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Contents
- 1 Utilities
- 1.1 Terminal
- 1.2 Files
- 1.3 Development
- 1.3.1 Version control systems
- 1.3.2 Build automation
- 1.3.3 Integrated development environments
- 1.3.4 Debuggers
- 1.3.5 Lexing and parsing
- 1.3.6 GUI builders
- 1.3.7 Hex editors
- 1.3.8 JSON tools
- 1.3.9 Literate programming
- 1.3.10 UML modelers
- 1.3.11 API documentation browsers
- 1.3.12 Issue tracking systems
- 1.3.13 Code review
- 1.3.14 Game development
- 1.4 Text input
- 1.5 Disks
- 1.6 System
- 1.6.1 Task managers
- 1.6.2 System monitors
- 1.6.3 Hardware sensor monitoring
- 1.6.4 System information viewers
- 1.6.5 System log viewers
- 1.6.6 Font viewers
- 1.6.7 Help viewers
- 1.6.8 Command schedulers
- 1.6.9 Shutdown timers
- 1.6.10 Clock synchronization
- 1.6.11 Screen management
- 1.6.12 Backlight management
- 1.6.13 Color management
- 1.6.14 Printer management
- 1.6.15 Bluetooth management
- 1.6.16 Power management
- 1.6.17 Package management
1 Utilities
1.1 Terminal
1.1.1 Command shells
See the main article: Command-line shell.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of command shells.
1.1.2 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.
- Cool Retro Term — A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.
- kitty — A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator
- PuTTY — Highly configurable ssh/telnet/serial console program.
- QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.
- Terminology — Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player.
- urxvt — Highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, a Quake style drop-down mode and pseudo-transparency.
- 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.
- Yakuake — Drop-down terminal (Quake style) emulator based on Konsole.
1.1.2.1 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.
- GNOME Terminal — A terminal emulator included in the GNOME desktop with support for Unicode and pseudo-transparency.
- Guake — Drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop.
- LXTerminal — Desktop independent terminal emulator for LXDE.
- MATE terminal — A fork of Wikipedia:GNOME terminal for the MATE desktop.
- Pantheon Terminal — A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal emulator. It's designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration.
- sakura — Terminal emulator based on GTK+ and VTE.
- Terminator — Terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panels.
- Termite — Keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.
- Tilda — Configurable drop down terminal emulator.
- Tilix — Tiling terminal emulator for GNOME.
- Xfce Terminal — Terminal emulator included in the Xfce desktop with support for a colorized prompt and a tabbed interface.
1.1.2.2 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.
1.1.2.3 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.
1.1.3 Terminal pagers
See also Wikipedia:Terminal pager.
- more — A simple and feature-light pager. It is a part of util-linux.
- less — A program similar to more, but with support for both forward and backward scrolling, as well as partial loading of files.
- most — A pager with support for multiple windows, left and right scrolling, and built-in colour support
- mcview — A pager with mouse and colour support. It is bundled with midnight commander.
1.1.4 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.
- dtach — Program that emulates the detach feature of GNU Screen.
- dvtm — dwm-style window manager in the console.
- GNU Screen — Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
- tmux — BSD licensed terminal multiplexer.
1.2 Files
1.2.1 File managers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file managers.
1.2.1.1 Console
- Midnight Commander — Console-based, dual-paneled file manager.
- nnn — Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
- Ranger — Console-based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features.
- Vifm — Ncurses-based two-panel file manager with vi-like keybindings.
1.2.1.2 Graphical
- Caja — The file manager for the MATE desktop.
- Deepin File Manager — File manager developed for Deepin.
- Dolphin — File manager included in the KDE desktop.
- GNOME Files — Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts.
- Konqueror — File manager and web browser for the KDE desktop.
- Liri Files — The file manager for Liri.
- Nemo — Nemo is the file manager of the Cinnamon desktop. A fork of Nautilus.
- Pantheon Files — File browser designed for elementary OS.
- PathFinder — File browser that comes with the FOX toolkit.
- PCManFM — Very fast and lightweight file manager which can also optionally manage the desktop icons and background.
- ROX — Small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels.
- Thunar — File manager that can be run as a daemon with excellent start up and directory load times.
1.2.1.2.1 Twin-panel
Note that some of these twin-panel file managers can also be set to have only one pane.
- 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.
- Tux Commander — Windowed file manager with two panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.
1.2.2 Trash management
- trash-cli — A command-line interface implementing FreeDesktop.org's Trash specification.
1.2.3 File synchronization
See also Synchronization and backup programs#Data synchronization and Wikipedia:Comparison of file synchronization software.
- git-annex — Manage files with git, without checking the file contents into git.
- 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.
- 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.
- SparkleShare — File sharing and collaboration application written in C#. It can sync with any Git server over SSH.
- 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
- 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.
1.2.4 Archiving and compression tools
For archiving and compression command-line tools, see Archiving and compression.
1.2.4.1 Archive managers
- Ark — Archiving tool included in the KDE desktop.
- Engrampa — Archive manager for MATE
- File Roller — Archive manager included in the GNOME desktop.
- Xarchiver — Lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK+.
- https://github.com/ib/xarchiver || GTK+ 3: xarchiver, GTK+ 2: xarchiver-gtk2
1.2.5 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.
- Diffuse — Small and simple text merge tool written in Python.
- KDiff3 — File and directory diff and merge tool for the KDE desktop.
- 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.
- Meld — Visual diff and merge tool that can compare files, directories, and version controlled projects.
Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and ediff.
1.2.6 Batch renamers
- GPRename — GTK+ batch renamer for files and directories.
- KRename — Very powerful batch file renamer for the KDE desktop.
- rename.pl — Batch renamer based on perl regex.
- 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.
1.2.7 File searching
This section lists utilities for file searching based on filename, file path or metadata. For full-text searching, see the next section.
See also Wikipedia:List of search engines#Desktop search engines.
1.2.7.1 Console
See find and its alternatives.
1.2.7.2 Graphical
- Catfish — Versatile file searching tool by Xfce, can be powered by find, locate and Zeitgeist.
- GNOME Search Tool — GNOME utility to search for files, depends on GNOME/Files.
- KFind — Search tool for KDE to find files by name, type or content. Has internal search and supports locate.
- MATE Search Tool — MATE utility to search for files.
- regexxer — Interactive search and replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions.
1.2.7.2.1 File indexers
These programs index your files to allow for quick searching.
1.2.8 Full-text searching
Grep and its alternatives provide non-indexed full-text search.
1.2.8.1 Full-text indexers
- Recoll — Full text search tool based on Xapian, has CLI and GUI.
- Tracker — All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database, used by GNOME Documents, Music, Photos and Videos.
- Zeitgeist — Event aggregation framework for the user's activities and notifications (files opened, websites visited, conversations had, etc.), has several third-party front-ends.
1.3 Development
1.3.1 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.
- CVS — Concurrent Versions System, a client-server revision control system.
- Darcs — Distributed revision control system that was designed to replace traditional, centralized source control systems such as CVS and Subversion.
- Fossil — Distributed VCS with bug tracking, wiki, forum, and technotes.
- Git — Distributed revision control and source code management system with an emphasis on speed.
- Mercurial — Distributed version control system written in Python and similar in many ways to Git.
- Subversion — Full-featured centralized version control system originally designed to be a better CVS.
1.3.2 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.
- Apache Maven — Build automation tool used primarily for Java.
- CMake — Family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
- GNU make — GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs.
- http://www.gnu.org/software/make || make (part of
- Gradle — Powerful build system for the JVM.
1.3.3 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gambas — IDE based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions.
- Geany — Small and lightweight IDE with many supported many programming and markup languages including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal.
- GNOME Builder — Tool to write and contribute to great GNOME-based applications.
- KDevelop — Feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.
- 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.
- LiteIDE — Simple Go IDE.
- Qt Creator — Lightweight, cross-platform C++ integrated development environment with a focus on Qt.
1.3.3.1 Python IDEs
- PyCharm — Python IDE with support for code analysis, debugging, unit testing, version control and web development with Django.
- Spyder — Scientific Python Development Environment providing MATLAB-like features.
- https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder || spyder2 (Python 2) or spyder3 (Python 3)
1.3.3.2 Educational IDEs
- KTurtle — Educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easily as possible. Part of
- Processing — Playground for teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming in a visual context.
- 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.
1.3.4 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.
- Alleyoop — Find memory-management problems in your programs using the valgrind tool.
- D-Feet — Easy to use D-Bus debugger to inspect D-Bus interfaces of running programs and invoke methods on those interfaces.
- GammaRay — Qt-application inspection and manipulation tool.
- KCachegrind — Profile data visualization tool, used to determine the most time consuming execution parts of program.
- KDbg — Graphical user interface to GDB, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code.
- Massif-Visualizer — Visualizer for Valgrind Massif data files.
- Nemiver — Easy to use standalone C/C++ debugger (GDB front-end) that integrates well in the GNOME environment.
- Qt QDbusViewer — Tool to introspect D-Bus objects and messages.
- 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.
1.3.5 Lexing and parsing
Lex and Yacc are part of POSIX.
- flex — A tool for generating text-scanning programs, alternative to Lex.
- Berkeley Yacc — Berkeley reimplementation of the Unix parser generator Yacc.
- GNU Bison — The GNU general-purpose parser generator, alternative to byacc.
And then there are also:
- ANTLR — Parser generator, written in Java, for parsing structured text or binary files.
- LPeg — Pattern-matching library, based on PEGs, for Lua.
- peg/leg — Recursive-descent parser generators for C.
- Ragel — Compiles finite state machines from regular languages into executable C, C++, Objective-C, or D code.
1.3.6 GUI builders
- FLUID — FLTK GUI designer.
- Glade — Create or open user interface designs for GTK+ applications.
- KUIViewer — Quick viewer for Qt Designer UI File.
- Qt Designer — Tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Qt Widgets.
1.3.7 Hex editors
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of hex editors.
- Bless — High quality, full featured hex editor.
- GHex — Hex editor for GNOME, which allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in either hex or ascii.
- Okteta — KDE hex editor for viewing and editing the raw data of files.
1.3.8 JSON tools
- jq — Command-line JSON processor
- jshon — A JSON parser for the shell.
- the Elvish shell has built-in support for JSON
1.3.9 Literate programming
See also Wikipedia:Literate programming.
1.3.10 UML modelers
See also Wikipedia:List of Unified Modeling Language tools.
- Umbrello — Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram program based on KDE Technology.
1.3.11 API documentation browsers
- Devhelp — Developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation.
- Qt Assistant — Tool for viewing on-line documentation in Qt help file format.
- Zeal — Offline API documentation browser for software developers.
1.3.12 Issue tracking systems
- Flyspray — Lightweight, web-based bug tracking system written in PHP
- Redmine — A flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails, it is cross-platform and cross-database.
See also Git server#Advanced web applications.
1.3.13 Code review
- GitLab also supports code reviews.
See also Wikipedia:List of tools for code review.
1.3.14 Game development
See also Wikipedia:List of game engines.
- 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.
1.4 Text input
1.4.1 Character selectors
- GNOME Characters — Character map application for GNOME.
- gucharmap — GTK+ 3 character selector for GNOME.
- KCharSelect — Tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them into the clipboard. Part of
1.4.2 On-screen keyboards
- CellWriter — Grid-entry handwriting recognition input panel.
- Onboard — Onscreen keyboard useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users.
- QVKbd — Virtual keyboard written in Qt.
1.4.3 Keyboard layout switchers
- xxkb — A lightweight keyboard layout indicator and switcher.
1.4.4 Input methods
See the main article: Internationalization#Input methods.
1.5 Disks
1.5.1 Partitioning tools
See Partitioning#Partitioning tools.
1.5.2 Formatting tools
See File systems#Types of file systems.
1.5.3 Cloning tools
See Disk cloning#Disk cloning software.
1.5.4 Mount tools
See also udisks#Mount helpers.
- 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.
- udevil — Mounts removable devices as a regular user, show device info, and monitor device changes. Only depends on udev and glib.
1.5.5 Disk usage display
- Filelight — Disk usage analyzer that creates an interactive map of concentric, segmented rings that help visualise disk usage on your computer.
- GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer — Disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop to check folder sizes and available disk space.
- Graphical Disk Map — Disk usage analyzer that draws a map of rectangles sized according to file or dir sizes.
- MATE Disk Usage Analyzer — Disk usage analyzing tool for MATE Desktop.
- ncdu — Simple ncurses disk usage analyzer.
1.5.6 Disk health status
See S.M.A.R.T.#GUI Applications.
1.5.7 File recovery tools
See File recovery#List of utilities.
1.5.8 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.
- fdupes — Program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
- 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.
1.5.9 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.
- GNOME MultiWriter — Write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once.
1.6 System
1.6.1 Task managers
- Deepin System Monitor — Monitor system process status for Deepin desktop.
- GNOME System Monitor — System monitor for GNOME to view and manage system resources.
- GNOME Usage — View information about use of system resources, like memory and disk space.
- htop — Simple, ncurses interactive process viewer.
- LXTask — Lightweight task manager for LXDE.
- MATE System Monitor — System monitor for MATE.
- Task Manager — GTK2 process management application for Xfce.
1.6.2 System monitors
See also Category:Status monitoring and notification
- Conky — Lightweight, scriptable system monitor.
- 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.
- dstat — Versatile resource statistics tool.
- glances — CLI curses-based monitoring tool in Python.
- netdata — Web-based real-time performance monitor.
- Sysstat — Collection of resource monitoring tools: iostat, isag, mpstat, pidstat, sadf, sar.
1.6.3 Hardware sensor monitoring
See lm_sensors#Graphical front-ends.
1.6.4 System information viewers
1.6.4.1 Console
- archey3 — Python script to display system infomation alongside the Arch Linux logo.
- dmidecode — It reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.
- hwdetect — Simple script to list modules that are exported in /sys/.
- hwinfo — Powerful hardware detection tool come from openSUSE.
- neofetch — A fast, highly customizable system info script that supports displaying images with w3m.
- screenfetch — Similar to archey but has an option to take a screenshot. Written in bash.
1.6.4.2 Graphical
- hardinfo — A small application that displays information about your hardware and operating system, it looks like the Device Manager in Windows.
- lshw — A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine with CLI and GTK interfaces.
- KDE Info Center — Centralized and convenient overview of system information for KDE.
- USBView — Display the topology of devices on the USB bus.
1.6.5 System log viewers
- GNOME Logs — Viewer for the systemd journal. Part of
- GNOME System Log — System log viewer for GNOME.
- KSystemLog — System log viewer tool for KDE.
- MATE System Log — System log viewer for MATE.
- 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.
1.6.6 Font viewers
See also Wikipedia:Font management software.
- GNOME Fonts — Font viewer for GNOME.
- KFontview — KDE application to view and install different types of fonts.
- MATE Font Viewer — Font viewer for MATE.
- Waterfall — GTK+ application to view all characters of font in all sizes.
1.6.7 Help viewers
See man page#Viewer applications.
1.6.8 Command schedulers
See also Cron.
- GNOME Schedule — Graphical interface to crontab and at for GNOME.
- KCron — Tool for KDE to run applications in the background at regular intervals. It's a graphical interface to the Cron command.
- 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.
1.6.9 Shutdown timers
- 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.
1.6.10 Clock synchronization
See Time synchronization.
1.6.11 Screen management
See Xrandr#Graphical front-ends.
1.6.12 Backlight management
See Backlight#Backlight utilities.
1.6.13 Color management
See ICC profiles#Utilities and Backlight#Color correction.
1.6.14 Printer management
1.6.15 Bluetooth management
See Bluetooth#Front-ends.
1.6.16 Power management
See Power management#Userspace tools.
