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Contents
- 1 Others
- 1.1 Organization
- 1.2 Education
- 1.3 Accessibility
- 1.4 Display managers
- 1.5 Desktop environments
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
- Kontact — Integrated solution to your personal information management.
- Osmo — GTK+ personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.
1.1.2 Time management
1.1.2.1 Console
- Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)
- khal — Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)
- Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.
- When — Simple personal calendar program.
1.1.2.2 Graphical
- chinese-calendar — Chinese traditional calendar for Ubuntu Kylin.
- Deepin Calendar — Calendar application for Deepin.
- GNOME Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME.
- KAlarm — Personal alarm message, command and email scheduler, part of
- KOrganizer — Calendar and scheduling program, part of
- Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app for Nextcloud.
- Orage — GTK+ calendar and task manager often seen integrated with Xfce.
- TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
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.
- GNOME Clocks — Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality.
- GNOME Pomodoro — Time management utility for GNOME based on the Pomodoro Technique.
- http://gnomepomodoro.org/ || Warning: This page points to an AUR package. Please remove the link. Reason: See Issue#1983
- 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.
- Kronometer — Stopwatch application for KDE.
- KTeaTime — Handy timer for steeping tea.
- Orage Globaltime — Show clocks from different countries.
- RSIBreak — Takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI).
- Workrave — Program that assists in the recovery and prevention of RSI.
1.1.4 Task management
1.1.4.1 Console
- Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.
- todoman — Command-line To-do list manager (supports CalDAV)
1.1.4.2 Graphical
- GNOME To Do — Personal task manager for GNOME.
- Nextcloud Tasks — Tasks app for Nextcloud.
- Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C#.
- Zanshin — To-do management application based on Akonadi.
1.1.5 Contacts management
1.1.5.1 Console
- Abook — Text-based contacts manager designed for use with mutt.
- Khard — Command-line addressbook that is able to sync with CardDAV-servers.
1.1.5.2 Graphical
- GNOME Contacts — Contacts manager for GNOME.
- KAddressBook — Address book manager for KDE.
- LDAP Administration Tool — Browse LDAP-based directories and add/edit/delete entries contained within.
- Nextcloud Contacts — Contacts app for Nextcloud.
- phpLDAPadmin — LDAP client webapp. Its hierarchical tree-viewer and advanced search functionality make it intuitive to browse and administer your LDAP directory.
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.
- GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.
- HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
- 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.
- Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
- Money Manager EX — An easy-to-use personal finance suite
- Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.
1.1.7 Cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin Core — Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.
- Electrum — Lightweight Bitcoin client.
- Etherwall — Ethereum wallet.
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.
- Planner — Project management application for GNOME.
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.
- KWordQuiz — Tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. Part of
- Parley — Program to help you memorize things. It uses the spaced repetition learning method, also known as flash cards. Part of
1.2.2 Touch typing
1.2.2.1 Console
- GNU Typist — Universal typing tutor.
- Typespeed — Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS.
1.2.2.2 Graphical
- Klavaro — Teaching touch typing that intends to be keyboard and language independent.
- KTouch — Program to learn and practice touch typing. Part of
- TIPP10 — Intelligent touch typing tutor.
1.2.3 Recipe management
- GNOME Recipes — Recipe management application for GNOME.
- Gourmet — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.
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.
- eSpeak NG — Fork of eSpeak (due to inactivity of original maintainer).
- 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.
- Flite — Lightweight speech synthesis engine.
- Gespeaker — GTK+ frontend for espeak. It allows you to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed.
- KMouth — Speech synthesizer frontend which enables persons that cannot speak to let their computer speak.
- Orca — Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, using eSpeak (via Speech Dispatcher).
- Speech Dispatcher — Common interface to speech synthesis. It has backends for eSpeak, Festival, and a few other speech synthesizers.
1.3.2 Speech recognition
See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.
- Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.
1.3.3 Screen magnifiers
- KMag — Small KDE utility to magnify a part of the screen.
1.3.4 Mouse
- Easystroke — Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.
- 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.
- Mousetweaks — Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices.
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.
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.
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1.5.3 Taskbars
See also Wikipedia:Taskbar.
- Cairo-Dock — Highly customizable dock and launcher application.
- Docky — Full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
- GNOME Panel — Panel included in the GNOME Flashback desktop.
- Latte — Dock based on Plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids.
- LXPanel — Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.
- MATE Panel — Panel included in the MATE desktop.
- PyPanel — Lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C.
- Tint2 — Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.
- Xfce Panel — Panel included in the Xfce desktop.
- xmobar — A lightweight, text-based, status bar written in Haskell.
1.5.4 System tray
- AllTray — Dock other applications into the system tray (notification area).
- 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.
- Trayer — Lightweight GTK+-based system tray (notification area).
1.5.5 Application launchers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.
- Albert — Sophisticated, plugin based standalone keyboard launcher.
- Application Finder — Easy-to-use application launcher from Xfce.
- dmenu — Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.
- Gmrun — Lightweight GTK+-based application launcher, with the ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features.
- GNOME Do — Application launcher inspired by Quicksilver with many plugins, originally developed for the GNOME desktop.
- Gnome-Pie — Circular application launcher (pie menu) for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices.
- 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.
- Launchy — Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.
- rofi — Popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and pango.
- 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.
- Alacarte — Add or remove applications from the main menu.
- KMenuEdit — Edit one of the KDE application launchers.
- Mozo — Change which applications are shown on the main menu.
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.
- habak — A background changing app.
- hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.
- Nitrogen — A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.
- pywal — Changes the wallpaper and creates matching colorschemes for various applications (rofi, i3, terminals)
- Variety — Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
1.5.8 Virtual desktop pagers
See also Wikipedia:Pager (GUI).
- bbpager — Dockable pager for blackbox and other window managers.
1.5.9 Desktop widgets
- gDesklets — System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop.
- KRuler — Displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Part of
- Screenlets — Widget framework that consists of small owner-drawn applications.
1.5.10 Desktop notifications
See: Notification servers.
1.5.11 Clipboard managers
See Clipboard#Managers.