Utilities

Terminal

Command shells

See the main article: Command-line shell.

Terminal emulators

Terminal emulators show a GUI Window that contains a terminal. Most emulate Xterm, which in turn emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter. For further background information, see Wikipedia:Terminal emulator.

For a comprehensive list, see Wikipedia:List of terminal emulators.

Alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty || alacritty

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

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

cool-retro-term — A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term || cool-retro-term

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

https://cubocore.org/ || coreterminalAUR

CuteCom — A graphical serial terminal.

https://gitlab.com/cutecom/cutecom || cutecomAUR

Deepin Terminal — Terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.

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

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

https://github.com/mej/Eterm || etermAUR

foot — Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with sixel support

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

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

https://github.com/zeit/hyper || hyperAUR

Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.

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

kitty — A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty || kitty

Liri Terminal — Material Design terminal for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/terminal || liri-terminal

mlterm — A multi-lingual terminal emulator supporting various character sets and encodings in the world.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlterm/ || mltermAUR

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

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

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

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

QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.

https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal || qterminal

rxvt — Popular replacement for xterm.

http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ || rxvtAUR

shellinabox — A web-based SSH Terminal

https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox || shellinabox-gitAUR

st — Simple terminal implementation for X.

https://st.suckless.org || stAUR

Station — Terminal emulation features different view modes such as split vertically and horizontally, a tabbed interface, and copy and paste commands.

https://mauikit.org/ || maui-station

Terminology — Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology || terminology

urxvt — Highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, a Quake style drop-down mode and pseudo-transparency.

http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html || rxvt-unicode

wayst — Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11 with OpenGL rendering and minimal dependencies.

https://github.com/91861/wayst || wayst-gitAUR

xterm — Simple terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly.

https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ || xterm

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

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

zutty — A high-end terminal for low-end systems.

https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/ || zutty

VTE-based

VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) is a widget developed during early GNOME days for use in the GNOME Terminal. It has since given birth to many terminals with similar capabilities.

Deepin Terminal (GTK version) — Old terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-terminal-gtk || deepin-terminal-gtk

EasySSH — SSH Connection Manager.

https://github.com/muriloventuroso/easyssh || easysshAUR

Germinal — Minimalist terminal emulator which provides a borderless maximized terminal, attached to a tmux session by default, hence providing tabs and panels.

https://www.imagination-land.org/tags/germinal.html || germinalAUR

Gnome Console — Formerly known as King’s Cross, a simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.

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

GNOME Terminal — A terminal emulator included in the GNOME desktop with support for Unicode.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal || gnome-terminal

Guake — Drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop.

http://guake-project.org/ || guake

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

https://github.com/orhun/kermit || kermitAUR

LXTerminal — Desktop independent terminal emulator for LXDE.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || lxterminal

MATE terminal — A fork of Wikipedia:GNOME terminal for the MATE desktop.

https://www.mate-desktop.org/ || mate-terminal

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

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

ROXTerm — Tabbed terminal emulator with a small footprint.

https://roxterm.sourceforge.net/ || roxtermAUR

sakura — Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE.

https://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura || sakuraAUR

Terminator — Terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panels.

https://gnome-terminator.org/ || terminator

Termite — Keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support. Unmaintained - the developers recommend switching to Alacritty.

https://github.com/thestinger/termite || termiteAUR

Termit — Simple VTE-based terminal emulator with Lua scripting support

https://github.com/nonstop/termit || termit-gitAUR

Tilda — Configurable drop down terminal emulator.

https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/ || tilda

Tilix — Tiling terminal emulator for GNOME.

https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ || tilix

Xfce Terminal — Terminal emulator included in the Xfce desktop with support for a colorized prompt and a tabbed interface.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start || xfce4-terminal

KMS-based

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

KMSCON — A KMS/DRM-based system console(getty) with an integrated terminal emulator for Linux operating systems.

https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon || kmscon

framebuffer-based

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

yaft — A simple terminal emulator for living without X, with UCS2 glyphs, wallpaper and 256color support.

https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft || yaftAUR

FbTerm — a fast FrameBuffer based TERMinal emulator for linux

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fbterm || fbtermAUR

Files

File managers

Console

Clex — File manager with full-screen user interface

http://www.clex.sk/ || clexAUR

CliFM — The command line file manager: full-featured, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.

https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm || clifmAUR

ded — directory editor, file manager similar to Emacs dired

https://invisible-island.net/ded/ded.html || dedAUR

Dired — Directory editor integrated with Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html || emacs

fff — A simple file manager written in Bash.

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

fm — A terminal based file manager.

https://github.com/knipferrc/fm || fm-gitAUR

joshuto — ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.

https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto || joshuto-gitAUR

Last File Manager — Powerful file manager written in Python 3 with a curses interface.

https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/ || lfmAUR

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

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

Midnight Commander — Console-based, dual-paneled file manager.

https://midnight-commander.org || mc

nffm — "Nothing Fancy File Manager", a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.

https://github.com/mariostg/nffm || nffm-gitAUR

nnn — Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.

https://github.com/jarun/nnn || nnn

Pilot — File manager that comes with the Alpine email client.

https://alpine.x10host.com/[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || alpine-gitAUR

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

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

sfm — simple file manager for unix-like systems.

https://github.com/afify/sfm || sfmAUR

TUIFI Manager — A cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component), meant to be used with a Uni-Curses project or as is.

https://github.com/GiorgosXou/TUIFIManager || tuifimanagerAUR

Vifm — Ncurses-based two-panel file manager with vi-like keybindings.

https://vifm.info || vifm

xplr — A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer.

https://xplr.dev || xplr

Graphical

Caja — The file manager for the MATE desktop.

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

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

https://cubocore.org/ || corefmAUR

Deepin File Manager — File manager developed for Deepin.

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

Dolphin — File manager included in the KDE desktop.

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

fm — Small, general purpose file manager built with GTK4.

https://github.com/euclio/fm ||

Gentoo — A lightweight file manager for GTK.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentoo/ || gentooAUR

GNOME Files — Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Files || nautilus

Index — File manager that lets you browse your system files and applications and preview your music, text, image and video files and share them with external applications.

https://apps.kde.org/index-fm/ || index-fm

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

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

Liri Files — The file manager for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/files || liri-files

Nemo — Nemo is the file manager of the Cinnamon desktop. A fork of Nautilus.

https://projects.linuxmint.com/cinnamon/ || nemo

Pantheon Files — File browser designed for elementary OS.

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

PathFinder — File browser that comes with the FOX toolkit.

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

PCManFM — Very fast and lightweight file manager which can also optionally manage the desktop icons and background.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || pcmanfm, pcmanfm-gtk3

PCManFM-Qt — Qt port of PCManFM file manager.

https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt || pcmanfm-qt

Peony — File manager for the UKUI desktop.

https://github.com/ukui/peony || peony

qtFM — Small, lightweight filemanager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt.

https://qtfm.eu/ || qtfmAUR

ROX Filer — Small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels.

https://rox.sourceforge.net/ || rox

Thunar — File manager that can be run as a daemon with excellent start up and directory load times.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start || thunar

Twin-panel

Note that some of these twin-panel file managers can also be set to have only one pane.

Double Commander — File manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

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

emelFM2 — File manager that implements the popular two-panel design.

https://emelfm2.net/ || emelfm2

GNOME Commander — A dual-paned file manager for the GNOME Desktop.

https://gcmd.github.io/ || gnome-commanderAUR

Krusader — Advanced twin panel (Midnight Commander style) file manager for the KDE desktop.

https://krusader.org/ || krusader

muCommander — A lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface written in Java.

https://www.mucommander.com/ || mucommanderAUR

SpaceFM — GTK multi-panel tabbed file manager.

https://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/ || spacefmAUR

Sunflower — Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins.

https://sunflower-fm.org/ || sunflowerAUR

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

https://github.com/trol73/mucommander || trolcommanderAUR

Tux Commander — Windowed file manager with two panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.

http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/description.php || tuxcmdAUR

Worker — Fast, lightweight and feature-rich file manager for the X Window System.

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/ || workerAUR

Xfe — Microsoft Explorer-like file manager for X (X File Explorer).

http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/ || xfeAUR

Trash management

See Trash management#Trash creation.

File synchronization and backup

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

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

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

Déjà Dup — Simple GTK backup program. It hides the complexity of doing backups the 'right way' (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the backend.

https://launchpad.net/deja-dup || deja-dup

DirSync Pro — Small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization.

https://dirsyncpro.org/ || dirsyncproAUR

Duplicati — Backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers.

https://www.duplicati.com/ || duplicati-canary-binAUR

duplicity — Simple command-line utility which allows encrypted compressed incremental backup to nearly any storage.

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

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

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

FreeFileSync — Folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.

https://www.freefilesync.org/ || freefilesyncAUR

git-annex — Manage files with git, without checking the file contents into git.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/ || git-annex

grsync — GTK+ GUI for rsync to synchronize folders, files and make backups

https://www.opbyte.it/grsync/ || grsync

hsync — Command line program to sync only those files that have been renamed/moved but otherwise unchanged. It works by issuing simple move operations at the destination without actually transferring the files, and is meant to be used in conjunction with other synchronization programs that lack this capability.

https://ambrevar.bitbucket.io/hsync/ || hsyncAUR

rclone — Command line program to sync files and directories to and from Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Yandex Disk and many other cloud storage services as well as between local paths.

https://rclone.org/ || rclone

restic — Fast, secure, efficient backup program that supports backing up to many cloud services.

https://restic.net/ || restic

rsync — File transfer program that uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand. Has multiple frontends available.

https://rsync.samba.org/ || rsync

SparkleShare — File sharing and collaboration application written in C#. It can sync with any Git server over SSH.

https://www.sparkleshare.org/ || sparkleshare

Syncthing — Continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in a simple way without advanced configuration.

https://syncthing.net/ || syncthing

Syncany — Cloud storage and filesharing application with a focus on security and abstraction of storage.

https://www.syncany.org/ || syncanyAUR

Synkron — Application that helps you keep your files and folders always updated. You can easily sync your documents, music or pictures to have their latest versions everywhere.

https://synkron.sourceforge.net/ || synkronAUR

Tarsnap — Secure, efficient proprietary online backup service.

https://www.tarsnap.com/ || tarsnap

Timeshift — A system restore tool for Linux.

https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift || timeshiftAUR

Unison — File synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ || unison

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

https://github.com/ynikitenko/yarsync || yarsyncAUR

Archiving and compression tools

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

Archive managers

360zip — A proprietary archiving tool.

https://yasuo.360.cn/ || 360zipAUR

Ark — Archiving tool included in the KDE desktop.

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

Arqiver — Simple Qt archive manager based on libarchive.

https://github.com/tsujan/Arqiver || arqiver-gitAUR

CoreArchiver — Simple file compressing/extracting utility based on Qt and libarchive-qt. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corearchiverAUR

Deepin Archive Manager — Fast and lightweight application for creating and extracting archives.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-compressor || deepin-compressor

Engrampa — Archive manager for MATE

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

GNOME Archive Manager — Archive manager included in the GNOME desktop (previously File Roller).

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller || file-roller

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

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

p7zip-gui — The GUI belonging to the p7zip software.

https://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ || p7zip-guiAUR

PeaZip — Open source file and archive manager.

https://peazip.github.io/peazip-linux.html || GTK: peazip-gtk2-binAUR, Qt: peazip-qt-binAUR

Xarchiver — Lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK.

https://github.com/ib/xarchiver || GTK 3: xarchiver, GTK 2: xarchiver-gtk2

Comparison, diff, merge

For managing pacnew/pacsave files, specialised tools exist. See Pacnew and Pacsave files#Managing .pac* files.

Console

See diff(1) from diffutils and its alternatives.

colordiff — A Perl script wrapper for 'diff' that produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting.

https://www.colordiff.org/ || colordiff

diff-highlight — Perl script to highlight changed parts within pairable lines of diff -u output

https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highlight || git

diffr — A Rust utility to pretty-print diff with highlighting at word-level for ease of review.

https://github.com/mookid/diffr || diffrAUR

ydiff — A Python wrapper to get highlighted diff output from stdin or VCS-tracked file/dirs, in either unfied or side-by-side view.

https://github.com/ymattw/ydiff || ydiffAUR

delta — A diff viewer written in Rust with syntax highlighting.

https://github.com/dandavison/delta || git-delta

diff-so-fancy — A diff output decorator. It does not calculate the diff, it only decorates it.

https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy || diff-so-fancy

difftastic — Compares files using their syntax trees

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

Graphical

DiffPDF — Compare the text or the visual appearance of each page in two PDF files.

https://gitlab.com/eang/diffpdf || diffpdf

Diffuse — Small and simple text merge tool written in Python.

https://diffuse.sourceforge.net/ || diffuse

KDiff3 — File and directory diff and merge tool for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/kdiff3/ || kdiff3

Kompare — GUI front-end program for viewing and merging differences between source files. It supports a variety of diff formats and provides many options to customize the information level displayed.

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

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

https://meldmerge.org/ || meld

xxdiff — A graphical browser for file and directory differences.

https://furius.ca/xxdiff/ || xxdiffAUR

Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and ediff.

Batch renamers

Console

See rename(1) from util-linux.

edir — Rename, delete, and copy files and directories using your editor (enhanced vidir).

https://github.com/bulletmark/edir || edirAUR

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

https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2 || f2AUR

nomino — A batch rename utility for developers.

https://github.com/yaa110/nomino || nominoAUR

rename.pl — Batch renamer based on perl regex.

https://search.cpan.org/~pederst/rename/ || perl-rename

vidir — Rename and delete files and directories using your editor.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/vidir || vidirAUR

Graphical

Caja-Rename — Batch renaming extension for Caja.

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

CoreRenamer — Simple lightweight batch file renamer application. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corerenamerAUR

GPRename — GTK batch renamer for files and directories.

http://gprename.sourceforge.net || gprename

KRename — Very powerful batch file renamer for the KDE desktop.

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

metamorphose2 — wxPython based batch renamer with support for regular expressions, renaming multimedia files according to their metadata, etc.

http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net || metamorphose2AUR

Thunar Bulk Rename — Change the name of multiple files at once using some criterion that applies to at least one of the files. Run with thunar -B.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/bulk-renamer/start || thunar

File searching

This section lists utilities for file searching based on filename, file path or metadata. For full-text searching, see the next section.

Console

See find(1) from findutils and its alternatives.

Graphical

Catfish — Versatile file searching tool by Xfce, can be powered by find, locate and Zeitgeist.

https://launchpad.net/catfish-search || catfish

CoreHunt — Easy to use fast file searching tool with categorized search and search history. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corehuntAUR

Czkawka — GTK file searching utility with advanced features, it can also find similar images and videos.

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka || czkawka-guiAUR

GNOME Search Tool — GNOME utility to search for files, depends on GNOME/Files.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-search-tool || gnome-search-toolAUR

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

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

MATE Search Tool — MATE utility to search for files.

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

regexxer — Interactive search and replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions.

http://regexxer.sourceforge.net/ || regexxer

Searchmonkey — Powerful GUI search utility for matching regex patterns.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/searchmonkey/ || searchmonkey-gtkAUR

File indexers

These programs index your files to allow for quick searching.

Basenji — Volume indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of CD/DVD and other type of volume collections.

https://github.com/pulb/basenji || basenjiAUR

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

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch || fsearch-gitAUR

angrysearch — Linux file search tool with instant results as you type.

https://github.com/DoTheEvo/ANGRYsearch || angrysearchAUR

Full-text searching

See grep(1) from grep and its alternatives, which provide non-indexed full-text search.

Full-text indexers

Baloo — KDE's file indexing and search solution, has a CLI and is used by KRunner.

https://community.kde.org/Baloo || baloo

DocFetcher — Graphical Java desktop search application.

https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net || docfetcherAUR

MeiliSearch — Lightning Fast, Ultra Relevant, and Typo-Tolerant Search Engine.

https://www.meilisearch.com/ || meilisearch

Namazu — A Full-Text Search Engine

http://www.namazu.org/ || namazu

Recoll — Full text search tool based on Xapian, has CLI and GUI.

https://lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ || recoll

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

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

Zeitgeist — Event aggregation framework for the user's activities and notifications (files opened, websites visited, conversations had, etc.), has several third-party front-ends.

https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-project || zeitgeist

Development

Code forges

GitLab — Project management and code hosting application.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss || gitlab

Gitea — Painless self-hosted Git service. Community managed fork of Gogs.

https://gitea.io || gitea

Onedev — A self-hosted Git server with CI/CD and Kanban

https://code.onedev.io/onedev/server || onedevAUR

Code forge clients

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

https://github.com/paulirish/git-open || git-openAUR

github-cli — GitHub's official command line tool

https://github.com/cli/cli || github-cli

hub — Command line interface for GitHub

https://hub.github.com || hub

lab — A hub-like tool for GitLab

https://zaquestion.github.io/lab/ || lab-binAUR

snippet — A terminal based interface to create a new GitLab snippet

https://gitlab.com/zj/snippet || snippetAUR

Version control systems

Bazaar — Distributed version control system that helps you track project history over time and to collaborate easily with others.

https://bazaar.canonical.com/ || bzrAUR

CVS — Concurrent Versions System, a client-server revision control system.

http://cvs.nongnu.org/ || cvs

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

http://darcs.net/ || darcs

Fossil — Distributed VCS with bug tracking, wiki, forum, and technotes.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/ || fossil

Git — Distributed revision control and source code management system with an emphasis on speed.

https://git-scm.com/ || git

Mercurial — Distributed version control system written in Python and similar in many ways to Git.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ || mercurial

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

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

Build automation

Apache Ant — Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.

https://ant.apache.org/ || ant

Apache Maven — Build automation tool used primarily for Java.

https://maven.apache.org/ || maven

Bazel — An open-source tool that allows for the automated building and testing of software.

https://bazel.build/ || bazel

CMake — Family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

https://cmake.org/ || cmake

GNU make — GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ || make (dependency of base-devel)

Meson — Extremely fast and user friendly build system.

https://mesonbuild.com/ || meson

Gradle — Powerful build system for the JVM.

https://gradle.org/ || gradle

Phing — PHP program designed to automate tasks of all kinds.

https://www.phing.info/ || phingAUR

Integrated development environments

For PHP specific list, see PHP#Development tools.

Android Studio — The official Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA.

https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html || android-studioAUR

Anjuta — Versatile IDE with project management, an application wizard, an interactive debugger, a source editor, version control support and many more tools.

http://anjuta.org/ || anjutaAUR

Aptana Studio — IDE based on Eclipse, but geared towards web development, with support for HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Adobe AIR and others.

http://www.aptana.com/ || aptana-studioAUR

Bluefish — Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. It supports many programming and markup languages.

https://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ || bluefish

Code::Blocks — C, C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.

https://codeblocks.org/ || codeblocks

CLion — A cross-platform IDE for C and C++.

https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/ || clionAUR

CodeLite — Open source and cross-platform C/C++/PHP and Node.js IDE written in C++ .

https://codelite.org/ || codeliteAUR

Eclipse — IDE for Java, C/C++, PHP, Perl and Python with subversion support and task management.

https://www.eclipse.org/ || Java EE: eclipse-jeeAUR, Java: eclipse-javaAUR, RCP: eclipse-rcpAUR, C/C++: eclipse-cppAUR, PHP: eclipse-phpAUR, JavaScript and Web: eclipse-dltk-javascriptAUR

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

https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || ericAUR

Gambas — IDE based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions.

https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html || gambas3-ide

Geany — Small and lightweight IDE with many supported many programming and markup languages including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal.

https://geany.org/ || geany

GNOME Builder — Tool to write and contribute to great GNOME-based applications.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder || gnome-builder

KDevelop — Feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.

https://www.kdevelop.org/ || kdevelop

Komodo Edit — A free, multi-language editor.

https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-edit/ || komodo-editAUR

Lazarus — Delphi (Object Pascal) compatible IDE for Rapid Application Development. It has variety of components ready for use and a graphical form designer to easily create complex graphical user interfaces.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ || lazarus

LiteIDE — Simple Go IDE.

https://github.com/visualfc/liteide || liteide

MPLAB — IDE for Microchip PIC and dsPIC development.

https://www.microchip.com/mplabx || microchip-mplabx-binAUR

Netbeans — IDE for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and other languages.

https://netbeans.org/ || netbeans

PhpStorm — JetBrains PhpStorm is a commercial, cross-platform IDE for PHP built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform, providing an editor for PHP, HTML and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis, error prevention and automated refactorings for PHP and JavaScript code.

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ || phpstormAUR, phpstorm-eapAUR

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

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

Theia — Eclipse Theia is a free and open-source IDE for desktop and web applications. It is implemented in TypeScript, is based on Visual Studio Code, and emphasizes extensibility. It can be run as a web or a desktop application.

https://theia-ide.org/ || theia-electronAUR

Visual Studio Code — Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform, free and open-source text editor developed by Microsoft, written in JavaScript and TypeScript. It supports a variety of languages thanks to its extensions.

https://code.visualstudio.com/ || code, visual-studio-code-binAUR

VSCodium — Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode.

https://vscodium.com/ || vscodiumAUR

ZeroBrane Studio — IDE with debugging support for Lua 5.1, Lua 5.2, Lua 5.3, LuaJIT, and other Lua engines.

https://studio.zerobrane.com/ || zerobrane-studioAUR

Java IDEs

BlueJ — Fully featured Java IDE used mainly for educational and beginner purposes.

https://bluej.org/ || bluejAUR

IntelliJ IDEA — IDE for Java, Groovy and other programming languages with advanced refactoring features.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ || intellij-idea-community-edition

Python IDEs

Ninja-IDE — IDE for Python development.

https://ninja-ide.org/ || ninja-ideAUR

PyCharm — Python IDE with support for code analysis, debugging, unit testing, version control and web development with Django.

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ || community edition: pycharm-community-edition, professional edition: pycharm-professionalAUR, edu edition: pycharm-eduAUR

Spyder — Scientific Python Development Environment providing MATLAB-like features.

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder || spyder

Thonny — Python IDE for beginners.

https://thonny.org/ || thonnyAUR

WingIDE — Proprietary Python development environment. It is fully featured and meant for professional use.

https://wingware.com/ || wingideAUR

Educational IDEs

KTurtle — Educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easily as possible. Part of kde-education.

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

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

https://processing.org/ || processingAUR

Scratch — Programming system and content development tool for educational and entertainment purposes, such as creating interactive projects and simple sprite-based games. It is used primarly by unskilled users (such as children) as an entry to event-driven programming.

https://scratch.mit.edu/ || scratch

Debuggers

Accerciser — Interactive Python accessibility explorer. It uses the AT-SPI library to inspect, examine, and interact with widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated testing frameworks.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Accerciser || accerciser

Bustle — Draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the duration of each method call.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Bustle/ || bustle-gitAUR

Data Display Debugger — Graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ || dddAUR

Desed — TUI-based debugger for sed. Features variable and regex preview, setting breakpoints and stepping back and forth.

https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed || desedAUR

D-Feet — Easy to use D-Bus debugger to inspect D-Bus interfaces of running programs and invoke methods on those interfaces.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DFeet || d-feet

GammaRay — Qt-application inspection and manipulation tool.

https://www.kdab.com/development-resources/qt-tools/gammaray/ || gammaray

GDBFrontend — Easy, flexible and extensible graphical debugger.

https://github.com/rohanrhu/gdb-frontend || gdb-frontend-binAUR

KCachegrind — Profile data visualization tool, used to determine the most time consuming execution parts of program.

https://apps.kde.org/kcachegrind/ || KDE: kcachegrind, Qt: qcachegrind

KDbg — Graphical user interface to GDB, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code.

https://www.kdbg.org/ || kdbg

Massif-Visualizer — Visualizer for Valgrind Massif data files.

https://apps.kde.org/massif-visualizer/ || massif-visualizer

Nemiver — Easy to use standalone C/C++ debugger (GDB front-end) that integrates well in the GNOME environment.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nemiver || nemiverAUR

Qt QDbusViewer — Tool to introspect D-Bus objects and messages.

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

scanmem — Debugging utility designed to isolate the address of an arbitrary variable in an executing process.

https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem || CLI: scanmem, GUI: gameconqueror

Sysprof — Profiling tool that helps in finding the functions in which a program uses most of its time.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Sysprof || sysprof

Lexing and parsing

Lex and Yacc are part of POSIX.

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

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

Berkeley Yacc — Berkeley reimplementation of the Unix parser generator Yacc.

https://invisible-island.net/byacc/ || byacc

GNU Bison — The GNU general-purpose parser generator, alternative to byacc.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/ || bison

And then there are also:

ANTLR — Parser generator, written in Java, for parsing structured text or binary files.

https://www.antlr.org/ || antlr4

LPeg — Pattern-matching library, based on PEGs, for Lua.

http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/ || lua-lpeg, lua52-lpeg, lua51-lpeg

peg/leg — Recursive-descent parser generators for C.

https://www.piumarta.com/software/peg/ || peg

Ragel — Compiles finite state machines from regular languages into executable C, C++, Objective-C, or D code.

https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ || ragel

GUI builders

FLUID — FLTK GUI designer.

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

Glade — Create or open user interface designs for GTK applications.

https://glade.gnome.org/ || glade

KUIViewer — Quick viewer for Qt Designer UI File.

https://apps.kde.org/kuiviewer/ || kde-dev-utils

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

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

Hex editors

Bless — High quality, full featured hex editor.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170503150524/http://home.gna.org/bless/ || bless

GHex — Hex editor for GNOME, which allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in either hex or ascii.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Ghex || ghex

hyx — A minimalistic (< 2300 lines of C) but powerful (hex/ASCII, insert/replace/delete, copy/paste, undo/redo, search, colors, vim-inspired controls) Linux terminal hex editor.

https://yx7.cc/code/ || hyxAUR

ImHex — A hex editor for reverse engineers, programmers, and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

https://imhex.werwolv.net/ || imhexAUR

Okteta — KDE hex editor for viewing and editing the raw data of files.

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

Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor — Hex editor with features for analyzing and annotating binary file formats

https://github.com/solemnwarning/rehex || rehexAUR

wxHexEditor — Hex editor for large files with advanced features such as raw memory and disk editing capabilities.

https://www.wxhexeditor.org/ || wxhexeditorAUR

JSON tools

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

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

jid — JSON incremental digger

https://github.com/simeji/jid || jidAUR

jo — A command to create JSON.

https://github.com/jpmens/jo || jo-gitAUR

jq — Command-line JSON processor

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

jshon — A JSON parser for the shell.

http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ || jshon

the Elvish shell has built-in support for JSON

Literate programming

Noweb — A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming build against ICON libs and texlive

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/ || nowebAUR

nuweb — A Simple Literate Programming Tool

http://nuweb.sourceforge.net/ || nuwebAUR

UML modelers

ArgoUML — UML modeling tool with support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams.

https://argouml-tigris-org.github.io/ || argoumlAUR

Eclipse Modeling Tools — Tools and runtimes for building model-based applications.

https://www.eclipse.org/ || eclipse-modeling-toolsAUR

Gaphor — Simple modeling tool for UML.

https://github.com/gaphor/gaphor || python-gaphorAUR

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

https://www.modelio.org/ || modelio-binAUR

Papyrus — Model-based engineering tool based on Eclipse.

https://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/ || papyrusAUR

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

https://plantuml.com || plantuml

PlantUML QEditor — PlantUML editor written in Qt.

https://github.com/borco/plantumlqeditor || plantumlqeditor-gitAUR

Umbrello — Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram program based on KDE Technology.

https://umbrello.kde.org/ || umbrello

UML Designer — Graphical tool based on Eclipse to edit and visualize UML models.

https://www.umldesigner.org/ || umldesignerAUR

UMLet — UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, build sequence and activity diagrams from plain text, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements.

https://umlet.com/ || umletAUR

UML/INTERLIS-editor — Facilitate the application of the model driven approach to a greater number of users.

http://www.umleditor.org/ || umleditorAUR

Violet — Very easy to learn and use UML editor that draws nice-looking diagrams.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/violet/ || violetumleditorAUR

API documentation browsers

Devhelp — Developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Devhelp || devhelp

Doc Browser — API documentation browser with support for DevDocs and Hoogle.

https://github.com/qwfy/doc-browser || doc-browser-gitAUR

Qt Assistant — Tool for viewing on-line documentation in Qt help file format.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtassistant-index.html || qt5-tools

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

https://github.com/mdh34/quickDocs || quickdocsAUR

Zeal — Offline API documentation browser for software developers.

https://zealdocs.org/ || zealAUR

Issue tracking systems

Bugzilla — Bug tracker from Mozilla.

https://www.bugzilla.org || bugzilla

Flyspray — Lightweight, web-based bug tracking system written in PHP

https://www.flyspray.org/ || flyspray

MantisBT — Web-based issue tracking system

https://www.mantisbt.org/ || mantisbtAUR

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

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

Trac — Trac Integrated SCM & Project Management using Apache & Subversion.

https://trac.edgewall.org/ || tracAUR

See also Git server#Advanced web applications.

Code review

Gerrit — A web-based code review tool built on top of the Git version control system

https://www.gerritcodereview.com/ || gerritAUR

GitLab also supports code reviews.

Game development

Allegro — A cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming.

https://liballeg.org/ || allegro

GDevelop — Game creator designed to be used by everyone - no programming skills required.

https://gdevelop-app.com/ || gdevelopAUR

Godot — Advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine. Create games with ease, using Godot's unique approach to game development.

https://godotengine.org/ || godot

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

https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite || librespriteAUR

LÖVE — Lua based game development environment.

https://love2d.org/ || love

Pixelorama — 2D sprite editor with animation support, made by Orama Interactive in the Godot Engine using GDScript.

https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama || pixelorama-binAUR

TIC-80 — Fantasy computer/console.

https://tic80.com/ || tic-80-gitAUR

Tiled — General purpose 2D level editor with powerful tile map editing features. It is built to be easy to use and is suitable for many type of games.

https://www.mapeditor.org/ || tiled

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

https://unity3d.com/unity || unityhubAUR

Repository managers

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Nexus 2 — Nexus 2 Repository Manager (OSS)

https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss || nexusAUR

Nexus 3 — Nexus 3 Repository OSS

https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss || nexus-ossAUR

Artifactory — Artifactory is an advanced Binary Repository Manager for use by build tools, dependency management tools and build servers

https://bintray.com/jfrog/product/JFrog-Artifactory-Oss/view || artifactory-ossAUR

Text input

Character selectors

emote — A modern emoji picker written in GTK3.

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote || emoteAUR

GNOME Characters — Character map application for GNOME.

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

gucharmap — GTK 3 character selector for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap || gucharmap

KCharSelect — Tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them into the clipboard. Part of kde-utilities.

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

On-screen keyboards

CellWriter — Grid-entry handwriting recognition input panel.

https://github.com/risujin/cellwriter || cellwriterAUR

CoreKeyboard — Simple X11 based Qt virtual keyboard with word suggestions. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corekeyboardAUR

eekboard — Easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit.

https://github.com/ueno/eekboard || eekboardAUR

Florence — Extensible scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when not needed.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/florence/ || florenceAUR

Maliit Keyboard — Virtual keyboard useful for KDE Plasma-Wayland

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

Onboard — Onscreen keyboard useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users.

https://launchpad.net/onboard || onboard

qtvkbd — Virtual keyboard written in Qt, a fork of kvkbd.

https://github.com/Alexander-r/qtvkbd || qtvkbdAUR

QVKbd — Virtual keyboard written in Qt.

https://github.com/KivApple/qvkbd || qvkbd

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

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard || squeekboardAUR

theShell On Screen Keyboard — Touchscreen keyboard for theShell.

https://github.com/vicr123/ts-kbd || ts-kbdAUR

xvkbd — Virtual keyboard for X window system.

http://t-sato.in.coocan.jp/xvkbd/ || xvkbdAUR

Keyboard layout switchers

fbxkb — A NETWM compliant keyboard indicator and switcher. It shows a flag of current keyboard in a systray area and allows you to switch to another one.

http://fbxkb.sourceforge.net/ || fbxkbAUR