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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.

https://kontact.kde.org/ || kontact

• Osmo — GTK personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.

http://osmo-pim.sourceforge.net || osmo

• SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups with Lightning — Extension to SeaMonkey that provides calendar and task support.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey

• Thunderbird with Lightning — Extension to Mozilla Thunderbird that provides calendar and task support.

https://www.thunderbird.net/calendar/ || thunderbird

Console

• Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)

https://calcurse.org || calcurse

• ccal — A console program which writes a calendar together with Chinese calendar to standard output.

http://ccal.chinesebay.com/ccal/ccal.htm || ccal^AUR

• khal — Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)

https://github.com/pimutils/khal || khal

• mail2rem — Small script for importing .ics calendars from Maildir to Remind calendar.

https://github.com/esovetkin/mail2rem || mail2rem-git^AUR

• Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.

http://palcal.sourceforge.net/ || pal^AUR

Graphical

• chinese-calendar — Chinese traditional calendar for Ubuntu Kylin.

https://launchpad.net/chinese-calendar/ || chinese-calendar

• CoreTime — Very simple Clock/Calendar application which shows a clock, supports alarms, reminders, a stop watch and a timer. Part of C-Suite.

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

• Day Planner — Program designed to help you easily plan and manage your time. It can manage appointments, birthdays and more.

https://www.day-planner.org/ || dayplanner^AUR

• Outspline — Extensible outliner with advanced time management features, supporting events with complex recurrence schemes.

https://kynikos.github.io/outspline/ || outspline^AUR

Countdown timers and stopwatch

• Kronometer — Stopwatch application for KDE.

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

Break timers

• Safe Eyes — Tool to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).

https://slgobinath.github.io/SafeEyes/ || safeeyes^AUR

Pomodoro timers

See Wikipedia:Pomodoro Technique for an introduction.

• Pilorama — Eye-candy timeboxing tool written in QML

https://github.com/eplatonoff/pilorama || pilorama-git^AUR

• Tomighty — Desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

https://tomighty.github.io || tomighty^AUR

Time trackers

• Wakatime — Open source plugins for metrics about your programming with intuitive web-interface.

https://wakatime.com/ || wakatime

Console

• Taskbook — Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.

https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook || taskbook^AUR

Graphical

• Endeavour — Personal task manager for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Todo || endeavour

• ptask — GTK task manager based on Taskwarrior.

https://wpitchoune.net/ptask/ || ptask^AUR

Console

Graphical

• Communicator — Integrated address book and dialer application features the search for and view of contacts, edit contact details, and make new contacts, favorites, and dialer pad.

https://mauikit.org/ || communicator

• Thunderbird with CardBook extension — address book based on the CardDAV and vCard standards.

https://gitlab.com/CardBook/CardBook || thunderbird

Financial management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of accounting software.

Console

• Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.

https://www.ledger-cli.org/ || ledger

Graphical

• 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.

https://kmymoney.org/ || kmymoney

Cryptocurrency

• ARK Desktop Wallet — Wallet for ARK.

https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/desktop-wallet || ark-desktop^AUR

• Etherwall — Ethereum wallet.

https://www.etherwall.com/ || etherwall

Project management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of project management software.

• GanttProject — Project scheduling application featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring.

https://www.ganttproject.biz/ || ganttproject^AUR

Recipe management

• Gourmand — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.

https://github.com/GourmandRecipeManager/gourmand || gourmand^AUR

Education

See also List of games#Education.

Flashcards

See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software.

• jVLT — Vocabulary learning tool.

https://www.linuxlinks.com/jVLT/ || jvlt^AUR

• StudyFlash — Learn flashcards inside your terminal

https://github.com/Alone2/studyFlash || studyflash^AUR

Console

• typiskt — touchtype training in the terminal (Bash).

https://github.com/budlabs/typiskt || typiskt^AUR

Graphical

• TIPP10 — Intelligent touch typing tutor.

https://www.tipp10.com/ || tipp10

Accessibility

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

Speech synthesizers

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

• 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^AUR

• Open JTalk — Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-jtalk/ || open-jtalk^AUR

Speech recognition

See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.

• Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.

https://github.com/julius-speech/julius || julius^AUR

• Numen — Voice control for handsfree computing

https://sr.ht/~geb/numen/ || numen^AUR

Screen magnifiers

• xzoom — Zoom, rotate and mirror area of X display.

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/libs/!INDEX.short.html || xzoom^AUR

On-screen annotation

Mouse

• Easystroke — Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.

https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki || easystroke^AUR

Display managers

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

Desktop environments

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

Console

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

Graphical

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

Composite managers

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

Wayland Compositors

See the main article: Wayland#Compositors.

Window tilers

• QuickTile — Lightweight standalone alternative to Compiz Grid plugin.

http://ssokolow.com/quicktile/ || quicktile-git^AUR

Taskbars

See also Wikipedia:Taskbar.

• Dash to Panel — A fully customizable icon taskbar for gnome-shell. Moves the dash into the GNOME main panel, similar to KDE Plasma and Windows 10.

https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel || gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel^AUR

• MATE Panel — Panel included in the MATE desktop.

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

• Vala Panel — Gtk3 panel for compositing window managers

https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel || vala-panel-git^AUR

System tray

• AllTray — Dock other applications into the system tray (notification area).

https://github.com/mbt/alltray || alltray

Application launchers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.

• Application Finder — Easy-to-use application launcher from Xfce.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/start || xfce4-appfinder

• dswitcher — dmenu-based window switcher that works regardless of workspace or minimization.

https://github.com/Antithesisx/dswitcher || dswitcher-git^AUR

• 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

• Launchy — Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.

https://www.launchy.net/ || launchy

• 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

Application menu editors

• Ezame — Desktop and menu file editor.

https://github.com/linux-man/ezame || ezame^AUR

Wallpaper setters

See also Wikipedia:Wallpaper (computing).

• bgs — An extremely fast and small background setter for X based on imlib2.

https://github.com/Gottox/bgs/ || bgs-git^AUR

• HydraPaper — GTK utility to set two different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME.

https://gabmus.gitlab.io/HydraPaper/ || hydrapaper-git^AUR

• pybgsetter — Multi-backend (hsetroot, Esetroot, habak, feh) to set desktop wallpaper.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88997 || pybgsetter^AUR

• Xlivebg — A live wallpaper framework and collection of live wallpapers for the X window system.

http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/sw/xlivebg/ || xlivebg^AUR

Virtual desktop pagers

See also Wikipedia:Pager (GUI).

• Netwmpager — A NetWM/EWMH compatible pager.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/files/netwmpager/ || netwmpager^AUR

Desktop widgets

Desktop notifications

See: Notification servers.

Clipboard managers

See Clipboard#Managers.

Logout UI

• wlogout — Logout menu for wayland

https://github.com/ArtsyMacaw/wlogout || wlogout^AUR

Text art

See ASCII art#Software.