List of applications

Backup programs

• DAR - A full-featured command-line backup tool, short for Disk ARchive
  • Architecture(s): i686, x86_64
  • Repository: Community
  • Description: A full-featured command-line backup tool, short for Disk ARchive
  • Upstream URL: http://dar.linux.free.fr/
  • License: GPL
  • Package name: Template:Package Official

• Duplicity - A utility for encrypted, bandwidth-efficient backups using the rsync algorithm
  • Architecture(s): i686, x86_64
  • Repository: Community
  • Description: A utility for encrypted, bandwidth-efficient backups using the rsync algorithm
  • Upstream URL: http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/
  • License: GPL
  • Package name: Template:Package Official

• Packrat - A simple, modular backup system that uses dar to take full/incremental backups of files and can store them locally, on a remote system via SSH, or on Amazon S3
  • Architecture(s): i686, x86_64
  • Repository: AUR
  • Description: A simple backup system with included modules for SSH, Amazon S3, and MySQL
  • Upstream URL: http://www.zeroflux.org/projects
  • License: MIT
  • Package name: Template:Package AUR

• rdiff-backup - A utility for local/remote mirroring and incremental backups
  • Architecture(s): i686, x86_64
  • Repository: Community
  • Description: A utility for local/remote mirroring and incremental backups
  • Upstream URL: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
  • License: GPL
  • Package name: Template:Package Official

• rsnapshot - A remote filesystem snapshot utility
  • Architecture(s): i686, x86_64
  • Repository: Community
  • Description: A remote filesystem snapshot utility
  • Upstream URL: http://www.rsnapshot.org/
  • License: GPL
  • Package name: Template:Package Official

• rsync - A file transfer program to keep remote files in sync
  • Architecture(s): i686, x86_64
  • Repository: Extra
  • Description: A file transfer program to keep remote files in sync
  • Upstream URL: http://rsync.samba.org/
  • License: GPL3
  • Package name: Template:Package Official

• Safekeep - A client/server backup system which enhances the power of rdiff-backup
  • Architecture(s): i686, x86_64
  • Repository: AUR
  • Description: A client/server backup system which enhances the power of rdiff-backup
  • Upstream URL: http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/
  • License: GPL
  • Package name: Template:Package AUR

Internet

BitTorrent Clients

• aria2 — Fast command-line download utility with support for multiple protocols, including BitTorrent

http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ || Template:Package Official

• Deluge — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in Python and wrapped with PyGTK

http://deluge-torrent.org/ || Template:Package Official

• KTorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client developed using Qt

http://ktorrent.org/ || Template:Package Official

• MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client supporting BitTorrent

http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || Template:Package Official

• qBittorrent — The closest open source (GNU GPL v2 license) equivalent to µtorrent

http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/ || Template:Package Official

• rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ || Template:Package Official

• Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with (GTK+) GUI and CLI front-ends

http://www.transmissionbt.com/ || Template:Package Official

• Vuze — Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus)

http://www.vuze.com/ || Template:Package Official

Chat Clients

IRC Clients

• Irssi — Highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client

http://www.irssi.org/ || Template:Package Official

• Konversation — Qt-based IRC client for the KDE4 desktop

http://konversation.kde.org/ || Template:Package Official

• KVIrc — Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support

http://www.kvirc.net/ || Template:Package Official

• WeeChat — Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client

http://www.weechat.org/ || Template:Package Official

• XChat — GTK-based IRC client

http://xchat.org/ || Template:Package Official

Jabber/XMPP Clients

• Freetalk — A console based Jabber client

http://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/ || Template:Package Official

• Gajim — Jabber client written in PyGTK

http://www.gajim.org/ || Template:Package Official

• jabber.el — A minimal jabber client for emacs

http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/ || Template:Package AUR

• MCabber — A small Jabber console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, and UTF8

http://mcabber.com/ || Template:Package Official

• Psi — A Qt based Jabber client

http://psi-im.org/ || Template:Package Official

• Psi+ is an enhanced version of Psi Jabber client. Not in AUR

MSN Clients

• aMSN — MSN client written in Tcl/Tk

http://www.amsn-project.net/ || Template:Package Official

• Emesene — A pygtk MSN Messenger client

http://www.emesene.org/ || Template:Package Official

• Galaxium Messenger — A multi-protocol instant messenger application designed for the GNOME desktop

http://code.google.com/p/galaxium/ || Template:Package AUR

• KMess — KMess is a MSN Messenger client for Linux

http://kmess.org/ || Template:Package Official

• Mercury — Java Based MSN client

http://www.mercury.im/ || Template:Package Official

Multi-Protocol Clients

• BarnOwl — A console chat client for the AIM, IRC, Jabber, and Zephyr protocols

http://barnowl.mit.edu/ || Template:Package AUR

• Carrier — Pidgin fork providing minor GUI enhancements (formerly funpidgin)

http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net/ || Template:Package AUR

• CenterIM — Fork of CenterICQ - A text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface

http://www.centerim.org/index.php/Main_Page || Template:Package Official

• Empathy — A GNOME instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework

http://live.gnome.org/Empathy || Template:Package Official

• Finch — A ncurses-based messaging client

http://pidgin.im/ || Template:Package Official

• Kopete — Instant Messenger

http://www.kde.org/ || Template:Package Official

• Pidgin — Multi-protocol instant messaging client

http://pidgin.im/ || Template:Package Official

• qutIM — Multiplatform instant messenger

http://qutim.org/ || Template:Package AUR

Mail Clients

• Alpine The Apache-licensed PINE (a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages) http://www.washington.edu/alpine
• Claws-mail - A GTK+ based e-mail client http://www.claws-mail.org
• Evolution - A mature and feature-rich e-mail client used in GNOME by default.
• Gnus - mail, nntp, rss client for Emacs.
• Kmail - A mature and feature-rich e-mail client part of the kde project. http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/
• mutt - The famous, mature old command-line client http://www.mutt.org/
• Sup - A CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and gmail like operation. http://sup.rubyforge.org/
• Sylpheed - Lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
• Thunderbird - Mozilla's GTK2-based client.

News Aggregators

• Akregator - KDE's news aggregator (in kdepim package)
• Canto - A ncurses RSS aggregator http://codezen.org/canto/
• Gnus - mail, nntp, rss client for Emacs.
• Liferea - A GTK desktop news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs http://liferea.sourceforge.net
• Newsbeuter - A ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to mutt. Does not use the traditional 3 panes setup.
• Rawdog - An "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
• Rssowl - A powerful java-based RSS reader http://boreal.rssowl.org
• BlogBridge - Another excellent java-based aggregator http://www.blogbridge.com
• Snownews - Text mode RSS newsreader.
• Thunderbird - A mail client from Mozilla which also functions as a pretty nice news aggregator

Web Browsers

Graphical

• Arora - Cross-platform open source web browser using the WebKit rendering engine, built on top of Qt. http://www.arora-browser.org/
• Chromium - The open-source project behind Google Chrome, a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. http://code.google.com/chromium/
• Dillo - A small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK http://www.dillo.org/
• Epiphany - The default GNOME browser, which uses the webkit rendering engine. http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/
• Firefox - Extensible GTK2 browser based on Gecko with fast rendering. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
• Kazehakase - A much lighter, but rather feature-lacking alternative to other browsers (GTK2 and Gecko). http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/
• Konqueror - Qt- and KHTML-based browser. A part of the KDE desktop. http://www.konqueror.org/
• Midori - Young but promising GTK2/WebKit browser, featherweight with very fast rendering http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html
• Opera - Highly customizable browser with focuses on an adherence to web rendering standards http://www.opera.com/
• uzbl - A lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy - to do one thing and do it well. http://www.uzbl.org/
• Hv3 - A minimalist web browser based on tkhtml3 http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html
• Vimprobable - A webkit-based web browser which behaves like Vimperator, but without Firefox. http://www.vimprobable.org/
• jumanji - jumanji provides a minimalistic and space saving interface with vimperator-like keyboard-focused interaction http://pwmt.org/jumanji

Text Based

• Elinks - An advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser. http://elinks.or.cz
• links-g A text WWW browser, similar to Lynx, with framebuffer and X graphics enabled http://links.twibright.com/
• Lynx A text browser for the World Wide Web http://lynx.isc.org
• w3m A pager/text-based WWW browser http://w3m.sourceforge.net/

Document Indexers

• pinot - Personal search and metasearch tool http://pinot.berlios.de/
• recoll - Full text search tool based on Xapian backend http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

Document Readers

• ePDFView - A free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries. http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/
• Evince - Document viewer for multiple document formats. Supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi http://projects.gnome.org/evince/
• Foxit Reader - A small, fast PDF viewer http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/
• MuPDF - lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C http://ccxvii.net/mupdf/
• Okular - PDF viewer for KDE. http://okular.kde.org/
• xpdf - A viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
• apvlv - apvlv is a PDF Viewer Under Linux and its behaviour like Vim. http://code.google.com/p/apvlv/

Multimedia

Audio

• Amarok - A mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features
• Ario - A GTK2 client for MPD (Music player daemon) inspired by Rhythmbox but much lighter and faster
• aTunes - An audio-player written in Java
• Audacious - A Winamp clone like Beep and old XMMS versions
• Banshee - yet another GTK2 iTunes clone, yet more feature-rich and more actively developed.
• Clementine - Amarok 1.4 ported to QT4
• Cmus is a very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.
• Cplay is a curses front-end for various audio players.
• DeaDBeeF - Lightweight and powerful music player made with C and GTK2. [1]
• Exaile - A GTK2 clone of Amarok
• Goggles Music Manager - A lightweight music manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files.
• Moc - A ncurses-based daemon/client style player, designed to be flexible and easy to use.
• Music Player Daemon - Music player daemon, a lightweight and scalable choice for music management
• mpg123 - command line audio player.
• ncmpc - An ncurses-based front-end to mpd
• ncmpcpp - A clone of ncmpc with some new features written in C++
• PyTone - An advanced music jukebox with a console interface
• Quod Libet - an audio player written with pygtk and gstreamer
• Rhythmbox - A GTK2 clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME
• Sonata - A pygtk-based client for mpd
• Nightingale - (Songbird for linux) an open source clone of iTunes that uses Mozilla technologies as well as Gstreamer and is being developed by the team that made WinAMP
• XMMS - A skinnable GTK+1 standalone media player similar to winamp

Visualization

• projectM

Editing

• Audacity

Graphics and Image Manipulation

• Blender
• Dia
• Gimp
• imagemagick
• Inkscape
• Krita
• mtpaint
• Nathive
• Shotwell
• Xara
• mypaint

Image Viewers

• Background Setter
• eog
• feh
• GPicView
• Geeqie
• GQview
• gThumb
• Mirage
• Quick Image Viewer
• Ristretto
• XnView
• xv
• Picasa

Phone

• moto4lin

Video Players

• mplayer
• Parole A modern media player based on the GStreamer framework http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/parole/
• SMPlayer is a complete frontend for MPlayer.
• VLC - A simple multi-platform media player, streamer, and encoder, that handles huge numbers of media formats.
• Whaaw! Media Player is a lightweight Gstreamer-based audio/video player that can serve as a good alternative to Totem for those who don't like all those GNOME dependencies. http://home.gna.org/whaawmp/
• Dragon player is a simple video player for KDE 4 developed by Ian Monroe. http://www.dragonplayer.net/

Video Editors

• http://www.pitivi.org/ Template:Package AUR
• http://lives.sourceforge.net/ Template:Package AUR
• http://www.openmovieeditor.org/ Template:Package Official
• http://www.openshotvideo.com/
• http://www.avidemux.org/ Template:Package Official
• http://kdenlive.org/ Template:Package Official
• http://www.kinodv.org/
• http://cinelerra.org/ Template:Package Official

Note Taking Organizers

• glista with notes support Home page
• hnb - A program to organize many kinds of data in one place Home page Package
• NoteCase - A portable hierarchical note manager, coded in C++ using the GTK+ toolkit Home page
• Task - A command-line TODO list manager Home page
• tomboy - Desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix Home page
• zim - A WYSIWYG text editor that aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to the desktop Home page
• Gnote - Gnote is an experimental port of Tomboy to C++ Home page

Office

Suites

• Koffice - KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. http://www.koffice.org/
• OpenOffice.org - An office suite http://www.OpenOffice.org/

Word Processors

• Abiword - A lightweight fast word processor http://www.abisource.com/
• OpenOffice.org Writer - A full-featured word processor included in the OpenOffice.org suite
• Ted - An easy GTK-based rich text processor (with footnote support) http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/

Spreadsheets

• gnumeric - A GNOME Spreadsheet Program http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric
• OpenOffice.org Calc - A full-featured spreadsheet included in OpenOffice.org suite

Security

• arpwatch - arpwatch and arpsnmp network monitoring tools ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/
• DenyHosts - a script to help thwart ssh server attacks http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
• fail2ban - bans IP that makes too many password failures http://www.fail2ban.org/
• etherape - A graphical network monitor for various OSI layers and protocols http://etherape.sourceforge.net/
• iptraf - An IP network monitor http://iptraf.seul.org/
• logwatch - Logwatch is a customizable log analysis system http://www.logwatch.org/
• nessus - Vulnerability scanner http://www.nessus.org
• nmap - A command line network exploration tool and security/port scanner http://nmap.org
• ntop - A network traffic probe based on libcap http://ntop.org
• portbunny - Extremly fast CLI portscanner http://www.recurity-labs.com/portbunny/index.shtml
• snort - A lightweight network intrusion detection system http://www.snort.org
• swatch - The active log file monitoring tool http://swatch.sourceforge.net/
• tcpdump - A tool for network monitoring and data acquisition http://www.tcpdump.org
• wireshark - A free network protocol analyzer for Unix/Linux and Windows http://www.wireshark.org/

Time Management

• Calcurse - An ncurses calendar and task manager Home page
• Orage - A GTK+ calendar and task manager often seen integrated with Xfce Home page
• Osmo - A GTK+ personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules. Home page
• Rachota - A portable time tracker for personal projects Home page
• Remind - A sophisticated calendar and alarm program Home page
• Sunbird - The standalone Mozilla calendar application Home page
• taskcoach - A simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists Home page Package
• When - A simple command line personal calendar program Home page
• Wyrd - A text-based front-end to Remind. Home page

Translation and Localisation

• Lokalize - the standard KDE tool for software translation. Available in Extra. Home page
• virtaal - an editor for translation of both software and other text, based on Translate Toolkit. Available in AUR. Home page
  • Supported formats: Gettext (.po and .mo), XLIFF (.xlf), TMX, TBX, WordFast TM (.txt), Qt Linguist (.ts), Qt Phrase Book (.qph), OmegaT glossary (.tab and .utf8), ...
  • Shows suggestions from Apertium, Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Moses, http://open-tran.eu, Translation Memories or TM servers
• poedit - a simple Gettext/po-file translation tool. Available in Community. Home page
• OmegaT - "the translation memory tool", a general translators tool which contains a lot of translation memory features
  • Supported formats: html, MS Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument format, XLIFF/Okapi, MediaWiki, plain text, TMX, ...
  • Shows suggestions from Google Translate

• pology - a set of Python tools for dealing with Gettext/po-files. See the home page for simple installation instructions.
  • May be used to translate po-files with Apertium, see http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Translating_gettext for instructions.

• Apertium - a free and open source rule-based machine translation platform. All released language data is available in AUR. Home page
  • Supported formats: html, MS Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument format, TMX, some MediaWiki support, ... (use Pology or Virtaal for po-files)
  • See the wiki for supported languages
• Moses - a statistical machine translation tool (language data not included). Home page

Utilities

Arch Package Management

• Aurnotify — A tool set to notify the status of your favorite packages from AUR.

To use the aurnotify desklet visit: http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/desklets.html || Template:Package AUR

• Makeaur — A simple AUR wrapper.

http://ghost1227.com/makeaur || Template:Package AUR

• Pacman-color — Command-line frontend for libalpm aka pacman with color patch.

http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/ || Template:Package AUR

• Pacman-contrib — Utilities for use with the pacman package manager.

http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/ || Template:Package Official

• Pkgtools — A collection of scripts for Arch Linux packages.

Which includes pkgfile; find what package owns a file. [Forum topic] || Template:Package Official

• Powerpill — A wrapper for pacman that speeds up package retrieval by using aria2c for concurrent/segmented downloads.

http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/powerpill || Template:Package Official

• Slurpy — An AUR search/download/update helper in Python.

http://rsontech.net/projects/slurpy/ || Template:Package AUR

• TuPac — A cached pacman implementation that boosts some pacman operations: faster searches, AND searches, aur support, colored output, system sanity check, frontend friendly and more...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tupac || Template:Package AUR

• Yaourt — A Pacman frontend with more features and AUR support.

http://www.archlinux.fr/yaourt-en/ || Template:Package AUR

See also: Comparison of AUR frontends and AUR Helpers.

Disk Usage Display Programs

• ncdu — A simple ncurses disk usage analyzer.

http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu || Template:Package Official

• gt5 — A diff-capable 'du-browser'.

http://gt5.sourceforge.net || Template:Package AUR

• Baobab — Baobab is a C/gtk+ application to analyse disk usage in any Gnome environment.

http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab || Template:Package AUR

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

http://www.methylblue.com/filelight || Template:Package Official

CD/DVD Burning Tools

• bashburn - A lightweight terminal based menu frontend for CD/DVD burning tools.
• brasero - An application to burn CDs/DVDs for the Gnome Desktop.
• gnomebaker - A GTK based CD/DVD burning application.
• graveman - A GTK based CD/DVD burning application.
• k3b - A feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application for KDE.
• nerolinux - A commercial CD/DVD burning tool (requires a valid key).
• xcdroast - A lightweight CD/DVD burning tool.
• xfburn - Xfburn is a simple CD/DVD burning tool based on libburnia libraries (xfce).

Clipboard Managers

• Parcellite - a lightweight yet feature-rich clipboard manager Home page
• Glipper - Glipper is a clipboardmanager for GNOME with more features and plugin support Home page

Compression Tools

• File Roller The default archive manager for GNOME.
• p7zip - A command line port of 7-Zip for POSIX systems, including Linux. http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ http://www.7-zip.org/
• pbzip2 - A threaded version of the bzip2 utility, can automatically scale up to as many cores as it finds in the system.
• Squeeze - A featherweight front-end for command line archiving tools. Passworded archives are currently unsupported. http://squeeze.xfce.org/
• XArchive - A GTK+ front-end for command line archiving tools.
• Xarchiver - A lightweight, desktop independent front-end for command line archiving tools built with GTK2. http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/

File Managers

• Dolphin - Default file manager for KDE 4 - http://dolphin.kde.org/
• emelFM2 - File manager that implements a three-pane design - http://emelfm2.net
• Konqueror - Default file manager for KDE 2 and KDE 3 - http://www.konqueror.org/
• Krusader - Advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE - http://www.krusader.org/
• Midnight Commander - Terminal filemanager/shell that emulates Norton Commander - http://www.midnight-commander.org/
• Nautilus - Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts - http://projects.gnome.org/nautilus/
• PCMan File Manager - Part of the standard LXDE DE, a small and efficient graphical file manager - http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/
• ROX-Filer - Small and fast file manager which can optionally manage desktop backgrounds and panels - http://roscidus.com/desktop/ROX-Filer
• Thunar - Extensible, medium weight file manager used by default in Xfce with support for plugins - http://thunar.xfce.org/
• tuxcmd - Windowed file manager with 2 panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers - http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/description.php
• Vifm - Ncurses based file manager with vi-like keybindings - http://vifm.sourceforge.net/
• Xfe - Small and very fast Commander like file manager - http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/

Panels

• fbpanel Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel. Home page Package
• LXPanel Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE DE. Home page Package
• PyPanel Lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C. Home page Package
• Tint Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox. Home page Package
• BMPanel Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel. Home page Package
• Xfce4panel Default Xfce panel Home page

System Monitoring

• adesklet-systemmonitor - Modular stackable system monitors for adesklets http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/desklets.html
• conky - advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo http://conky.sourceforge.net/
• gkrellm - Simple, flexible system monitor package for GTK2; many plug-ins are available on AUR. http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html

Terminals

• Aterm - An xterm replacement with transparency support http://aterm.sourceforge.net/
• Gnome-Terminal - GNOME default (standalone) terminal with support for Unicode and pseudo-transparency
• Konsole - KDE's default terminal
• lxterminal - VTE-based terminal emulator and c part of the LXDE DE. http://lxde.org/
• Lilyterm — Lightweight and plain terminal emulator
• mrxvt - Tabbed X terminal emulator based on rxvt code http://materm.sourceforge.net/index.html
• roxterm - Tabbed, VTE-based terminal emulator http://roxterm.sourceforge.net/
• rxvt-unicode (or urxvt) - A small, fast and customizable terminal which uses ~/.Xdefaults http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
• sakura - terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. http://www.pleyades.net/david/sakura.php
• terminator - A terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panes
• xterm - The default of defaults, requires only X
• Terminal - Xfce default terminal with support for a colorized prompt and a tabbed interface http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal/

Text Editors

• Beaver - Early AdVanced EditoR.
• Bluefish - GTK editor/IDE with an MDI interface, syntax highlighting and support for Python plugins http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
• Cssed - GTK2 based Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) editor http://cssed.sourceforge.net/
• Emacs - The somewhat intimidating but famously extensible text editor with hundreds of tricks and add-ons
• Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.
• Gedit - Part of the GNOME desktop, but has minimal dependencies: a GTK2 editor with syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, matching brackets, etc., and a number of add-ons to increase functionality
• Kate The KDE Advanced Text Editor. A full-featured programmer's editor, with MDI and a filesystem browser.
• KWrite (part of the KDE desktop) A lightweight text editor with syntax highlighting.
• Tea a QT based feature rich text editor in AUR
• LeafPad - GTK+ based simple text editor http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/
• medit is intended to be a useful programming and around-programming text editor.
• Mousepad - Lightweight text editor with support for word wrapping, line numbering and printing http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/
• Nano - A console based editor, similar to vim with a more intuitive interface, a good choice for newbies and casual users.
• Scite - A generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
• Vim - "Vi improved," its many shortcuts and utilities may take a while to master but are a huge asset to programmers

OCR tools

There are several steps to the whole OCR process, the actual OCR engine is only part of this:

1. scanning
2. document layout analysis
3. optical character recognition
4. post-processing (formatting, PDF creation)

• cuneiform is a command line OCR system originally developed and open sourced by Cognitive technologies. Supported languages: eng, ger, fra, rus, swe, spa, ita, ruseng, ukr, srp, hrv, pol, dan, por, dut, cze, rum, hun, bul, slo, lav, lit, est, tur. Available from pacman/community. https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux
  • YAGF is a graphical interface for the cuneiform text recognition program on the Linux platform. Available from AUR. http://symmetrica.net/cuneiform-linux/yagf-en.html

• Tesseract is "probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available". Available from pacman/community. http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
• OCRopus is an OCR platform, modules exist for document layout analysis, OCR engines (it can use Tesseract or its own engine), natural language modelling, etc. Available from AUR. http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/
• gscan2pdf scans, runs Tesseract and creates a PDF all in one go

• GOCR/JOCR (http://jocr.sourceforge.net/) is an OCR engine which also supports barcode recognition. Available from pacman/extra as "gocr". http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/
• Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a feature extraction method. Available from pacman/extra. http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/
• Kooka is a scanner GUI for KDE which supports the OCR engines GOCR, Ocrad or KADMOS. Used to be part of kdegraphics4, but dropped out due to lack of development. http://kooka.kde.org/

Trays

• Docker is a docking application which acts as a system tray.
• Stalonetray is a stand-alone system tray.
• Trayer swallows GTK 1.2/2.x application docklets, and KDE docklets.

Desktop Environments (DE)

Desktop Environment#List of desktop environments

Window Managers (WM)

Window Manager#List of window managers

See also

• http://linuxappfinder.com/
• http://www.linuxlinks.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages

• http://linuxappfinder.com/alternatives - Windows and OS X Software Alternatives
• http://alternativeto.net/ - find alternatives to popular programs
• http://www.linuxalt.com/ - Linux equivalents of Windows software