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1 Others

1.1 Organization

1.1.1 Personal information managers

These applications support time, task and contacts management.

  • Evolution — Personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Part of

gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution || evolution
  • Kontact — Integrated solution to your personal information management.
http://www.kontact.org/ || kontact
  • Osmo — GTK+ personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.
http://clayo.org/osmo/ || osmo

1.1.2 Time management

1.1.2.1 Console
  • Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)
http://calcurse.org/ || calcurse
  • khal — Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)
https://github.com/pimutils/khal || khal
  • Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.
http://roaringpenguin.com/products/remind || remind
  • When — Simple personal calendar program.
http://lightandmatter.com/when/when.html || when
1.1.2.2 Graphical
  • chinese-calendar — Chinese traditional calendar for Ubuntu Kylin.
https://launchpad.net/chinese-calendar/ || chinese-calendar
  • Deepin Calendar — Calendar application for Deepin.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-calendar/ || deepin-calendar
  • GNOME Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar || gnome-calendar
  • KAlarm — Personal alarm message, command and email scheduler, part of

kdepim.

https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kalarm/ || kalarm
  • KOrganizer — Calendar and scheduling program, part of

kdepim.

https://www.kde.org/applications/office/korganizer/ || korganizer
  • Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app for Nextcloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar || nextcloud-app-calendar
  • Orage — GTK+ calendar and task manager often seen integrated with Xfce.
http://www.xfce.org/projects || orage
  • TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind || remind

1.1.3 Time trackers

  • GNOME Break Timer — Keeps track of how much you are using the computer, and it reminds you to take regular breaks.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/GnomeBreakTimer || gnome-break-timer
  • GNOME Clocks — Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Clocks || gnome-clocks
http://gnomepomodoro.org/ ||
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  • Hamster — Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.
http://projecthamster.org/ || hamster-time-tracker
  • Kronometer — Stopwatch application for KDE.
https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kronometer/ || kronometer
  • KTeaTime — Handy timer for steeping tea.
https://www.kde.org/applications/games/kteatime/ || kteatime
  • Orage Globaltime — Show clocks from different countries.
https://xfce.org/projects || orage
  • RSIBreak — Takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI).
https://userbase.kde.org/RSIBreak || rsibreak
  • Workrave — Program that assists in the recovery and prevention of RSI.
http://www.workrave.org/ || workrave

1.1.4 Task management

1.1.4.1 Console
  • Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.
http://taskwarrior.org/ || task
  • todoman — Command-line To-do list manager (supports CalDAV)
https://github.com/pimutils/todoman || todoman
1.1.4.2 Graphical
  • GNOME To Do — Personal task manager for GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Todo || gnome-todo
  • Nextcloud Tasks — Tasks app for Nextcloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks || nextcloud-app-tasks
  • Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C#.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tasque || tasque
  • Zanshin — To-do management application based on Akonadi.
https://zanshin.kde.org/ || zanshin

1.1.5 Contacts management

1.1.5.1 Console
  • Abook — Text-based contacts manager designed for use with mutt.
http://abook.sourceforge.net/ || abook
  • Khard — Command-line addressbook that is able to sync with CardDAV-servers.
https://github.com/scheibler/khard || khard
1.1.5.2 Graphical
  • GNOME Contacts — Contacts manager for GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Contacts || gnome-contacts
  • KAddressBook — Address book manager for KDE.
https://www.kde.org/applications/office/kaddressbook/ || kaddressbook
  • LDAP Administration Tool — Browse LDAP-based directories and add/edit/delete entries contained within.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ldap-at/ || lat
  • Nextcloud Contacts — Contacts app for Nextcloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts || nextcloud-app-contacts
  • phpLDAPadmin — LDAP client webapp. Its hierarchical tree-viewer and advanced search functionality make it intuitive to browse and administer your LDAP directory.
http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ || phpldapadmin

1.1.6 Financial management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of accounting software.

  • BillReminder — Small and quick accounting application designed to allow for easy tracking of bills.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/billreminder || billreminder
  • GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.
http://www.gnucash.org/ || gnucash
  • HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
http://homebank.free.fr/ || homebank
  • KMyMoney — Personal finance manager that operates in a similar way to Microsoft Money. It supports different account types, categorisation of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank accounts and import/export to the “QIF” file format.
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html || kmymoney
  • Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
http://ledger-cli.org/ || ledger
  • Money Manager EX — An easy-to-use personal finance suite
http://www.moneymanagerex.org/ || moneymanagerex
  • Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.
http://skrooge.org/ || skrooge

1.1.7 Cryptocurrency

  • Bitcoin Core — Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.
https://bitcoincore.org/ || bitcoin-qt
  • Electrum — Lightweight Bitcoin client.
https://electrum.org/ || electrum
https://www.etherwall.com/ || etherwall

1.1.8 Project management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of project management software.

  • Calligra Plan — Project management application, which is intended for managing moderately large projects with multiple resources.
https://www.calligra.org/plan/ || calligra-plan
  • Planner — Project management application for GNOME.
https://www.calligra.org/plan/ || planner

1.2 Education

See also List of Applications/Games#Education.


1.2.1 Flashcards

See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software.

  • Anki — Intelligent spaced-repetition memory training program.
https://apps.ankiweb.net/ || anki
  • KWordQuiz — Tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. Part of

kdeedu.

https://www.kde.org/applications/education/kwordquiz/ || kwordquiz
  • Parley — Program to help you memorize things. It uses the spaced repetition learning method, also known as flash cards. Part of

kdeedu.

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

1.2.2 Touch typing

1.2.2.1 Console
  • GNU Typist — Universal typing tutor.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ || gtypist
  • Typespeed — Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS.
http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/ || typespeed
1.2.2.2 Graphical
  • Klavaro — Teaching touch typing that intends to be keyboard and language independent.
http://klavaro.sourceforge.net/ || klavaro
  • KTouch — Program to learn and practice touch typing. Part of

kdeedu.

https://www.kde.org/applications/education/ktouch/ || ktouch
  • TIPP10 — Intelligent touch typing tutor.
https://www.tipp10.com/ || tipp10

1.2.3 Recipe management

  • GNOME Recipes — Recipe management application for GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes || gnome-recipes
  • Gourmet — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.
http://thinkle.github.io/gourmet/ || gourmet

1.3 Accessibility

See Accessibility for tips on operating the desktop and Category:Accessibility for all available articles. See also On-screen keyboards.

1.3.1 Speech synthesizers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of speech synthesizers and listening comparison of the different engines.

  • eSpeak — Compact speech synthesizer for more than 50 languages.
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ || espeak
  • eSpeak NG — Fork of eSpeak (due to inactivity of original maintainer).
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng || espeak-ng
  • Festival — General framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech.
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ || festival
  • Flite — Lightweight speech synthesis engine.
http://festvox.org/flite/ || flite
  • Gespeaker — GTK+ frontend for espeak. It allows you to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed.
https://muflone.com/jekyll/gespeaker/english/ || gespeaker
  • KMouth — Speech synthesizer frontend which enables persons that cannot speak to let their computer speak.
https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmouth/ || kmouth
  • Orca — Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, using eSpeak (via Speech Dispatcher).
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca || orca
  • Speech Dispatcher — Common interface to speech synthesis. It has backends for eSpeak, Festival, and a few other speech synthesizers.
https://freebsoft.org/speechd || speech-dispatcher

1.3.2 Speech recognition

See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.

  • Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.
https://github.com/julius-speech/julius || julius

1.3.3 Screen magnifiers

  • KMag — Small KDE utility to magnify a part of the screen.
https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmag/ || kmag

1.3.4 Mouse

  • Easystroke — Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.
https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki || easystroke
  • KMouseTool — Clicks the mouse whenever the mouse cursor pauses briefly. It was designed to help those with repetitive strain injuries, for whom pressing buttons hurts.
https://userbase.kde.org/KMouseTool || kmousetool
  • Mousetweaks — Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mousetweaks || mousetweaks

1.4 Display managers

See the main article: Display manager#List of display managers.

1.5 Desktop environments

See the main article: Desktop environment#List of desktop environments.

1.5.1 Window managers

1.5.1.1 Console

See also List of applications/Utilities#Terminal multiplexers, which offer some of the functions of window managers for the console.

  • twin — Text-mode window manager.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/ || twin
1.5.1.2 Graphical

See the main article: Window manager#List of window managers.

1.5.1.3 Composite managers

See the main article: Xorg#List of composite managers.

1.5.2 Window tilers

  • PyWO — Allows you to easily organize windows on the desktop using keyboard shortcuts.
https://code.google.com/archive/p/pywo/ || {{{4}}}

1.5.3 Taskbars

See also Wikipedia:Taskbar.

  • Cairo-Dock — Highly customizable dock and launcher application.
http://www.glx-dock.org/ || cairo-dock
  • Docky — Full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
http://www.go-docky.com/ || docky
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomePanel || gnome-panel
  • Latte — Dock based on Plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids.
https://github.com/psifidotos/Latte-Dock || latte-dock
  • LXPanel — Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.
http://lxde.org/lxpanel || lxpanel
  • MATE Panel — Panel included in the MATE desktop.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/ || mate-panel
  • Plank — Elegant, simple, clean dock from pantheon desktop environment.
https://launchpad.net/plank || plank
  • PyPanel — Lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C.
http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/ || pypanel
  • Tint2 — Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.
https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2 || tint2
  • Xfce Panel — Panel included in the Xfce desktop.
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start || xfce4-panel
  • xmobar — A lightweight, text-based, status bar written in Haskell.
http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/ || xmobar

1.5.4 System tray

  • AllTray — Dock other applications into the system tray (notification area).
https://github.com/mbt/alltray || alltray
  • Stalonetray — Stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for Xorg. It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.
http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/ || stalonetray
  • Trayer — Lightweight GTK+-based system tray (notification area).
https://gna.org/projects/fvwm-crystal/ || trayer

1.5.5 Application launchers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.

  • Albert — Sophisticated, plugin based standalone keyboard launcher.
https://github.com/manuelschneid3r/albert || albert
  • Application Finder — Easy-to-use application launcher from Xfce.
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/start || xfce4-appfinder
  • dmenu — Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.
https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ || dmenu
  • Gmrun — Lightweight GTK+-based application launcher, with the ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmrun/ || gmrun
  • GNOME Do — Application launcher inspired by Quicksilver with many plugins, originally developed for the GNOME desktop.
http://do.cooperteam.net/ || gnome-do
  • Gnome-Pie — Circular application launcher (pie menu) for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices.
https://simmesimme.github.io/gnome-pie.html || gnome-pie
  • Kupfer — Convenient command and access tool for the GNOME desktop that can launch applications, open documents and access different types of objects and act on them.
https://kupferlauncher.github.io/ || kupfer
  • Launchy — Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.
http://www.launchy.net/ || launchy
  • rofi — Popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and pango.
http://davedavenport.github.io/rofi/ || rofi
  • Synapse — Semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.
https://launchpad.net/synapse-project || synapse

1.5.6 Application menu editors

  • Alacarte — Add or remove applications from the main menu.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/alacarte || alacarte
  • KMenuEdit — Edit one of the KDE application launchers.
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/kmenuedit/index.html || kmenuedit
  • Mozo — Change which applications are shown on the main menu.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mozo || mozo

1.5.7 Wallpaper setters

See also Wikipedia:Wallpaper (computing).

  • feh — A lightweight and powerful image viewer that can also be used to manage the desktop wallpaper.
https://feh.finalrewind.org/ || feh
  • habak — A background changing app.
http://fvwm-crystal.sourceforge.net/ || habak
  • hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/hsetroot || hsetroot
  • Nitrogen — A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.
http://projects.l3ib.org/nitrogen/ || nitrogen
  • pywal — Changes the wallpaper and creates matching colorschemes for various applications (rofi, i3, terminals)
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal || python-pywal
  • Variety — Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
http://peterlevi.com/variety/ || variety
Tip: In order to avoid installing one more package, you may find convenient to use the display utility from imagemagick or gm display from graphicsmagick. E.g.: display -backdrop -background '#3f3f3f' -flatten -window root image.

1.5.8 Virtual desktop pagers

See also Wikipedia:Pager (GUI).

  • bbpager — Dockable pager for blackbox and other window managers.
http://bbtools.sourceforge.net/download.php?file=6 || bbpager

1.5.9 Desktop widgets

  • gDesklets — System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop.
https://launchpad.net/gdesklets || gdesklets
  • KRuler — Displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Part of

kdegraphics.

https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kruler/ || kruler
  • Screenlets — Widget framework that consists of small owner-drawn applications.
https://launchpad.net/screenlets || screenlets-pack-basic

1.5.10 Desktop notifications

See: Notification servers.

1.5.11 Clipboard managers

See Clipboard#Managers.