com.tw/|{{Package Official|lilyterm}}}}<br />
*{{App|ROXTerm|A tabbed, VTE-based terminal emulator with a small footprint|http://rox.sourceforge.net|{{Package Official|roxterm}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[urxvt]]|A highly extendable unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, quake-style dropdown, pseudo-transparency, and is extensible with perl|http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode|{{Package Official|rxvt-unicode}}}}<br />
*{{App|Sakura|A terminal emulator based on GTK+ and VTE|http://www.pleyades.net/david/sakura.php|{{Package Official|sakura}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Xterm]]|A terminal emulator for the X Window System|http://invisible-island.net/xterm/|{{Package Official|xterm}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Wikipedia:Tilda (software)|Tilda]]|A Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life (to name a few), where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop until a key is pressed|http://sourceforge.net/projects/tilda/files/|{{Package Official|tilda}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Stjerm]]|is a GTK+-based drop-down terminal emulator. Stjerm sets itself apart from similar programs by providing a minimalistic interface combined with a small file size, lightweight memory usage and easy integration with composite window managers such as Compiz. |http://code.google.com/p/stjerm-terminal-emulator/downloads/list|}}<br />
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===Trays===<br />
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*{{App|Docker|A docking application which acts as a system tray|http://icculus.org/openbox/2/docker/|{{Package Official|docker}}}}<br />
*{{App|[[Stalonetray]]|A stand-alone system tray|http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net|{{Package Official|stalonetray}}}}<br />
*{{App|Trayer|Swallows GTK+ 1.2/2.x application docklets, and KDE docklets|http://gna.org/projects/fvwm-crystal/|{{Package Official|trayer}}}}<br />
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===Window managers===<br />
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[[Window Manager#List of window managers]]<br />
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==Games==<br />
[[Netbook Games List]]<br />
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==Links==<br />
[http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88515 Arch Linux Forums / LnF Awards 2010] - The best Light & Fast apps of 2010.</div>Alexjhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Quick_Arch_Linux_Install&diff=106845Quick Arch Linux Install2010-05-21T22:27:46Z<p>Alexj: /* Alternative install methods */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Getting and installing Arch (English)]]<br />
[[Category:HOWTOs (English)]]<br />
{{i18n|Quick Arch Linux Install}}<br />
This is a quick walk-through for those who do not yet know what Arch is and what it is capable of. It is written mainly for those people who already have an existing Windows partition on their hard drive and want to set up Arch Linux without harming the Windows install, and do not want too much hand holding.<br />
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This guide is for "normal" hardware; nothing special (e.g. SCSI) is documented.<br />
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Windows is assumed to exist on the first partition of the hard drive; otherwise, GRUB will not be able to find it.<br />
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==Requisites==<br />
* The Arch Linux Base-Installation-CD or Full-Installation-CD. Get it from [http://www.archlinux.org/download/ here].<br />
* Either one free hard disk or free space on one partition. You have to separate this free space from an existing partition in Windows with a partitioning utility (e.g. PartitionMagic).<br />
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==Installation from CD/USB stick==<br />
* Insert the CD/USB stick in your drive, reboot, and check that your BIOS will boot from the CD-ROM drive first.<br />
* It will present you with a menu. For the installation, choose the "Boot ArchLive" option. It will go through the process to set up the live system.<br />
*Now it should look like this:<br />
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http://home.arcor.de/Langeland/1.png<br />
Default Arch Live screen<br />
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To start the installation, login as root and type:<br />
# /arch/setup<br />
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If you got the net install (FTP) image, or wish to get the latest packages from the servers, choose net install. This is the preferred method. If you have the Core image, you can optionally install the packages on the CD/USB stick with the CD install option. If you use the net install, try to choose a server near to you physically. (e.g. ftp://cs.uwaterloo.com is closest for people in the Greater Toronto Area.)<br />
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The Main Menu will appear:<br />
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http://home.arcor.de/Langeland/6.png<br />
Main Menu<br />
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For the net install, you need to configure the network. If you have a DHCP server connected to your computer with an Ethernet cord, odds are the auto-configure will work automatically. You can also use ''ctrl-alt-F2'' to set up the network connection from the command line, using ''ctrl-alt-F1'' to go back to the installation script.<br />
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If you are installing from the CD/USB stick, there is no need to configure the network now.<br />
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===Partition===<br />
If you have an empty hard drive, you may skip these steps and choose Auto-Partitioning. Please note this will erase all partitions from your hard drive. If you want to keep any partition on your hard drive (Like saving a Windows install), follow the steps below:<br />
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* Select Prepare Hard Drive<br />
* Select Partition Hard Drive<br />
* Select the disk you want Arch Linux to be installed on<br />
* The cfdisk partitioning utility will open and allow you to create the partitions. For Arch base installation, there is only one partition needed. A swap partition is optional.<br />
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* At this point the display may look like this if you have an NTFS partition for Windows XP. Vista or Windows 7 may have 2 NTFS partitions.<br />
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http://home.arcor.de/Langeland/9.png<br />
cfdisk<br />
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* Do not touch the NTFS partition/s in any way; otherwise, you may lose Windows.<br />
* The type of the swap partition should be set to 82. Swap space is generally recommended to be twice the amount of RAM you have, but you can use less.<br />
* You must have at least one primary partition and a swap space is recommended. A safer setup is to have one primary partition of 100MB and all other partitions for Arch Linux can be logical partitions. The primary partition must be marked bootable.<br />
* If you want to quit cfdisk without saving anything, then select quit; otherwise, select write. Use quit if you accidentally change a setting on a Windows partition.<br />
* Remember which partitions you want to use for what. Note the partition's number to the right. (e.g. sda1, sda2, etc.)<br />
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===Mountpoints===<br />
* Select point 3: Set Filesystem Mountpoints<br />
* Select the partition you wish to use as '/' and use set it to mount to '/' (no quotes). The most common choice for file system is ext4, but any will work.<br />
* If you have a partitions to use as '/boot', set '/boot' (again, no quotes) as the mount point and ext2 is the recommended file system.<br />
* Select the partition to use as swap space, and choose the mount point of swap. No file system need be specified.<br />
* Select 'DONE'.<br />
''This last step is very important: many people skip this step, but no actions take place until you select 'DONE'. If you do not do this, the install will appear to work, but it will not install any files''.<br />
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===Packages===<br />
* Select Choose Packages (Or something similar - it is selected automatically after setting mount points).<br />
* Now it should look like this:<br />
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* For now, you should select only base. All packages already marked should not be unmarked unless you know you wont need them. Anything else you need not already marked should be installed later unless you need it for the setup.<br />
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===Installation===<br />
* This is rather easy: Just select install packages, select 'OK', and everything will be copied from the CD/server you selected to the file-system.<br />
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===Configuration===<br />
* Choose nano to edit the files unless you already know Vi. Nano's commands are listed at the bottom and you use the arrow keys to move the cursor. '' You have to edit the rc.conf'' if you want to change your keyboard layout. For example, de is German.<br />
* Set a host name in the 'HOSTNAME=' field. (e.g. HOSTNAME='Taco')<br />
* nano is easy to understand: (Ctrl-X) saves the file and exits nano.<br />
* Be sure to change the root password in the last step.<br />
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===GRUB===<br />
When you are done editing the config files, choose the 'Install Bootloader' option from the main menu.<br />
* Choose to install GRUB unless you will setup a bootloader yourself. If you do not install a new bootloader, only Windows will boot.<br />
* You will see a file like this:<br />
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http://home.arcor.de/Langeland/13.png <br />
Menu.lst<br />
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* Everything should be set up correctly to boot into Arch To dual boot, uncomment the following section at the end (remove the # symbol from the beginning of the line:<br />
#title Windows<br />
rootnoverify (hd0,0)<br />
chainloader +1<br />
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Save it and quit nano.<br />
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===Reboot===<br />
* Choose done at the main menu, type reboot, and the computer should reboot.<br />
* Remove the CD before it tries to boot from it again.<br />
* You should be able to choose between Windows and Arch; default is Arch. The timeout is 5 seconds.<br />
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==Alternative install methods==<br />
* [[Fast Arch Install from existing Linux System]]<br />
* [[Official Arch Linux Install Guide]]<br />
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==Alternative instructions==<br />
Here is a video installation if helps you to visualize: [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DA2E5D14813CAF5C YouTube ArchLinux Installation]</div>Alexj