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Terminal

Command shells

See the main article: Command-line shell.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of command shells.

Terminal emulators

Terminal emulators show a GUI Window that contains a terminal. Most emulate Xterm, which in turn emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter. For further background information, see Wikipedia:Terminal emulator.

For a comprehensive list, see Wikipedia:List of terminal emulators.

• Alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty || alacritty-git^AUR

• aterm — Xterm replacement with transparency support. It has been deprecated in favour of urxvt since 2008.

http://aterm.sourceforge.net/ || aterm^AUR

• Cool Retro Term — A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term || cool-retro-term

• Eterm — Terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm and designed for the Enlightenment desktop.

http://eterm.org || eterm^AUR

• Gate One — Web-based terminal emulator and SSH client.

https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne || gateone-git^AUR

• Hyper — A terminal with JS/CSS support.

https://github.com/zeit/hyper || hyper^AUR

• Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.

https://www.kde.org/applications/system/konsole/ || konsole

• kitty — A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty || kitty

• mlterm — A multi-lingual terminal emulator supporting various character sets and encodings in the world.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlterm/ || mlterm^AUR

• PuTTY — Highly configurable ssh/telnet/serial console program.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ || putty

• QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.

https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal || qterminal

• rxvt — Popular replacement for the xterm.

http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ || rxvt^AUR

• shellinabox — A web-based SSH Terminal

https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox || shellinabox-git^AUR

• st — Simple terminal implementation for X.

http://st.suckless.org || st^AUR

• Terminology — Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology || terminology

• urxvt — Highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, a Quake style drop-down mode and pseudo-transparency.

http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html || rxvt-unicode

• xterm — Simple terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ || xterm

• Yakuake — Drop-down terminal (Quake style) emulator based on Konsole.

https://yakuake.kde.org/ || yakuake

VTE-based

VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) is a widget developed during early GNOME days for use in the GNOME Terminal. It has since given birth to many terminals with similar capabilities.

• Deepin Terminal — Terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-terminal/ || deepin-terminal

• evilvte — Very lightweight and highly customizable terminal emulator with support for tabs, auto-hiding and different encodings.

http://calno.com/evilvte/ || evilvte-git^AUR

• Germinal — Minimalist terminal emulator which provides a borderless maximized terminal, attached to a tmux session by default, hence providing tabs and panels.

http://www.imagination-land.org/tags/germinal.html || germinal^AUR

• GNOME Terminal — A terminal emulator included in the GNOME desktop with support for Unicode and pseudo-transparency.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal || gnome-terminal

• Guake — Drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop.

http://guake-project.org/ || guake

• LXTerminal — Desktop independent terminal emulator for LXDE.

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal || lxterminal

• MATE terminal — A fork of Wikipedia:GNOME terminal for the MATE desktop.

http://www.mate-desktop.org/ || mate-terminal

• Pantheon Terminal — A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal emulator. It's designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration.

https://github.com/elementary/terminal || pantheon-terminal

• ROXTerm — Tabbed terminal emulator with a small footprint.

http://roxterm.sourceforge.net/ || roxterm^AUR

• sakura — Terminal emulator based on GTK+ and VTE.

http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura || sakura

• Terminator — Terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panels.

https://gnometerminator.blogspot.com/ || terminator

• Termite — Keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

https://github.com/thestinger/termite || termite

• Tilda — Configurable drop down terminal emulator.

https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/ || tilda

• Tilix — Tiling terminal emulator for GNOME.

https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ || tilix

• tinyterm — Very lightweight terminal emulator based on VTE.

https://github.com/lahwaacz/tinyterm || tinyterm-git^AUR

• Xfce Terminal — Terminal emulator included in the Xfce desktop with support for a colorized prompt and a tabbed interface.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start || xfce4-terminal

KMS-based

The following terminal emulators are based on the kernel mode setting that could be invoked without X.

• KMSCON — A KMS/DRM-based system console(getty) with an integrated terminal emulator for Linux operating systems.

https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon || kmscon^AUR

framebuffer-based

In GNU/Linux world, the framebuffer could be refered to a virtual device in the Linux kernel (fbdev) or the virtual framebuffer system for X (xvfb). This section mainly lists the terminal emulators that based on the in-kernel virtual device, i.e. fbdev.

• yaft — A simple terminal emulator for living without X, with UCS2 glyphs, wallpaper and 256color support.

https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft || yaft^AUR

Terminal pagers

See also Wikipedia:Terminal pager.

• more — A simple and feature-light pager. It is a part of util-linux.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/about/ || util-linux

• less^{[broken link: invalid section]} — A program similar to more, but with support for both forward and backward scrolling, as well as partial loading of files.

https://www.gnu.org/software/less/ || less

• most — A pager with support for multiple windows, left and right scrolling, and built-in colour support

http://www.jedsoft.org/most/ || most

• mcview — A pager with mouse and colour support. It is bundled with midnight commander.

http://midnight-commander.org/ || mc

• vimpager — A script that turns vim into a pager. As a result, you get various vim features such as colour schemes, mouse support, split screens, etc.

https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager || vimpager

Terminal multiplexers

See also Wikipedia:Terminal multiplexer.

• abduco — Tool for session attach and detach support which allows a process to run independently from its controlling terminal.

http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/ || abduco

• byobu — An GPLv3 licensed addon for tmux or screen. It requires a terminal multiplexer installed.

http://byobu.co/ || byobu^AUR

• dtach — Program that emulates the detach feature of screen.

http://dtach.sourceforge.net/ || dtach

• dvtm — dwm-style window manager in the console.

http://brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ || dvtm

• GNU Screen — Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ || screen

• mtm — Simple terminal multiplexer with just four commands: change focus, split, close, and screen redraw.

https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm || mtm-git^AUR

• tmux — BSD licensed terminal multiplexer.

http://tmux.github.io/ || tmux

Files

File managers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file managers.

Console

• Clex — File manager with full-screen user interface

http://www.clex.sk/ || clex^AUR

• Dired — Directory editor integrated with Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html || emacs

• dired — Ancient DIRectory EDitor since 1980.

http://fossies.org/linux/misc/old/ || dired^AUR

• Last File Manager — Powerful file manager written in Python 3 with a curses interface.

https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/ || lfm3-hg^AUR

• lf — Terminal file manager written in Go using server/client architecture.

https://github.com/gokcehan/lf || lf-git^AUR

• Midnight Commander — Console-based, dual-paneled file manager.

http://www.midnight-commander.org || mc

• nffm — "Nothing Fancy File Manager", a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.

https://github.com/mariostg/nffm || nffm-git^AUR

• Pilot — File manager that comes with the Alpine email client.

https://www.washington.edu/alpine/ || alpine^AUR

• Ranger — Console-based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features.

http://nongnu.org/ranger || ranger

• Vifm — Ncurses-based two-panel file manager with vi-like keybindings.

http://vifm.info || vifm

Graphical

• Caja — The file manager for the MATE desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja || caja

• Deepin File Manager — File manager developed for Deepin.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-file-manager/ || deepin-file-manager

• Dolphin — File manager included in the KDE desktop.

https://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin || dolphin

• Double Commander — File manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net// || GTK+: doublecmd-gtk2, Qt5: doublecmd-qt5

• emelFM2 — File manager that implements the popular two-panel design.

http://emelfm2.net/ || emelfm2

• Gentoo — A lightweight file manager for GTK.

http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/ || gentoo^AUR

• GNOME Commander — A dual-paned file manager for the GNOME Desktop.

http://gcmd.github.io/ || gnome-commander^AUR

• GNOME Files — Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Files || nautilus

• Konqueror — File manager and web browser for the KDE desktop.

http://www.konqueror.org/ || konqueror

• Krusader — Advanced twin panel (Midnight Commander style) file manager for the KDE desktop.

http://www.krusader.org/ || krusader

• Liri Files — The file manager for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/files || liri-files

• muCommander — A lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface written in Java.

http://www.mucommander.com/ || mucommander^AUR

• Nemo — Nemo is the file manager of the Cinnamon desktop. A fork of Nautilus.

http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ || nemo

• Pantheon Files — File browser designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/elementary/files || pantheon-files

• PathFinder — File browser that comes with the FOX toolkit.

http://fox-toolkit.org/ || fox

• PCManFM — Lightweight file manager which features tabbed and dual pane browsing; also it can optionally manage the desktop icons and background.

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM || pcmanfm

• qtFM — Small, lightweight filemanager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt.

http://www.qtfm.org/ || qtfm^AUR

• ROX — Small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels.

http://rox.sourceforge.net || rox

• SpaceFM — GTK+ multi-panel tabbed file manager.

http://ignorantguru.github.com/spacefm/ || spacefm^AUR

• Sunflower — Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins.

http://sunflower-fm.org/ || sunflower^AUR

• Thunar — File manager that can be run as a daemon with excellent start up and directory load times.

http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start || thunar

• trolCommander — Lightweight, cross-platform file manager written in Java (Successor of muCommander)

https://github.com/trol73/mucommander || trolcommander^AUR

• Tux Commander — Windowed file manager with two panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.

http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/description.php || tuxcmd

• Worker — Fast, lightweight and feature-rich file manager for the X Window System.

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker/ || worker^AUR

• Xfe — Microsoft Explorer-like file manager for X (X File Explorer).

http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/ || xfe^AUR

Trash management

• trash-cli — A command-line interface implementing FreeDesktop.org's Trash specification.

https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli || trash-cli

File synchronization

See also Synchronization and backup programs#Data synchronization and Wikipedia:Comparison of file synchronization software.

• FreeFileSync — Folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.

https://www.freefilesync.org/ || freefilesync^AUR

• git-annex — Manage files with git, without checking the file contents into git.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/ || git-annex

• hsync — Command line program to sync only those files that have been renamed/moved but otherwise unchanged. It works by issuing simple move operations at the destination without actually transferring the files, and is meant to be used in conjunction with other synchronization programs that lack this capability.

https://ambrevar.bitbucket.io/hsync/ || hsync^AUR

• rclone — Command line program to sync files and directories to and from Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Yandex Disk and many other cloud storage services as well as between local paths.

https://rclone.org/ || rclone

• rsync — File transfer program that uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.

https://rsync.samba.org/ || rsync

• SparkleShare — File sharing and collaboration application written in C#. It can sync with any Git server over SSH.

http://sparkleshare.org/ || sparkleshare

• Syncthing — Continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in a simple way without advanced configuration.

https://syncthing.net/ || Web: syncthing, GTK+: syncthing-gtk

• Syncany — Cloud storage and filesharing application with a focus on security and abstraction of storage.

https://www.syncany.org/ || syncany^AUR

• Synkron — Application that helps you keep your files and folders always updated. You can easily sync your documents, music or pictures to have their latest versions everywhere.

http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ || synkron^AUR

• Unison — File synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ || unison

Archiving and compression tools

For archiving and compression command-line tools, see Archiving and compression.

Archive managers

• Ark — Archiving tool included in the KDE desktop.

https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/ark/ || ark

• Engrampa — Archive manager for MATE

https://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa || engrampa

• File Roller — Archive manager included in the GNOME desktop.

http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/ || file-roller

• p7zip-gui — The GUI belonging to the p7zip software.

http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ || p7zip-gui^AUR

• PeaZip — Open source file and archive manager.

http://www.peazip.org/peazip-linux.html || GTK+: peazip-gtk2^AUR, Qt: peazip-qt^AUR

• Squeeze — Featherweight front-end for commandline archiving tools.

http://squeeze.xfce.org/ || squeeze-git^AUR

• Xarchiver — Lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK+.

https://github.com/ib/xarchiver || GTK+ 3: xarchiver, GTK+ 2: xarchiver-gtk2

Comparison, diff, merge

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file comparison tools.

For managing pacnew/pacsave files, specialised tools exist. See Pacnew and Pacsave files#Managing .pacnew files.

• colordiff — A Perl script wrapper for 'diff' that produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting.

http://www.colordiff.org/ || colordiff

• Diffuse — Small and simple text merge tool written in Python.

http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/ || diffuse

• KDiff3 — File and directory diff and merge tool for the KDE desktop.

http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ || kdiff3

• Kompare — GUI front-end program for viewing and merging differences between source files. It supports a variety of diff formats and provides many options to customize the information level displayed.

http://www.caffeinated.me.uk/kompare/ || kompare

• Meld — Visual diff and merge tool that can compare files, directories, and version controlled projects.

http://meldmerge.org/ || meld

• xxdiff — A graphical browser for file and directory differences.

http://furius.ca/xxdiff/ || xxdiff^AUR

Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and ediff.

Batch renamers

• GPRename — GTK+ batch renamer for files and directories.

http://gprename.sourceforge.net || gprename

• KRename — Very powerful batch file renamer for the KDE desktop.

http://www.krename.net || krename

• metamorphose2 — wxPython based batch renamer with support for regular expressions, renaming multimedia files according to their metadata, etc.

http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net || metamorphose2^AUR

• pyRenamer — Application for the mass renaming of files.

https://github.com/SteveRyherd/pyRenamer || pyrenamer^AUR

• rename.pl — Batch renamer based on perl regex.

http://search.cpan.org/~pederst/rename/bin/rename.PL || perl-rename

• Thunar Bulk Rename — Change the name of multiple files at once using some criterion that applies to at least one of the files. Run with thunar -B.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/bulk-renamer/start || thunar

Finders

See also Wikipedia:List of search engines#Desktop search engines.

• Baloo — KDE's file indexing and search solution.

https://community.kde.org/Baloo || baloo

• Basenji — Volume indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of CD/DVD and other type of volume collections.

https://github.com/pulb/basenji || basenji^AUR

• Catfish — Versatile file searching tool by Xfce.

https://launchpad.net/catfish-search || catfish

• Docfetcher — Java desktop search application.

http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net || docfetcher^AUR

• fuzzy-find — Fuzzy completion for finding files.

https://github.com/silentbicycle/ff || ff-git^AUR

• fzf — General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf || fzf fzf-git^AUR

• GNOME Search Tool — GNOME utility to search for files.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-search-tool || gnome-search-tool

• KFind — Standalone search tool for KDE to find files by name, type or content.

https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kfind/ || kfind

• Recoll — Full text search tool based on Xapian backend.

https://lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ || recoll

• Searchmonkey — Powerful GUI search utility for matching regex patterns.

http://searchmonkey.sourceforge.net/ || searchmonkey^AUR

• Tracker — All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker || tracker

• Zeitgeist — Event aggregation framework for the user's activities and notifications (files opened, websites visited, conversations hold with other people, etc.) and makes the relevant information available to other applications.

https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-project || zeitgeist

Development

Integrated development environments

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of integrated development environments.

• Anjuta — Versatile IDE with project management, an application wizard, an interactive debugger, a source editor, version control support and many more tools.

http://anjuta.org/ || anjuta

• Aptana Studio — IDE based on Eclipse, but geared towards web development, with support for HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Adobe AIR and others.

http://www.aptana.com/ || aptana-studio^AUR

• Bluefish — Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. It supports many programming and markup languages.

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ || bluefish

• Bluej — Fully featured Java IDE used mainly for educational and beginner purposes.

https://bluej.org/ || bluej^AUR

• Code::Blocks — C, C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.

http://codeblocks.org/ || codeblocks

• CLion — A cross-platform IDE for C and C++.

http://www.jetbrains.com/clion || clion^AUR

• CodeLite — Open source and cross-platform C/C++/PHP and Node.js IDE written in C++ .

http://www.codelite.org/ || codelite^AUR

• Cloud9 — State-of-the-art IDE that runs in your browser and lives in the cloud, allowing you to run, debug and deploy applications from anywhere, anytime.

https://c9.io/ || c9.core^AUR

• Eclipse — IDE for Java, C/C++, PHP, Perl and Python with subversion support and task management.

https://www.eclipse.org/ || Java EE: eclipse-jee, Java: eclipse-java, C/C++: eclipse-cpp, PHP: eclipse-php, JavaScript and Web: eclipse-javascript

• Eric — Full-featured Python and Ruby IDE written in PyQt5.

https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric

• Gambas — IDE based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions.

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html || gambas3-ide

• Geany — Small and lightweight IDE with many supported many programming and markup languages including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal.

https://geany.org/ || geany

• GNOME Builder — Tool to write and contribute to great GNOME-based applications.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder || gnome-builder

• IntelliJ IDEA — IDE for Java, Groovy and other programming languages with advanced refactoring features.

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ || intellij-idea-community-edition

• KDevelop — Feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.

https://www.kdevelop.org/ || kdevelop

• Komodo Edit — A free, multi-language editor.

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit || komodo-edit^AUR

• KTurtle — Educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easily as possible. Part of kdeedu.

https://www.kde.org/applications/education/kturtle/ || kturtle

• Lazarus — Delphi (Object Pascal) compatible IDE for Rapid Application Development. It has variety of components ready for use and a graphical form designer to easily create complex graphical user interfaces.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ || lazarus

• LiteIDE — Simple Go IDE.

https://github.com/visualfc/liteide || liteide

• MonoDevelop — Cross-platform IDE targeted for the Mono and .NET frameworks.

http://monodevelop.com/ || monodevelop-git^AUR

• MPLAB — IDE for Microchip PIC and dsPIC development

http://www.microchip.com/mplabx || microchip-mplabx-bin^AUR

• Netbeans — IDE for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and other languages.

https://netbeans.org/ || netbeans

• Ninja-IDE — IDE for Python development.

http://ninja-ide.org/ || ninja-ide

• PHPStorm — JetBrains PhpStorm is a commercial, cross-platform IDE for PHP built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform, providing an editor for PHP, HTML and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis, error prevention and automated refactorings for PHP and JavaScript code.

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ || phpstorm^AUR phpstorm-eap^AUR

• PyCharm — Python IDE with support for code analysis, debugging, unit testing, version control and web development with Django.

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ || pycharm-community-edition

• Qt Creator — Lightweight, cross-platform C++ integrated development environment with a focus on Qt.

https://www.qt.io/ide/ || qtcreator

• Scratch — Programming system and content development tool for educational and entertainment purposes, such as creating interactive projects and simple sprite-based games. It is used primarly by unskilled users (such as children) as an entry to event-driven programming.

https://scratch.mit.edu/ || scratch

• Spyder — Scientific Python Development Environment providing MATLAB-like features.

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder || spyder2 (Python 2) or spyder3 (Python 3)

• Thonny — Python IDE for beginners.

http://thonny.org/ || thonny^AUR

• WingIDE — Proprietary python development environment. It is fully featured and meant for professional use.

http://www.wingware.com || wingide^AUR

GUI builders

• FLUID — FLTK GUI designer.

http://www.fltk.org/ || fltk

• Glade — Create or open user interface designs for GTK+ applications.

https://glade.gnome.org/ || glade

• KUIViewer — Quick viewer for Qt Designer UI File.

https://userbase.kde.org/KUIViewer || kde-dev-utils

• Qt Designer — Tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Qt Widgets.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdesigner-manual.html || qt5-tools

Hex editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of hex editors.

• Bless — High quality, full featured hex editor.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170503150524/http://home.gna.org/bless/ || bless

• GHex — Hex editor for GNOME, which allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in either hex or ascii.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Ghex || ghex

• hyx — Minimalistic but powerful console hex editor.

https://yx7.cc/code/ || hyx^AUR

• Okteta — KDE hex editor for viewing and editing the raw data of files.

https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/okteta/ || okteta

JSON tools

• gron — gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep.

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron || gron-bin^AUR

• jid — JSON incremental digger

https://github.com/simeji/jid || jid^AUR

• jo — A command to create JSON.

https://github.com/jpmens/jo || jo-git^AUR

• jq — Command-line JSON processor

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ || jq

• jsawk — Like awk, but for JSON.

https://github.com/micha/jsawk || jsawk-git^AUR

• jshon — A JSON parser for the shell.

http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ || jshon

• the Elvish shell (elvish^AUR) has built-in support for JSON

Debuggers

• Accerciser — Interactive Python accessibility explorer. It uses the AT-SPI library to inspect, examine, and interact with widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated testing frameworks.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Accerciser || accerciser

• Alleyoop — Find memory-management problems in your programs using the valgrind tool.

http://alleyoop.sourceforge.net/ || alleyoop

• Bustle — Draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the duration of each method call.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Bustle/ || bustle-git^AUR

• Data Display Debugger — Graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ || ddd^AUR

• GammaRay — Qt-application inspection and manipulation tool.

https://www.kdab.com/development-resources/qt-tools/gammaray/ || gammaray

• D-Feet — Easy to use D-Bus debugger to inspect D-Bus interfaces of running programs and invoke methods on those interfaces.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DFeet || d-feet

• KCachegrind — Profile data visualization tool, used to determine the most time consuming execution parts of program.

https://www.kde.org/applications/development/kcachegrind/ || KDE: kcachegrind, Qt: qcachegrind

• KDbg — Graphical user interface to GDB, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code.

http://kdbg.org/ || kdbg

• Massif-Visualizer — Visualizer for Valgrind Massif data files.

https://phabricator.kde.org/source/massif-visualizer/ || massif-visualizer

• Nemiver — Easy to use standalone C/C++ debugger (GDB front-end) that integrates well in the GNOME environment.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nemiver || nemiver

• Qt QDbusViewer — Tool to introspect D-Bus objects and messages.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdbusviewer.html || qt5-tools

• scanmem — Debugging utility designed to isolate the address of an arbitrary variable in an executing process.

https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem || CLI: scanmem, GUI: gameconqueror

• Sysprof — Profiling tool that helps in finding the functions in which a program uses most of its time.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Sysprof || sysprof

UML modelers

See also Wikipedia:List of Unified Modeling Language tools.

• ArgoUML — UML modeling tool with support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams.

http://argouml.tigris.org/ || argouml^AUR

• Eclipse Modeling Tools — Tools and runtimes for building model-based applications.

https://www.eclipse.org/ || eclipse-modeling-tools^AUR

• Modelio — Modeling environment supporting the main standards: UML, BPMN, MDA, SysML.

https://www.modelio.org/ || modelio-bin^AUR

• Papyrus — Model-based engineering tool based on Eclipse.

https://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/ || papyrus^AUR

• PlantUML — Tool to create UML diagrams from a plain text language.

http://plantuml.com/ || plantuml^AUR

• PlantUML QEditor — PlantUML editor written in Qt.

https://github.com/borco/plantumlqeditor || plantumlqeditor-git^AUR

• Umbrello — Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram program based on KDE Technology.

https://umbrello.kde.org/ || umbrello

• UML Designer — Graphical tool based on Eclipse to edit and visualize UML models.

http://www.umldesigner.org/ || umldesigner^AUR

• UMLet — UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, build sequence and activity diagrams from plain text, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements.

http://umlet.com/ || umlet^AUR

• UML/INTERLIS-editor — Facilitate the application of the model driven approach to a greater number of users.

http://www.umleditor.org/ || umleditor^AUR

• Violet — Very easy to learn and use UML editor that draws nice-looking diagrams.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/violet/ || violetumleditor^AUR

API documentation browsers

• Devhelp — Developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Devhelp || devhelp

• Doc Browser — API documentation browser with support for DevDocs and Hoogle.

https://github.com/qwfy/doc-browser || doc-browser-git^AUR

• Qt Assistant — Tool for viewing on-line documentation in Qt help file format.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtassistant-index.html || qt5-tools

• quickDocs — Fast developer docs reader for reading Valadoc and DevDocs.

https://github.com/mdh34/quickDocs || quickdocs^AUR

• Zeal — Offline API documentation browser for software developers.

https://zealdocs.org/ || zeal

Build automation

See also Wikipedia:List of build automation software.

• Apache Ant — Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.

http://ant.apache.org/ || apache-ant

• Apache Maven — Build automation tool used primarily for Java.

http://maven.apache.org/ || maven

• CMake — Family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

https://cmake.org/ || cmake

• Gradle — Powerful build system for the JVM.

https://gradle.org/ || gradle

• Phing — PHP program designed to automate tasks of all kinds.

https://www.phing.info/ || phing^AUR

Version control systems

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of revision control software.

• Bazaar — Distributed version control system that helps you track project history over time and to collaborate easily with others.

https://bazaar.canonical.com/ || bzr

• Darcs — Distributed revision control system that was designed to replace traditional, centralized source control systems such as CVS and Subversion.

http://darcs.net/ || darcs

• Git — Distributed revision control and source code management system with an emphasis on speed.

https://git-scm.com/ || git

• Mercurial — Distributed version control system written in Python and similar in many ways to Git.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ || mercurial

• Subversion — Full-featured centralized version control system originally designed to be a better CVS.

https://subversion.apache.org/ || subversion

Game development

See also Wikipedia:List of game engines.

• GDevelop — Game creator designed to be used by everyone - no programming skills required.

https://gdevelop-app.com/ || gdevelop^AUR

• Godot — Advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine. Create games with ease, using Godot's unique approach to game development.

https://godotengine.org/ || godot^AUR

• LibreSprite — Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool lets you create 2D animations for videogames.

https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite || libresprite^AUR

• Tiled — General purpose 2D level editor with powerful tile map editing features. It’s built to be easy to use and is suitable for many type of games.

https://subversion.apache.org/ || tiled

Text input

Character selectors

• GNOME Characters — Character map application for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-characters || gnome-characters

• gucharmap — GTK+ 3 character selector for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap || gucharmap

• KCharSelect — Tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them into the clipboard. Part of kdeutils.

https://utils.kde.org/projects/kcharselect/ || kcharselect

Virtual keyboards

• CellWriter — Grid-entry handwriting recognition input panel.

https://github.com/risujin/cellwriter || cellwriter

• eekboard — Easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit.

https://github.com/ueno/eekboard || eekboard^AUR

• Florence — Extensible scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when not needed.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/florence/ || florence^AUR

• Onboard — Onscreen keyboard useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users.

https://launchpad.net/onboard || onboard

• qtvkbd — Virtual keyboard written in Qt, a fork of kvkbd.

https://github.com/Alexander-r/qtvkbd || qtvkbd^AUR

• QVKbd — Virtual keyboard written in Qt.

https://github.com/KivApple/qvkbd || qvkbd

• theShell On Screen Keyboard — Touchscreen keyboard for theShell.

https://github.com/vicr123/ts-kbd || ts-kbd^AUR

• xvkbd — Virtual keyboard for X window system.

http://t-sato.in.coocan.jp/xvkbd/ || xvkbd^AUR

Keyboard layout switchers

• fbxkb — A NETWM compliant keyboard indicator and switcher. It shows a flag of current keyboard in a systray area and allows you to switch to another one.

http://fbxkb.sourceforge.net/ || fbxkb^AUR

• xxkb — A lightweight keyboard layout indicator and switcher.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xxkb/ || xxkb

• qxkb — A keyboard switcher written in Qt.

https://github.com/disels/qxkb || qxkb^AUR

• X Neural Switcher — A text analyser, it detects the language of the input and corrects the keyboard layout if needed.

http://www.xneur.ru/ || xneur^AUR, gxneur^AUR (GUI)

Input methods

See the main article: Internationalization#Input methods.

Disks

Partitioning tools

See Partitioning#Partitioning tools.

Formatting tools

See File systems#Types of file systems.

Cloning tools

See Disk cloning#Disk cloning software.

Mount tools

See also udisks#Mount helpers.

• 9mount — Mount 9p filesystems.

http://sqweek.net/code/9mount/ || 9mount^AUR

• cryptmount — Mount an encrypted file system as a regular user.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cryptmount/ || cryptmount^AUR

• KDiskFree — Displays information about hard disks and other storage devices. It also allows to mount and unmount drives and view them in a file manager.

https://www.kde.org/applications/system/kdiskfree/ || kdf

• ldm — A lightweight daemon that mounts drives automagically using udev

https://github.com/LemonBoy/ldm || ldm^AUR

• pmount — Mount source as a regular user to an automatically created destination /media/source_name.

https://pmount.alioth.debian.org/ || pmount^AUR

• pmount-safe-removal — Mount removable devices as regular user with safe removal

https://mywaytoarch.tumblr.com/post/13111098534/pmount-safe-removal-of-usb-device || pmount-safe-removal^AUR

• udevil — Mounts removable devices as a regular user, show device info, and monitor device changes. Only depends on udev and glib.

https://ignorantguru.github.io/udevil || udevil

• ws — Mount Windows network shares (CIFS and VFS).

https://sourceforge.net/projects/winshares/ || ws^AUR

• zulucrypt — A GUI frontend for cryptsetup to create, manage and mount encrypted volumes; supports encfs as well

https://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/ || zulucrypt^AUR

Disk usage display

• duc — A library and suite of tools for inspecting disk usage.

http://duc.zevv.nl/ || duc^AUR

• Filelight — Disk usage analyzer that creates an interactive map of concentric, segmented rings that help visualise disk usage on your computer.

http://methylblue.com/filelight/ || filelight

• GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer — Disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop to check folder sizes and available disk space.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer || baobab

• Graphical Disk Map — Disk usage analyzer that draws a map of rectangles sized according to file or dir sizes.

http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/ || gdmap

• gt5 — Diff-capable "du-browser".

http://gt5.sourceforge.net || gt5^AUR

• MATE Disk Usage Analyzer — Disk usage analyzing tool for MATE Desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils || mate-utils

• ncdu — Simple ncurses disk usage analyzer.

http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu || ncdu

• qdirstat — Qt-based directory statistics (KDirStat/K4DirStat without any KDE - from the original KDirStat author).

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat || qdirstat^AUR

Disk health status

See S.M.A.R.T.#GUI Applications.

File recovery tools

See File recovery#List of utilities.

Disk cleaning

• BleachBit — Frees disk space and guards your privacy; frees cache, deletes cookies, clears Internet history, shreds temporary files, deletes logs, and discards junk you didn't know was there.

https://www.bleachbit.org/ || bleachbit

• fdupes — Program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes || fdupes

• fslint — A utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem.

https://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ || fslint^AUR

• gconf-cleaner — cleans up the unknown/invalid GConf keys that still sitting down on your GConf database.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/gconf-cleaner/ || gconf-cleaner^AUR

• rmlint — Tool to quickly find (and optionally remove) duplicate files and other lint.

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint || CLI: rmlint, GUI: rmlint-shredder

• Sweeper — System cleaning utility for KDE.

http://utils.kde.org/projects/sweeper/ || sweeper

Disk image writing

See also Wikipedia:List of tools to create Live USB systems.

• Deepin Boot Maker — Tool to make boot disk for Deepin OS.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-boot-maker/ || deepin-boot-maker

• Etcher — Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily. Based on the Electron platform.

https://etcher.io/ || etcher^AUR

• Fedora Media Writer — Tool that helps users put Fedora images on their portable drives such as flash disks.

https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter || mediawriter^AUR

• GNOME MultiWriter — Write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/MultiWriter || gnome-multi-writer

• ISOImageWriter — Tool to write a .iso file to a USB disk.

https://community.kde.org/ISOImageWriter || isoimagewriter^AUR

• LiveUSB Install — Install various Linux distributions and operating systems on removable flash drive or external disk drive.

http://live.learnfree.eu/ || live-usb-install^AUR

• MultiBootUSB — Install multiple live Linux on a USB disk non destructively and option to uninstall distros.

http://multibootusb.org/ || multibootusb^AUR

• MultiSystem — GUI tool to create a USB system that can boot multiple distro's.

http://liveusb.info/ || multisystem^AUR

• SUSE Studio ImageWriter — Utility for writing raw disk images & hybrid isos to USB keys.

https://github.com/openSUSE/imagewriter || imagewriter^AUR

• UNetbootin — Installs Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive.

https://unetbootin.github.io/ || unetbootin^AUR

• WoeUSB — Simple tool to create USB stick windows installer from an ISO image or a real DVD. (Fork of WinUSB).

https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB || woeusb^AUR

System

System monitoring

See also Category:Status monitoring and notification

• Conky — Lightweight, scriptable system monitor.

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky || conky

• Collectd — Simple, extensible system monitoring daemon based on rrdtool. It has a small footprint and can be set up either stand-alone or as a server/client application.

https://collectd.org/ || collectd

• collectl — Collectl is a light-weight performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk. It reports statistics on cpu, disk, infiniband, lustre, memory, network, nfs, process, quadrics, slabs and more in easy to read format.

http://collectl.sourceforge.net/ || collectl^AUR

• Deepin System Monitor — Monitor system process status for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-system-monitor/ || deepin-system-monitor

• dstat — Versatile resource statistics tool.

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ || dstat

• Fsniper — Daemon to run scripts based on changes in files monitored by inotify.

http://projects.l3ib.org/fsniper/ || fsniper^AUR

• GKrellM — Simple, flexible system monitor package for GTK+ with many plug-ins.

http://billw2.github.io/gkrellm/gkrellm.html || gkrellm

• glances — CLI curses-based monitoring tool in Python.

http://nicolargo.github.io/glances || glances

• GNOME System Monitor — System monitor for GNOME to view and manage system resources.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SystemMonitor || gnome-system-monitor

• GNOME Usage — View information about use of system resources, like memory and disk space.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Usage || gnome-usage

• htop — Simple, ncurses interactive process viewer.

http://htop.sourceforge.net/ || htop

• KSysGuard — System monito for KDE to monitor running processes and system performance.

https://userbase.kde.org/KSysGuard || ksysguard

• Linux Process Explorer — Graphical process explorer for Linux.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/procexp/ || procexp^AUR

• LXTask — Lightweight task manager for LXDE.

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask || lxtask

• MATE System Monitor — System monitor for MATE.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-system-monitor || mate-system-monitor

• netdata — Web-based real-time performance monitor

https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki || netdata

• Task Manager — GTK2 process management application for Xfce.

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-taskmanager || xfce4-taskmanager

• Telegraf — Agent written in Go for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics.

https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/latest/ || telegraf^AUR

• Paramano — Light battery monitor and a CPU frequency scaler. Forked from trayfreq

https://github.com/phillid/paramano || paramano^AUR

• Sysstat — Collection of resource monitoring tools: iostat, isag, mpstat, pidstat, sadf, sar.

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/ || sysstat

• xosview — System monitor that resembles gr_osview from SGI IRIX

http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/xosview/ || xosview^AUR

Hardware sensor monitoring

See lm_sensors#Graphical front-ends.

System information viewers

Console

• alsi — A system information tool for Arch Linux. It can be configured for every other system without even touching the source code of the script.

http://trizenx.blogspot.ro/2012/08/alsi.html || alsi^AUR

• archey2 — Simple python script that displays the arch logo and some basic information. Python 2.x version.

https://github.com/djmelik/archey || archey2^AUR

• archey3 — Python script to display system infomation alongside the Arch Linux logo.

https://lclarkmichalek.github.io/archey3 || archey3

• dmidecode — It reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.

http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/ || dmidecode

• hwdetect — Simple script to list modules that are exported in /sys/.

https://projects.archlinux.org/ || hwdetect

• hwinfo — Powerful hardware detection tool come from openSUSE.

https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo || hwinfo

• inxi — A script to get system information.

https://github.com/smxi/inxi || inxi^AUR

• neofetch — A fast, highly customizable system info script that supports displaying images with w3m.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch || neofetch-git^AUR

• screenfetch — Similar to archey but has an option to take a screenshot. Written in bash.

https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch || screenfetch

Graphical

• hardinfo — A small application that displays information about your hardware and operating system, it looks like the Device Manager in Windows.

http://hardinfo.berlios.de/HomePage || hardinfo

• i-Nex — An application that gathers information for hardware components available on your system and displays it using an user interface similar to the popular Windows tool CPU-Z.

http://i-nex.linux.pl/ || i-nex-git^AUR

• lshw — A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine with CLI and GTK interfaces.

http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter || lshw

• KDE Info Center — Centralized and convenient overview of system information for KDE.

https://www.kde.org/applications/system/kinfocenter/ || kinfocenter

• USBView — Display the topology of devices on the USB bus.

http://www.kroah.com/linux/usb/ || usbview

System log viewers

• GNOME Logs — Viewer for the systemd journal. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Logs || gnome-logs

• GNOME System Log — System log viewer for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-system-log || gnome-system-log

• KSystemLog — System log viewer tool for KDE.

https://www.kde.org/applications/system/ksystemlog/ || ksystemlog

• MATE System Log — System log viewer for MATE.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils || mate-utils

• Pacman Log Viewer — Tool used to inspect pacman log file, in particular it lists installed, removed and upgraded packages letting you to filter

by package's name and/or date.

https://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=150484 || pacmanlogviewer

Font viewers

See also Wikipedia:Font management software.

• Font Manager — Simple font management for GTK+ desktop environments.

https://fontmanager.github.io/ || font-manager^AUR

• Fonty Python — Manage, view and find your fonts.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython || fontypython^AUR

• GNOME Fonts — Font viewer for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-font-viewer || gnome-font-viewer

• KFontview — KDE application to view and install different types of fonts.

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/kfontview/index.html || plasma-desktop

• MATE Font Viewer — Font viewer for MATE.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-control-center || mate-utils

• Waterfall — GTK+ application to view all characters of font in all sizes.

https://keithp.com/cgit/gwaterfall.git || gwaterfall

Help viewers

See man page#Viewer applications.

Command schedulers

See also Cron.

• FcronQ — Fcron GUI, an advanced periodic command scheduler.

http://fcronq.xavion.name/ || fcronq^AUR

• GNOME Schedule — Graphical interface to crontab and at for GNOME.

http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net/ || gnome-schedule

• KCron — Tool for KDE to run applications in the background at regular intervals. It's a graphical interface to the Cron command.

https://userbase.kde.org/KCron || kcron

• KTimer — Little tool for KDE to execute programs after some time. It allows you to enter several tasks and to set a timer for each of them. The timers for each task can be started, stopped, changed, or looped.

https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/ktimer/ || ktimer

Shutdown timers

• GShutdown — Advanced shutdown utility which allows you to schedule the shutdown or the restart of your computer, or logout your actual session.

https://gshutdown.tuxfamily.org/ || gshutdown^AUR

• Hsiu-Ming's Timer — Graphical shutdown timer, which enables you to shutdown, turn off monitor, reboot or play sound after a period of time.

https://cges30901.github.io/hmtimer-website/ || hmtimer^AUR

• KShutdown — Graphical shutdown utility, which allows you to turn off or suspend a computer at a specified time. It features various time and delay options, command-line support, and notifications.

https://kshutdown.sourceforge.io/ || kshutdown

Clock synchronization

See Time#Time synchronization.

Screen management

See Xrandr#Graphical front-ends.

Backlight management

See Backlight#Backlight utilities.

Color management

See ICC profiles#Utilities and Backlight#Color correction.

Printer management

See CUPS#GUI applications.

Bluetooth management

See Bluetooth#Front-ends.

Power management

See Power management#Userspace tools.

Package management

See pacman tips#Utilities.