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## Others

### Organization

#### 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/ || seamonkeyAUR

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

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

#### Time management

##### 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 || ccalAUR

- 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-gitAUR

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

  http://palcal.sourceforge.net/ || palAUR

- pcal — A tool to create pdf calendars from pcal input which can be exported by some calendar programs.

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcal/ || pcalAUR

- Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.

  https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind

- When — Simple personal calendar program.

  http://lightandmatter.com/when/when.html || when

- Wyrd — Text-based front-end to Remind, a calendar and alarm program used on UNIX and Linux computers.

  https://gitlab.com/wyrd-calendar/wyrd || wyrdAUR

##### 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/[dead link 2023-06-17 ⓘ] || coretimeAUR

- 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/ || dayplannerAUR

- Deepin Calendar — Calendar application for Deepin.

  https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-calendar/ || deepin-calendar

- etmtk (Event and Task Manager) — Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.

  https://people.duke.edu/~dgraham/ETMtk/ || etmtkAUR

- Gahshomar — Persian (Jalali/Farsi) calendar.

  https://www.gahshomar.org/gahshomar/ || gahshomarAUR

- GNOME Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME. Part of gnome.

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar || gnome-calendar

- KAlarm — Personal alarm message, command and email scheduler, part of kde-pim.

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

- KOrganizer — Calendar and scheduling program, part of kde-pim.

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

- Kalendar — A calendar application using Akonadi to sync with external services (NextCloud, GMail, ...).

  https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar || kalendar

- Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app for Nextcloud.

  https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar || nextcloud-app-calendar

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

  https://kynikos.github.io/outspline/ || outsplineAUR

- TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.

  https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind

#### Timers

##### Countdown timers and stopwatch

- GNOME Clocks — Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality. Part of gnome.

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Clocks || gnome-clocks

- Hourglass — Simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS.

  https://github.com/sgpthomas/hourglass || hourglass-gitAUR

- Kronometer — Stopwatch application for KDE.

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

- KTeaTime — Handy timer for steeping tea.

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

- pystopwatch — Stopwatch written in Python with a clock and two countdown functions that can minimize to the tray.

  https://xyne.dev/projects/pystopwatch/ || pystopwatchAUR

- snore — A program like sleep, but with feedback.

  https://github.com/clamiax/snore || snore-gitAUR

- termdown — Countdown timer and stopwatch in your terminal.

  https://github.com/trehn/termdown || termdown

##### Break timers

- 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/BreakTimer || gnome-break-timer

- RSI Break — Takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI).

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

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

  https://slgobinath.github.io/SafeEyes/ || safeeyesAUR

- Workrave — Program that assists in the recovery and prevention of RSI on Xorg.

  https://workrave.org/ || workrave

##### Pomodoro timers

See Wikipedia:Pomodoro Technique for an introduction.

- flow — Pomodoro app that blocks distractions while you work.

  https://github.com/iamsergio/flow-pomodoro || flow-pomodoroAUR

- Gnomato — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

  https://github.com/diegorubin/gnomato || gnomatoAUR

- GNOME Pomodoro — Time management utility for GNOME based on the Pomodoro Technique.

  https://gnomepomodoro.org/ || gnome-shell-pomodoroAUR

- Pilorama — Eye-candy timeboxing tool written in QML

  https://github.com/eplatonoff/pilorama || pilorama-gitAUR

- Pomodoro-Logger — Pomodoro timer and logger with Kanban board for task management and tracking.

  https://github.com/zxch3n/PomodoroLogger || pomodoro-loggerAUR

- Solanum — A pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/solanum || solanumAUR

- Tomate — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

  https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate-gtk || tomate-gtkAUR

- Tomato — Simple, usable and efficient pomodoro app designed for elementaryOS.

  https://github.com/luizaugustomm/tomato || tomato-gitAUR

- Tomighty — Desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

  https://tomighty.github.io || tomightyAUR

#### Time trackers

- ActivityWatch — A self/local-hosted, cross-platform, client-server, privacy-focused active window tracker.

  https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch || activitywatch-binAUR

- 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

- Kapow — Punch clock to track time spent on projects.

  https://gottcode.org/kapow/ || kapowAUR

- KTimeTracker — Todo management and time tracking application.

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

- Tider — Lightweight time tracking application (GTK)

  https://github.com/naspeh/tider || tider-gitAUR

- Timenaut — Time tracker that tracks active windows and lets you sort them into categories. Based on the Electron platform.

  https://timenaut.app/ || timenaut-appimageAUR

- Timewarrior — A command-line time-tracking application.

  https://timewarrior.net/ || timew

- Timetrack — Simple time-tracking app for GNOME.

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/danigm/timetrack || timetrackAUR

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

  https://wakatime.com/ || wakatime

#### Task management

##### Console

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

  https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook || taskbookAUR

- Taskell — A command-line kanban board/task manager.

  https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell || taskell

- Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.

  https://taskwarrior.org/ || task

- todoman — Command-line To-do list manager (supports CalDAV)

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

- Todo.txt — Small command-line To-do manager.

  https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli/ || todotxtAUR

- TuDu — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.

  https://code.meskio.net/tudu/ || tuduAUR

- dijo — Scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker

  https://github.com/nerdypepper/dijo || dijoAUR

##### Graphical

- Agenda — Simple, fast, no-nonsense to-do (task) list for elementary OS.

  https://github.com/dahenson/agenda || agenda-gitAUR

- Effitask — Graphical task manager, based on the Todo.txt format.

  https://github.com/sanpii/effitask || effitaskAUR

- Getting Things GNOME! — Personal tasks and TODO list items organizer for GNOME inspired by the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.

  https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg || gtgAUR

- Go For It! — Simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task. To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format.

  http://manuel-kehl.de/projects/go-for-it/[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ] || go-for-it-gitAUR

- Endeavour — Personal task manager for GNOME. Part of gnome-extra.

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

- Nextcloud Tasks — Tasks app for Nextcloud.

  https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks || nextcloud-app-tasks

- Planner — Task manager with Todoist support.

  https://useplanner.com/ || planifyAUR

- ptask — GTK task manager based on Taskwarrior.

  https://wpitchoune.net/ptask/ || ptaskAUR

- QTodoTxt — UI client for todo.txt files.

  https://github.com/mNantern/QTodoTxt || qtodotxtAUR

- sleek — todo.txt app with modern GUI. Based on the Electron platform.

  https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/ || sleekAUR

- Task Coach — Simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists.

  https://www.taskcoach.org || taskcoachAUR

- TickTick — Is a simple and effective to-do list and task manager app with seamless cloud synchronization across all your devices

  https://ticktick.com/ || ticktickAUR

- Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C#.

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/Tasque || tasqueAUR

- Zanshin — To-do management application for KDE.

  https://zanshin.kde.org/ || zanshin

#### Contacts management

##### Console

- Abook — Text-based contacts manager designed for use with mutt.

  http://abook.sourceforge.net/ || abookAUR

- Khard — Command-line addressbook that is able to sync with CardDAV-servers.

  https://github.com/scheibler/khard || khard

##### 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

- GNOME Contacts — Contacts manager for GNOME. Part of gnome.

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Contacts || gnome-contacts

- KAddressBook — Address book manager for KDE.

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

- LDAP Administration Tool — Browse LDAP-based directories and add/edit/delete entries contained within.

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/ldap-at/ || latAUR

- 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.

  https://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ || phpldapadmin

- 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

- Beancount — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

  https://beancount.github.io/ || beancountAUR

- esniper — Simple, lightweight tool for sniping eBay auctions.

  http://esniper.sourceforge.net/ || esniperAUR

- hledger — An accounting program for tracking money, time, or any other commodity, using double-entry accounting and a simple, editable file format. hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with ledger.

  https://hledger.org/ || hledger

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

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

##### Graphical

- Eqonomize! — Cross-platform personal accounting software, with focus on efficiency and ease of use for the small household economy.

  https://eqonomize.github.io/ || eqonomizeAUR

- ERPNext — Free and open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

  https://github.com/frappe/erpnext || erpnextAUR

- GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.

  https://www.gnucash.org/ || gnucash

- Grisbi — Personal finance system which manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations.

  https://www.grisbi.org/ || grisbiAUR

- 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.

  https://kmymoney.org/ || kmymoney

- Kresus — Self-hosted personal finance management software. It automatically retrieves every day all your new bank transactions and lets you categorize them, study them through charts and establish a budget.

  https://kresus.org/en/ || kresus

- Manager — Proprietary accounting software for small business.

  https://www.manager.io/ || manager-accountingAUR

- Money Manager EX — An easy-to-use personal finance suite

  https://www.moneymanagerex.org/ || moneymanagerexAUR

- Odoo — Open source ERP system purely in Python. Previously known as OpenERP.

  https://www.odoo.com/ || odooAUR

- Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.

  https://skrooge.org/ || skrooge

#### Cryptocurrency

- ARK Desktop Wallet — Wallet for ARK.

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

- Atomic Wallet — Manage your Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin, XLM, and over 300 other coins and tokens.

  https://atomicwallet.io/ || atomicwalletAUR

- Bitcoin Core — Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.

  https://bitcoincore.org/ || bitcoin-qt

- Coinomi — Securely store, manage and exchange Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 1,770 other blockchain assets.

  https://www.coinomi.com/ || coinomi-wallet-binAUR

- Cointop — Terminal based application for tracking cryptocurrencies.

  https://cointop.sh/ || cointopAUR

- Electrum — Lightweight Bitcoin client.

  https://electrum.org/ || electrum

- Etherwall — Ethereum wallet.

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

- Exodus — All-in-one proprietary application to secure, manage, and exchange blockchain assets. Based on the Electron platform.

  https://www.exodus.io/ || exodusAUR

- Mist — Ethereum Dapp browser.

  https://github.com/ethereum/mist || mistAUR

- Monero — Monero wallet.

  https://getmonero.org/ || monero-gui, monero

- Dogecoin Core — Dogecoin Core wallet, Allows you to connect to the Dogecoin P2P Network.

  https://dogecoin.com/ || dogecoin-qtAUR, multidogeAUR

#### 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

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

  https://www.ganttproject.biz/ || ganttprojectAUR

- Notion-app — A note-taking software and project management software that is used for note-taking, task management, project management, knowledge management, and personal knowledge management.

  https://www.notion.so/ || notion-appAUR

- Planner — Project management application for GNOME.

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner || plannerAUR

- ProjectLibre — Project management software alternative to Microsoft Project.

  https://www.projectlibre.com/product/projectlibre-open-source || projectlibreAUR

- TaskJuggler — Modern and powerful project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools.

  https://taskjuggler.org/ || taskjugglerAUR

#### Recipe management

- GNOME Recipes — Recipe management application for GNOME. Part of gnome-extra.

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes || gnome-recipes

- Gourmand — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.

  https://github.com/GourmandRecipeManager/gourmand || gourmandAUR

- KRecipes — KDE application designed to make organizing your personal recipes collection fast and easy.

  https://apps.kde.org/krecipes/ || krecipesAUR

### Education

See also List of games#Education.

- Moodle — Open-source software learning management system.

  https://moodle.org/ || moodleAUR

- OpenBoard — Interactive whiteboard software for schools and universities.

  https://openboard.ch/index.en.html || openboardAUR

#### Flashcards

See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software.

- Anki — Intelligent spaced-repetition memory training program.

  https://apps.ankiweb.net/ || ankiAUR

- jVLT — Vocabulary learning tool.

  https://www.linuxlinks.com/jVLT/ || jvltAUR

- KWordQuiz — Tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. Part of kde-education.

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

- Mnemosyne — Flash-card tool which optimizes your learning process.

  https://mnemosyne-proj.org/ || mnemosyneAUR

- Parley — Program to help you memorize things. It uses the spaced repetition learning method, also known as flash cards. Part of kde-education.

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

- Pauker — Flash card based learning tool using shortterm and longterm memory training.

  http://pauker.sourceforge.net/ || paukerAUR

- OpenTeacher — Open source application that helps you learn a variety of subjects

  http://openteacher.org/en/ || openteacherAUR

- StudyFlash — Learn flashcards inside your terminal

  https://github.com/Alone2/studyFlash || studyflashAUR

#### Touch typing

##### Console

- Dvorak 7min — Simple ncurses-based typing tutor for those trying to become fluent with the Dvorak keyboard layout.

  https://github.com/yaychris/dvorak7min || dvorak7minAUR

- GNU Typist — Universal typing tutor.

  https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ || gtypistAUR

- psani-profi — Program that will teach you touchtyping (Czech).

  https://www.sallyx.org/sally/psani-vsemi-deseti/ || psani-profiAUR

- Typing Trainer — ncurses-based typing trainer program that knows the English and Hungarian languages.

  http://tpgt.sourceforge.net/ || tpgtAUR

- Typespeed — Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS.

  http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/ || typespeedAUR

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

  https://github.com/budlabs/typiskt || typisktAUR

##### Graphical

- Amphetype — Layout-agnostic typing program aimed at people who do not need an on-screen keyboard, but would still like to improve their speed and accuracy.

  https://code.google.com/p/amphetype/ || amphetype-svnAUR

- Klavaro — Teaching touch typing that intends to be keyboard and language independent.

  https://klavaro.sourceforge.io/ || klavaro

- KTouch — Program to learn and practice touch typing. Part of kde-education.

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

- TIPP10 — Intelligent touch typing tutor.

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

- TypingTest — Typing test desktop program with a large amount of customization.

  https://github.com/laelath/typingtest || typingtest-gitAUR

### 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.

- Ekho — Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) software for Cantonese, Mandarin, Zhaoan Hakka, Tibetan, Ngangien and Korean.

  https://eguidedog.net/ekho.php || ekhoAUR

- eSpeak — Compact speech synthesizer for more than 50 languages.

  https://espeak.sourceforge.net/ || espeakAUR

- 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.

  https://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/gespeaker/english/ || gespeakerAUR

- KMouth — Speech synthesizer frontend which enables persons that cannot speak to let their computer speak.

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

- MaryTTS — Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis platform written in Java.

  http://mary.dfki.de/ || maryttsAUR

- MBROLA — Proprietary phonemes-to-audio program which supports more than 70 languages. Mbrola-voices can also be used with eSpeak.

  http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html || mbrolaAUR

- Mimic — Text-to-speech voice synthesis from the Mycroft project (based on Flite).

  https://mimic.mycroft.ai/ || mimicAUR

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

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-jtalk/ || open-jtalkAUR

- Orca — Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, using eSpeak (via Speech Dispatcher). Part of gnome.

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca || orca

- RHVoice — Cross-platform (including Android) text-to-speech from a blind Russian-speaking developer, based on HTS (ru, ka, uk, ky, tt, en, pt, eo)

  https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice || rhvoice

- SOPS — Provides a simple way to write custom plugins for screen reader Orca.

  https://github.com/chrys87/simple-orca-plugin-system || simpleorcapluginsystemAUR

- 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

- SVOX Pico — The text-to-speech engine used on Android phones. (en-US, en-GB, de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR, it-IT)

  https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/svox/+/master || svox-pico-binAUR

#### Speech recognition

See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.

- Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.

  https://github.com/julius-speech/julius || juliusAUR

- Kaldi — Speech recognition toolkit.

  https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi || kaldiAUR

- Kalliope — Modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.

  https://kalliope-project.github.io/ || kalliopeAUR

- Kaylee — Somewhat fancy voice command recognition program that performs actions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences.

  https://github.com/Ratfink/kaylee || kayleevcAUR

- Mycroft — Hackable voice assistant.

  https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core || mycroft-coreAUR

- Numen — Voice control for handsfree computing

  https://sr.ht/~geb/numen/ || numenAUR

- Simon — Speech recognition program that can replace your mouse and keyboard.

  https://simon.kde.org/ || simon-kf5-gitAUR

- nerd-dictation — Light weight manually activated dictation using the VOSK-API

  https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation || nerd-dictation-gitAUR

#### Screen magnifiers

- KMag — Small KDE utility to magnify a part of the screen.

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

- Magnus — Very simple desktop magnifier, showing the area around the mouse pointer in a separate window magnified two, three, four, or five times.

  https://kryogenix.org/code/magnus/ || magnusAUR

- Virtual Magnifying Glass — Simple, customizable and easy-to-use screen magnification tool.

  https://magnifier.sourceforge.net/ || vmgAUR

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

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

#### On-screen annotation

- Gromit-MPX — Tool to make annotations on the screen.

  https://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx || gromit-mpxAUR

- Pylote — Tool to draw on the screen.

  http://pascal.peter.free.fr/pylote-en.html || pylote-gitAUR

- Screenkey — Tool to display pressed keys.

  https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/ || screenkey

- Show Me The Key — A screenkey alternative that works under Wayland via libinput

  https://showmethekey.alynx.one || showmethekeyAUR

#### Mouse

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

  https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki || easystrokeAUR

- 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://apps.kde.org/kmousetool/ || kmousetool

- Mousetweaks — Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices.

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mousetweaks || mousetweaks

### Display managers

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

### Desktop environments

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

#### Window managers

##### 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/ || twinAUR

- Wmutils — A set of tools for X windows manipulation.

  https://github.com/wmutils/core || wmutils-gitAUR

##### 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-gitAUR

- wumwum — The Window Manager manager. It can turn emwh compliant window managers into a tiling window manager while retaining all initial functionalities.

  http://wumwum.sourceforge.net/ || wumwumAUR

#### Taskbars

See also Wikipedia:Taskbar.

- Bmpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant panel.

  https://github.com/nsf/bmpanel2 || bmpanel2AUR

- Cairo-Dock — Highly customizable dock and launcher application.

  https://www.glx-dock.org/ || cairo-dock

- CoreAction — Side bar with some handy gadgets like system loads, calendar, calculator, notes etc. Part of C-Suite.

  https://gitlab.com/cubocore || coreactionAUR

- 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

- eww — Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.

  https://github.com/elkowar/eww || eww-x11AUR, eww-waylandAUR

- fbpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel.

  https://aanatoly.github.io/fbpanel/ || fbpanelAUR

- GNOME Panel — Panel included in the GNOME Flashback desktop.

  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://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock || latte-dock

- Lemonbar — A featherweight bar based on XCB. Provides UTF-8 support, background and foreground colors, text alignment, and not much more.

  https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar || lemonbar-gitAUR

- LXPanel — Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.

  https://lxde.org/ || lxpanel

- MATE Panel — Panel included in the MATE desktop.

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

- nwg-dock — GTK-based dock designed for the Sway window manager.

  https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-dock || nwg-dockAUR

- nwg-panel — GTK-based panel designed for the Sway window manager.

  https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-panel || nwg-panelAUR

- PerlPanel — The ideal accompaniment to a light-weight Window Manager such as OpenBox, or a desktop-drawing program like iDesk.

  https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/perlpanel || perlpanel-gitAUR

- Plank — Elegant, simple, clean dock from pantheon desktop environment.

  https://launchpad.net/plank || plank

- Polybar — a fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.

  https://github.com/jaagr/polybar || polybar

- Tint2 — Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.

  https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2 || tint2

- Vala Panel — Gtk3 panel for compositing window managers

  https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel || vala-panel-gitAUR

- Xfce Panel — Panel included in the Xfce desktop.

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

- xmobar — A lightweight, text-based, status bar written in Haskell.

  https://archives.haskell.org/projects.haskell.org/xmobar/ || xmobar

- Waybar — A customizable taskbar for Wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

  https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/ || waybar

- yambar — A modular and lightweight status panel for X11 and Wayland that goes to great lengths to be both CPU and battery efficient.

  https://codeberg.org/dnkl/yambar || yambarAUR

#### System tray

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

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

- Docker — Docking application which acts as a system tray.

  https://icculus.org/openbox/2/docker/ || docker-trayAUR

- KDocker — Dock any application in the system tray (notification area).

  https://github.com/user-none/KDocker || kdockerAUR

- 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://github.com/sargon/trayer-srg/ || trayer

#### Application launchers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.

- Albert — Sophisticated, plugin based standalone keyboard launcher.

  https://albertlauncher.github.io/ || albertAUR

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

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

- Bashrun2 — Provides a different, barebones approach to a run dialog, using a specialized Bash session within a small xterm window.

  http://henning-bekel.de/bashrun2/ || bashrun2AUR

- bemenu — Lightweight dynamic menu inspired by dmenu. Works natively on Wayland.

  https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu || bemenu

- dmenu — Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.

  https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ || dmenu

- dmenu-extended — Extension to dmenu for quickly opening files and folders.

  https://github.com/markjones112358/dmenu-extended || dmenu-extended-gitAUR

- dmenu2 — Unmaintained fork of dmenu with many useful patches applied and additional options like screen select, dim or opacity change.

  https://github.com/spcmd/dmenu2 || dmenu2AUR

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

  https://github.com/Antithesisx/dswitcher || dswitcher-gitAUR

- 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.

  https://do.cooperteam.net/ || gnome-doAUR

- 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

- higgins — Desktop agnostic application launcher, file finder, calculator and more. Plugin based and freely and easily extendable via user-written plugins

  https://github.com/kokoko3k/higgins || higgins-gitAUR

- j4-dmenu-desktop — Very fast dmenu application launcher.

  https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop || j4-dmenu-desktop

- jgmenu — Simple, independent, contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking.

  https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu || jgmenu

- 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

- launch — Simple command for launching applications from a terminal emulator.

  https://github.com/silverhammermba/launch || launch-cmdAUR

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

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

- Lighthouse — Simple scriptable popup dialog to run on X.

  https://github.com/emgram769/lighthouse || lighthouse-gitAUR

- nwg-drawer — GTK-based application drawer designed for the Sway compositor.

  https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-drawer || nwg-drawerAUR

- nwg-menu — GTK-based application menu designed for the Sway compositor.

  https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-menu || nwg-menuAUR

- rofi — Popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and pango.

  https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/ || rofi

- rlaunch — An extremely fast and light-weight dmenu-like application launcher written in Rust

  https://github.com/PonasKovas/rlaunch || rlaunchAUR

- 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

- Ulauncher — Modern and shiny launcher that provides fuzzy search, extensions, and themes

  https://ulauncher.io/ || ulauncherAUR

- vonal — Modern customizable global menu with unlimiting plugin system written in Rust

  https://github.com/fxdave/vonal-rust || vonal-binAUR

- wofi — GTK-based popup window switcher for Wayland compositors such as sway. Inspired by rofi.

  https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi || wofi

- yofi — Minimalistic menu for Wayland-based compositors.

  https://github.com/l4l/yofi || yofiAUR

- tofi — Tiny dynamic menu, fast and simple dmenu/rofi replacement for Wayland compositors such as sway.

  https://github.com/philj56/tofi || tofiAUR

#### Application menu editors

- Alacarte — Add or remove applications from the main menu.

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/alacarte || alacarte

- AppEditor — Edit application entries in the application menu.

  https://github.com/donadigo/appeditor || appeditor-gitAUR

- Ezame — Desktop and menu file editor.

  https://github.com/linux-man/ezame || ezameAUR

- KMenuEdit — Edit one of the KDE application launchers.

  https://kde.org/ || kmenuedit

- lxmed — Application menu editor written in Java.

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxmed/ || lxmedAUR

- MenuLibre — Advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface.

  https://launchpad.net/menulibre || menulibreAUR

- Meow — Application menu editor written in Java.

  https://pnmougel.github.io/meow/ || meow-binAUR

- Mozo — Change which applications are shown on the main menu.

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

#### 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-gitAUR

- esetroot — Eterm's root background setter, packaged separately.

  http://www.eterm.org/ || esetrootAUR

- feh — A lightweight and powerful image viewer that can also be used to manage the desktop wallpaper.

  https://feh.finalrewind.org/ || feh‎

- Fondo — Find a variety of the most beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.com.

  https://github.com/calo001/fondo || fondoAUR

- habak — A background changing app.

  https://fvwm-crystal.sourceforge.io/ || habakAUR

- Hanabi — Live Wallpaper for GNOME.

  https://github.com/jeffshee/gnome-ext-hanabi || gnome-shell-extension-hanabi-gitAUR

- Hidamari — Video wallpaper for Linux. Written in Python.

  https://github.com/jeffshee/hidamari || hidamariAUR

- hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.

  https://packages.debian.org/sid/hsetroot || hsetroot

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

  https://gabmus.gitlab.io/HydraPaper/ || hydrapaper-gitAUR

- Hyprpaper — Hyprpaper is a blazing fast wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls.

  https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper || hyprpaper-gitAUR

- LiveWallpaper — Animated 3D wallpapers.

  https://launchpad.net/livewallpaper || livewallpaper

- mpvpaper — A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.

  https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper || mpvpaperAUR

- Nitrogen — A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.

  https://github.com/l3ib/nitrogen || nitrogen

- oguri — An animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors.

  https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri || oguri-gitAUR

- pacwall — A live wallpaper that shows the dependency graph and status of installed packages.

  https://github.com/Kharacternyk/pacwall || pacwall-gitAUR

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

  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88997 || pybgsetterAUR

- pywal — Changes the wallpaper and creates matching colorschemes for various applications (rofi, i3, terminals)

  https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal || python-pywal

- swaybg — Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors.

  https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg || swaybg

- swww — Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for wayland, controlled at runtime.

  https://github.com/Horus645/swww || swwwAUR

- Variety — Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.

  https://peterlevi.com/variety/ || variety

- xli — An image display program for X.

  https://packages.debian.org/sid/xli || xliAUR

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

  http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/sw/xlivebg/ || xlivebgAUR

- xwallpaper — Minimalistic wallpaper setting utility for X.

  https://github.com/stoeckmann/xwallpaper || xwallpaper

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`.

#### 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[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || bbpager

- fbpager — Virtual desktop pager for fluxbox.

  http://www.fluxbox.org/fbpager || fbpager-gitAUR

- IPager — A configurable pager with transparency, originally developed for Fluxbox.

  http://useperl.ru/ipager/index.en.html || ipagerAUR

- Netwmpager — A NetWM/EWMH compatible pager.

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

#### Desktop widgets

- gDesklets — System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop.

  https://launchpad.net/gdesklets || gdeskletsAUR

- KRuler — Displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Part of kde-graphics.

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

#### Desktop notifications

See: Notification servers.

#### Clipboard managers

See Clipboard#Managers.

#### Logout UI

- clearine — Beautiful Logout UI for X11 window manager

  https://github.com/okitavera/clearine || clearine-gitAUR

- nwg-bar — Configurable button bar for wlroots-based compositors.

  https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-bar || nwg-barAUR

- oblogout — Openbox logout script

  https://launchpad.net/oblogout || oblogoutAUR

- wlogout — Logout menu for wayland

  https://github.com/ArtsyMacaw/wlogout || wlogoutAUR

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