List of applications/Utilities

Internet – Multimedia – Utilities – Documents – Security – Science – Other

Utilities

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

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

http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php || 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

• CoreTerminal — Terminal emulator based on qtermwidget. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coreterminal^AUR

• CuteCom — A graphical serial terminal.

https://gitlab.com/cutecom/cutecom || cutecom^AUR

• Deepin Terminal — Terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.

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

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

https://github.com/mej/Eterm || eterm^AUR

• foot — Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with sixel support

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot || foot

• Hyper — A terminal with JS/CSS support. Based on the Electron platform.

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

• Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.

https://konsole.kde.org/ || konsole

• moserial — GTK-based serial terminal for the GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Moserial || moserial

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

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

• 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

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

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

• kermit — A VTE-based terminal emulator that aims to be simple, fast and effective.

https://github.com/orhun/kermit || kermit^AUR

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

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

KMS-based

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

framebuffer-based

In the GNU/Linux world, the framebuffer can refer to a virtual device in the Linux kernel (fbdev) or the virtual framebuffer system for X (xvfb). This section mainly lists the terminal emulators 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.

• less — 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

• Vim can also be used as a pager.

Terminal multiplexers

See also Wikipedia:Terminal multiplexer.

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

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

• wezterm — GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer implemented in Rust.

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ || wezterm

File managers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file managers.

Console

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

https://github.com/gokcehan/lf || lf

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

https://ranger.github.io/ || ranger

Graphical

• CoreFM — Simple lightweight easy to use file manager with many features like image previews, mime-icon support, split view, auto-mounting of removable media, drag-n-drop support etc. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corefm^AUR

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

https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/ || konqueror

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

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

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.

https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ || GTK: doublecmd-gtk2, Qt5: doublecmd-qt5

• trolCommander — Lightweight, dual-pane file manager written in Java. Fork of muCommander.

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

Trash management

See Trash management#Trash creation.

File synchronization and backup

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

• borg — Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption that supports backing up over ssh

https://www.borgbackup.org || borg

• Duply — Command-line front-end for duplicity which simplifies running it. It manages backup job settings in profiles and allows to batch execute commands.

https://www.duply.net/ || duply^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

• 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.

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

• YARsync — A Python wrapper around rsync, providing file synchronization and backup with an interface similar to git.

https://github.com/ynikitenko/yarsync || yarsync^AUR

Archiving and compression tools

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

Archive managers

• LXQt File Archiver — Simple and lightweight desktop-agnostic Qt file archiver.

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-archiver || lxqt-archiver

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 .pac* files.

Console

See from diffutils and its alternatives.

• difftastic — Compares files using their syntax trees

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk || difftastic

Graphical

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

https://meldmerge.org/ || meld

Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and .

Console

See from .

• f2 — Cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely, can also rename files based on audio tags.

https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2 || f2^AUR

Graphical

• Caja-Rename — Batch renaming extension for Caja.

https://tari.in/www/software/caja-rename || caja-rename^AUR

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.

Console

See find(1) from and its alternatives.

Graphical

• KFind — Search tool for KDE to find files by name, type or content. Has internal search and supports locate.

https://apps.kde.org/kfind/ || kfind

File indexers

These programs index your files to allow for quick searching.

• fsearch — A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK 3.

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch || fsearch-git^AUR

Full-text searching

See from and its alternatives, which provide non-indexed full-text search.

Full-text indexers

• Tracker — All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database, used by GNOME Documents, Music, Photos and Videos.

https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/tracker/ || tracker3

Code forges

Code forge clients

• git-open — Open a repository website (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) in your browser

https://github.com/paulirish/git-open || git-open^AUR

Version control systems

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of revision control software.

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

http://darcs.net/ || darcs

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

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

Build automation

See also Wikipedia:List of build automation software.

• Gradle — Powerful build system for the JVM.

https://gradle.org/ || gradle

Integrated development environments

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of integrated development environments.

For PHP specific list, see PHP#Development tools.

• 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

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

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

• MPLAB — IDE for Microchip PIC and dsPIC development.

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

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

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

Java IDEs

Python IDEs

• Ninja-IDE — IDE for Python development.

https://ninja-ide.org/ || ninja-ide^AUR

Educational IDEs

• Processing — Playground for teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming in a visual context.

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

Debuggers

• 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

• 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^AUR

Lexing and parsing

Lex and Yacc are part of POSIX.

• flex — A tool for generating text-scanning programs, alternative to Lex.

https://github.com/westes/flex || flex

And then there are also:

GUI builders

• FLUID — FLTK GUI designer.

https://www.fltk.org/ || fltk

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

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

Hex editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of hex editors.

JSON tools

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

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron || gron

• jq — Command-line JSON processor

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

• the Elvish shell has built-in support for JSON

Literate programming

See also Wikipedia:Literate programming.

UML modelers

See also Wikipedia:List of Unified Modeling Language tools.

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

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

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

https://plantuml.com || plantuml

API documentation browsers

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

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

Issue tracking systems

• Redmine — A flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

https://www.redmine.org || redmine

See also Git server#Advanced web applications.

Code review

• GitLab also supports code reviews.

See also Wikipedia:List of tools for code review.

Game development

See also Wikipedia:List of game engines.

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

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

• Unity — Unity is a flexible and powerful development platform for creating multi-platform 3D and 2D games. Proprietary, but a free version is available for certain use-cases (see here for more details).

https://unity3d.com/unity || unityhub^AUR

Repository managers

Character selectors

• GNOME Characters — Character map application for GNOME.

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

On-screen keyboards

• Maliit Keyboard — Virtual keyboard useful for KDE Plasma-Wayland

https://maliit.github.io/ || maliit-keyboard

• Squeekboard — GTK 3 virtual keyboard for Wayland, written in Rust/C.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard || squeekboard^AUR

Keyboard layout switchers

Keybinding managers

See Keyboard shortcuts#Xorg.

Input methods

See the main article: Input method.

Partitioning tools

See Partitioning#Partitioning tools.

Formatting tools

See File systems#Types of file systems.

Cloning tools

See Disk cloning.

Mount tools

See also udisks#Mount helpers.

• 9mount — Mount 9p filesystems.

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

Console

• gdu — Disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go.

https://github.com/Dundee/gdu || gdu

Graphical

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

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

Disk health status

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

File recovery tools

See File recovery#List of utilities.

Console

• fclones — Very fast duplicate file Finder written in rust.

https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones || fclones^AUR

Graphical

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

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

• Shredder — Graphical user interface for rmlint.

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint || rmlint-shredder

Disk image writing

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

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

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

• Popsicle — Utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel, written in Rust.

https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle || popsicle^AUR

Task managers

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

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

• btop — Rewrite of bpytop in C++

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop || btop

• LXTask — Lightweight task manager for LXDE.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || lxtask

System monitors

See also Category:Monitoring.

• 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^AUR

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

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

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

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

Hardware sensor monitoring

See lm_sensors#Graphical front-ends.

Console

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

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

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

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch || neofetch

Graphical

• 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

System log viewers

• MATE System Log — System log viewer for MATE.

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

Font viewers

See also Wikipedia:Font management software.

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

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

Help viewers

See man page#Installation.

Command schedulers

See also Cron.

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

https://apps.kde.org/kcron/^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || kcron

Shutdown timers

Clock synchronization

See 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.

System management

See Systemd#GUI configuration tools.

Boot management

See GRUB/Tips and tricks#GUI configuration tools.

Package management

See pacman tips#Utilities.

Configuration management

• cdist — Simple configuration management system with Arch Linux support.

https://www.cdi.st/ || cdist^AUR

Virtualization

See Libvirt#Client and VirtualBox.

Compatibility layers

See Wine (Windows) and Darling (MacOS).