List of applications/Other
Others
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.
- Kontact — Integrated solution to your personal information management.
- Osmo — GTK personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.
- SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups with Lightning — Extension to SeaMonkey that provides calendar and task support.
- Thunderbird with Lightning — Extension to Mozilla Thunderbird that provides calendar and task support.
Console
- Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)
- ccal — A console program which writes a calendar together with Chinese calendar to standard output.
- khal — Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)
- mail2rem — Small script for importing .ics calendars from Maildir to Remind calendar.
- Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.
Graphical
- Day Planner — Program designed to help you easily plan and manage your time. It can manage appointments, birthdays and more.
- etmtk (Event and Task Manager) — Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.
- Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app for Nextcloud.
Countdown timers and stopwatch
- GNOME Clocks — Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality.
Break timers
- GNOME Break Timer — Keeps track of how much you are using the computer, and it reminds you to take regular breaks.
Pomodoro timers
See Wikipedia:Pomodoro Technique for an introduction.
- Solanum — A pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop
Time trackers
- 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.
- Timetrack — Simple time-tracking app for GNOME.
Console
- Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.
Graphical
- GNOME To Do — Personal task manager for GNOME.
- Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C#.
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.
Financial management
Graphical
- HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
- Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.
Recipe management
- Gourmand — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.
Flashcards
See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software.
- KWordQuiz — Tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. Part of kde-education.
- StudyFlash — Learn flashcards inside your terminal
Console
- typiskt — touchtype training in the terminal (Bash).
Graphical
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.
- eSpeak NG — Fork of eSpeak (due to inactivity of original maintainer).
- MaryTTS — Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis platform written in Java.
- http://mary.dfki.de/ || maryttsAUR
- 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)
Speech recognition
See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.
- Kalliope — Modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.
Screen magnifiers
- Virtual Magnifying Glass — Simple, customizable and easy-to-use screen magnification tool.
On-screen annotation
Mouse
- 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.
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
Taskbars
See also Wikipedia:Taskbar.
- Bmpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant panel.
- Lemonbar — A featherweight bar based on XCB. Provides UTF-8 support, background and foreground colors, text alignment, and not much more.
- xmobar — A lightweight, text-based, status bar written in Haskell.
System tray
- KDocker — Dock any application in the system tray (notification area).
Application launchers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.
- dmenu2 — Unmaintained fork of dmenu with many useful patches applied and additional options like screen select, dim or opacity change.
- Gnome-Pie — Circular application launcher (pie menu) for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices.
- launch — Simple command for launching applications from a terminal emulator.
- 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.
- or yofi-gitAUR
Application menu editors
- Mozo — Change which applications are shown on the main menu.
Wallpaper setters
See also Wikipedia:Wallpaper (computing).
- hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.
- pacwall — A live wallpaper that shows the dependency graph and status of installed packages.
display utility from imagemagick or gm display from graphicsmagick. E.g.: display -backdrop -background '#3f3f3f' -flatten -window root image.Desktop widgets
Desktop notifications
See: Notification servers.
Clipboard managers
See Clipboard#Managers.
Logout UI
- nwg-bar — Configurable button bar for wlroots-based compositors.