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/ || seamonkey

• 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/ || 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.

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.

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.

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

• DevTodo — Small command line application for maintaining lists of tasks.

https://swapoff.org/devtodo1.html || devtodoAUR

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

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

• 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

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/ || go-for-it-gitAUR

• Endeavour — Personal task manager for GNOME.

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://planner-todo.web.app/ || elementary-plannerAUR

• 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

• 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.

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.

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/ || typespeed

• 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).

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/ || simonAUR

• 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/ || twin

• 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://cubocore.org/ || 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-panelAUR

• 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 || ewwAUR

• 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://github.com/manuelschneid3r/albert || 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

• Fehlstart — Small GTK-based application launcher.

https://gitlab.com/fehlstart/fehlstart || fehlstart-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

• 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 || yofi-binAUR

• 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

• 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.

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

Text art

See ASCII art#Software.