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The joy of X - master the Linux GUI
If you're a Linux user you have no doubt heard of GNOME and KDE. These popular desktop environments are really the pinnacle of a deep iceberg of technology with the X-Windows graphical interface underpinning it all. Here are a couple of ways to tame X, kicking off a journey of unlimited ability to change the Linux look-and-feel.

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LilyPond
LilyPond is an "automated engraving system." It will format music notation beautifully without requiring typographical expertise of its users. It tries to mimic traditional plate engraving in the general impression, layout algorithms, and the font design.

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  • Katapult
    Katapult is a KDE application that provides you with faster and easier access to your applications, bookmarks, and more. It is plugin-based and can launch anything it has a plugin for. Read more hot
  • Hawkscope
    Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via a system tray icon with a dynamic popup menu. new
  • Who?
    Who? is a graphical interface for the Unix command "who". With color codes for user idle times and no need for configuration, it shows in realtime who logged into your machine and checks if each user is idle or not. new
  • a2psfrontend
    a frontend to the command-line tool a2ps. This tool converts text files into postcript (e.g. for saving or printing), giving tons of options about the layout
  • Aldona
    a Lithuanian keymap utility for the Window Maker dock
  • allbib
    creates, modifies, and checks files that are understood by BibTeX, and provides a graphical interface for all these operations
  • Apwal
    a simple and powerful application launcher. It is composed in 2 parts: the application launcher itself and a good looking easy to use editor
  • Arnic
    Arnic is an application launcher, in the style of Quicksilver. It's written in Python, so it's easy to add new items and actions. The plugins that come with the software are only for *nix, but there's nothing about the code that precludes plugins for Win32 or even OS X.
  • Baobab
    Baobab is a C/gtk+ application to analyse directory trees in any Gnome environment. Baobab can easily scan either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote). It also includes a complete file-search functionality and auto-detects in real-time any changes made to your home directory as far as any mounted/unmounted device.
  • bash menubuilder
    creates pretty bash pseudoGUIs which act as templates for shell scripts. It features a menu editor with preview which can save and load config files which can be translated with a shell script compiler to the final menu
  • bbcpufreq
    bbcpufreq is a slit application for the blackbox window manager acting as a gui-frontend for cpufreqd.
  • BBrun
    BBrun is a run utility for BlackBox which can be run in the slit or in withdrawn mode so that it can be bound to a keystroke from bbkeys.
  • BeeDiff
    BeeDiff is a graphical file comparator. It compares two text files and highlights differences in colors.
  • blahps
    blahps is a process viewer or task manager that aims to be useful in situations where other task managers are not. As an example, it keeps track of processes which have died so you can see them _after_ they are gone. It also has filtering.
  • Catfish
    Catfish is a handy file searching tool for linux and unix. Basically it is a frontend for different search engines (daemons) which provides a unified interface. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+ 2. You can configure it to your needs by using several command line options.
  • Charmap
    Charmap is a powerful character map. It works on Unix-like operating systems with the GNUstep installed. Charmap's power lies not just in simply helping to pick characters, but also its display of substantial Unicode data about each character, such as the Unicode name, alias, canonical decomposition, Unicode category, and various representations. With all this, linguaphiles and software developers alike will find Charmap a useful tool.
  • COnfigurator for Gnome
    for editing advanced GNOME settings in an easy way. The backend uses gconf and XML descriptions, but all the user will see is a (somewhat) nice GUI
  • Crauti
    Crauti, is a Tree Organized Object Container written in Python for the Gnome desktop. From the user's point of view it's a place where to drop files that needs to be "at hand", it's similar to the nautilus side's bar tree.
  • Desktop Data Manager
    Desktop Data Manager is a Clipboard Manager for GNOME similar to Klipper for KDE. With DDM it is possible to display different types of content like text or images.
  • Diffuse
    Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives the user the ability to manually correct line-matching and to edit the files directly.
  • dirdiff
    a graphical tool to display the differences(a la diff) between files in directories. Given two or more directory trees, dirdiff will display the differences between them in various glorious colors. It provides merging and the creation of patches
  • Disk Usage Viewer
    Disk Usage Viewer lets you see the disk usage of your folders and files to help you clean up your drive.
  • doudou
    an unuseful gtk app that allow browsing through 'ls -lR' files
  • Dox
    Dox is a graphical documentation browser for Unix/X11.
  • Dragbox
    Dragbox is a tool for connecting the commandline with the desktop environment. It summons a drag handle from nowhere when you are managing files or information in a shell, further empowering you in your workflow.
  • driveplugger
    driveplugger is a removable storage manager that safely puts control into the hands of the user. It makes devices such as USB drives, CDROMs, or any other removable media easy to use.
  • DupeFinder
    DupeFinder is a simple application for locating, moving, renaming and deleting duplicate files in a directory structure.
  • DuTree
    DuTree is a tool that helps you keep track of which directories and files are hogging space.
  • duv
    draws an interactive visualization of disk usage, with display area proportional to disk space. The map may be based on directory hierarchy, uid of owner, tail of filename (.c, .mp3, etc.), or number of days since last access or modification
  • Earth
    Earth allows you to find files across a large network of machines and track disk usage in real time.
  • edxRUN
    a clone of the Windoze (Start -> run)
  • Eiciel
    Eiciel is a graphical tool to manipulate POSIX ACLs and extended user attributes for the GNOME environment. It integrates nicely into the Nautilus file manager but also features a standalone application.
  • Euterpe
    a generic media searching/playing Gnome applet. It allows one to easily and quickly open files from an archive using simple search strings
  • Eventman
    a lightweight eventlist manager
  • FancyLauncher
    FancyLauncher is a program launcher with many customizable features.
  • Filelight
    Filelight creates an interactive map of concentric segmented-rings that represent the sizes of files and directories on your computer.
  • Find 'Em All
    FindEmAll is another graphical find-and-grep tool. The user interface is inspired by XFCE-3's XFglob and Efinder, which is part of the Equinox desktop environment.
  • Find++
    a small but very useful tool to find files on your system
  • fldiff
    a graphical diff program that shows the differences between two files or a file and a CVS or Subversion repository. It is inspired by xxdiff, which originally was a Motif program but has since migrated to Qt
  • Freesplitter
    a free, easy to use file splitting tool for Linux (and other unices). It can split files in smaler parts and merge those parts back together, and supports changeble media
  • gatO
    Gtk ATOperation is an interface to the at UNIX command.
  • gcrontab
    a crontab editor for the UNIX cron system
  • GDU
    displays a graphical tree showing the disk space used by each file/folder like du
  • getgui
    a simple X11 graphical user interface (GUI) box that can be invoked from the command line or from shell scripts to get user responses using buttons and/or key input
  • giq
    the GNU interactive queue - essentially manages a list of processes
  • GKsu
    a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need to ask a user's password to run another program as another user
  • gLaptop
    gLaptop is a software applet for GNOME. It provides easy access to suspend, standby, battery charge level, pcmcia (pc-card) swapping, and two generic "script on/off" buttons.
  • gls
    a file listing utility, similar in scope and behavior to the GNU ls utility and Steve Baker's tree, but tries to improve. It is based on GNOME-VFS
  • Gmount-iso
    Gmount-iso is a small tool written using PyGTK and Glade. It allows you to easily mount your cd images. This is a frontend to the 'mount -o loop -t iso9660 foo.iso /mountpoint' command.
  • gMUTOO
    gMUTOO is an elegant service launcher/stopper/monitor that resides in the window manager tray. It has been mostly thought for the launch of daemons (httpd, ftpd, sshd and so on), but it can be used to start/stop pretty much anything.
  • GNOME Clipboard Manager
    an application for managing selections and clipboards. It auto- collects selections on a shelf and has the option to choose which selection is to be pasted. Selections can be edited, manually created, deleted, copied, and pasted. The available selection types are clipboard, primary, secondary, or a custom atom
  • GNOME Do
    GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present in your GNOME desktop environment (applications, Evolution contacts, Firefox bookmarks, files, artists and albums in Rhythmbox, Pidgin buddies, etc.) and perform commonly used actions on those items (Run, Open, Email, Chat, Play, etc.). Read more
  • GNOME Launch Box
    GNOME Launch Box is generally an application launcher. It's very influenced by Quicksilver for Mac OSX.
  • Gnome Process Tree
    displays via GNOME/GTK the Unix processes as a tree or forest; the roots of the tree are on the left-hand side and the leaf processes (with no children) are on the right-hand side
  • Gnome Run Program Utility
    Gnome Run Program Utility is a simple "run-program" window, something like "xrun" or "gnome-run". However, those other tools don't have some nice and important features: the very useful feature that allows one to use it with keyboard only, and to be fast enough.
  • GNOME Task Scheduler
    The GNOME Task Scheduler (Gat) allows you to schedule and manage one-time and recurring tasks using a simple GNOME interface. Gat is a front-end for "cron" and "at" but should be simple enough that users can use it without prior knowledge of "cron" or "at."
  • GNOME Translate
    a GNOME interface to libtranslate. It can translate a text or web page between several natural languages, and it can automatically detect the source language as you type
  • Gnome xsu
    a tool to replace the `su -c command` in Gnome
  • gnome-find
    an easy-to-use, but powerful, graphical version of the GNU "find" utility. It is not just a front-end which just forks and execs "find", nor is it a utility that reinvents the wheel by rewriting the "find" utility itself
  • gnome-ls
    gnome-ls is a file listing utility, similar in scope and behavior to the GNU ls utility and tree, but tries to improve on them. It is based on GNOME-VFS.
  • GnomeRAR
    an archiver for GNOME based on GTK+ that currently supports only RAR archives
  • GPing
    a small Gnome applet which pings a host and displays the RTT (round trip time) of the ICMP package
  • GPRename
    a GUI batch file renamer based on Gtk-Perl
  • GProc
    GProc is a program that allow you to manage your running processes with only a few mouse clicks. You can build it as a 'tiny skinnable' gtk application wich takes a small place on your desktop, or you can use the gnome version, wich will dock GProc into the panel.
  • gPS
    a graphical process status tool for Linux, working like ps and top. It may refresh automatically every second or refresh upon user requests
  • GPytage
    GPytage is a utility that helps manage Portage's user config files with a GTK interface. It supports the package directory structure as well as the traditional file package.[keywords, unmask, mask, use] file structure. Adding, editing, and removing package's from Portage's user config files is easy.
  • gravityd
    a graphical interface to various network commands, and displays the nodes and related networks between your computer and another node on an IP based network
  • GRegExp Explorer
    GRegExp Explorer is a graphical regular expression explorer based on the PCRE regular expression library.
  • gRun
    a clone of Win32's Run dialog using GTK as the GUI toolkit
  • gsendfile
    a frontend to the Unix tools sendfile and receive. Unlike FTP, sendfile (and the saft protocol), allows asynchronous file transfer via the Internet (similar to e-mail)
  • gtail
    a program, like unix tail, for continuously displaying text appearing at the end of a stream like in log file or with the output of a command
  • GTK xset
    GTK xset IS a graphical frontend to the X command line tool xset. It is a gtk application, designed with Glade.
  • GTK-server
    GTK-server is a standalone binary, which is able to communicate by a 2-way pipe or by a TCP port. The Shell-script invokes this binary, sets up a pipe or a TCP connection and prints the GTK call in plain text to the pipe or socket. The server then sends information back which can be used in the script. In this way, all kinds of GUI's can be created.
  • gtk-splitter
    splits files into smaller pieces and combine them back together. It can also generate a DOS batch file so that the split files can be combined on DOS/Windows systems. gtk-splitter is good for working around file limitations with floppy disks, email attachments, etc. gtk-splitter is coded and tested on Linux, but should work on other POSIX systems
  • gtkdiff
    gtkdiff is a graphical diff tool. It has diff3 and merge features. It's written with GTK+. After gtkdiff-0.8.0, it requires GNOME.
  • gtkmotd
    a small utility to display the message of the day in an X window
  • GtkOrphan
    GtkOrphan (a Perl/Gtk2 application for debian systems) is a graphical tool which analyzes the status of your installations, looking for orphaned libraries. It implements a GUI front-end for deborphan, adding the package-removal capability.
  • GtkRecover
    a GTK version of the console program recover
  • GTKtalog
    GTKtalog is a tool to make disk catalog: you can use it to create a really small database with images of files and directories of your CDs.
  • GTKtrue
    GTKtrue is a graphical front-end to /bin/true written using the popular GTK+ widget set.
  • gts
    gts is a gnome task scheduler (interface to at and cron).
  • gxhost
    an interface to the command xhost written in GTK
  • Hashish
    a file and string hashing utility that computes cryptograhpic hashes. It is cross platform and includes a gui front end
  • IDRA
    IDRA is a GUI that act as a frontend for various terminal apps commonly shipped in a Linux Distro. This give a simple way to monitor system and devices process. This GUI is generatad with GAMBAS
  • im-chooser
    im-chooser is a GUI frontend application featured with IMSettings to choose the input method you want to use. It can also disable input methods entirely on the desktop. This allows you to pick an input method and switch it on demand without restarting either your applications or your desktop.
  • InfView
    an easy to use info viewer which uses overlapping windows (real windows, not "screens"), fully supports mouse, have pull-down menues and pop-up windows, etc
  • Istanbul
    Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file. To start the recording, you click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon again. It works on GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.
  • jaZip
    a program for maintaining your Iomega Zip and/or Jaz drive(s) and disks under Linux
  • Kaptain
    a universal graphical front-end for command line programs. It works on linux/UNIX platforms whereever KDE 2 and QT 2.1 are available
  • kArchiver
    a little utility for Linux & KDE. Its goal is to make your work with all compressed files easy
  • kautorun
    docks in your KDE panel and behaves like autorun
  • kcd
    kcd is a directory change utility under Linux or any other Unix clones. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can supply the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you or let kcd show the entire directory tree and use arrow keys to go to the destination directory.
  • KCharMap
    a simple little program for viewing the entire character set available in a font. Characters can be selected with the mouse and copied to the clipboard for pasting into another document or application
  • KChmod
    KChmod is a graphical tool for setting file permissions.
  • KcmBind
    a front-end utility to configure bind
  • kdepopup
    receive and send messages via Samba (smbclient -M), now with more error recovery and session management
  • kdiff
    a KDE frontend to diff, a utility to make patches
  • KDiff3
    compares two or three text input files, shows the differences line by line and character by character, provides an automatic merge-facility and an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts and has an intuitive graphical user interface
  • KDirStat
    a graphical disk usage utility, very much like the Unix "du" command. In addition to that, it comes with some cleanup facilities to reclaim disk space
  • KDiskFree
    graphically shows you the disk usage on your system and updates itself in definable intervals (KDE)
  • KDoodle
    KDoodle is a graphical frontend to doodle. It provides indexed lookups and automatic opening of a returned file as well as saving configuration files.
  • KDuMon
    KDuMon is a KDE front-end to the standard unix "du" utility for looking at your disk usage. It displays a Tree List structure of the directories ("folders") on your disk, so that you can quickly navigate through your folders and discover which of them contain the most data.
  • Kewl Session Manager
    provides a nice menu that allows you to choose which window manager, program, or script you wish to launch for the session after logging in. It uses Tcl/Tk and is designed for people that can not settle on one window manager or desktop environment
  • KFileReplace
    KFileReplace is a very capable multi-line, mutli-file, multi-directory find and replace that can create backups, use wildcards and generally do almost anything you could want from such a tool.
  • kidentify
    a utility to show sme information about a file, like file magic, needed shared libraries and core information
  • kio-locate
    kio-locate is a KIO slave for KDE that runs the locate command.
  • Kio_iso
    Kio_iso is a KDE 3 ioslave, for reading ISO-9660 (ECMA-119) file system images. It can read from a so-called .iso file, or directly from the CD-ROM device. The later has the ability to select from the recorded sessions.
  • KlipOQuery
    The KlipOQuery-Panelapplet for KDE is meant to be a bridge between Klipper and the Web. By simply copying the active item from the clipboard, KlipOQuery will pass this string to the selected service from the popupmenu.
  • klocate
    a frontend for GNU locate (from GNU findutils), for finding your files much faster, now with a context menue on each found entry
  • Kmerge
    allows diffing, merging, interactive patching of files and directories
  • KMOTD
    a small KDE program that displays the Message of the Day (/etc/motd) on login
  • KPreg
    a helper application for completing web forms and other programs. It provides an interface for entering commonly-required data, such as name, email, address, etc
  • KProFTPD
    KProFTPD is a configuration frontend for the proftpd FTP server.
  • KQuick
    an open translation system to translate words between languages, resolve acronyms, lookup numbers.
  • Krc
    a graphical irexec for KDE. It docks in the panel and lets you execute arbitrary commands on an IR signal decoded by lircd, the LIRC daemon. It supports loading of different lircrc config files
  • Krename
    offers you an easy way to rename hundreds of files in one go, giving you as much freedom you need. You can use parts of the old filename, files information like date or even an mp3 tag or the colour depth of an image. Krename integrates into the Konqueror or Krusader filemanager
  • Kscp
    Kscp is a front-end for scp. Kscp is written using Qt Toolkit & kdevelop. Kscp keeps passwords in the files and allows you to use them during copying process.
  • KTop
    KTop is the KDE Task Manager. It displays the processes running on computer in list and tree form. Processes can be killed and various other signals can be send to specific processes. It also features a processor load and memory usage monitor.
  • KWebGet
    a frontend to the great 'wget'
  • kwhois
    checks the TLD of the domain you look up, then uses the correct registar whois server if it knows the TLD
  • KXMLviewer
    a KDE based XML viewer written in Python. It is based on Phil Thompson's excellent Python bindings for Qt/KDE
  • Ky
    a KDE version of the useful unix utility "yes"
  • LaTeX2HTML-gui
    a graphical user interface for LaTeX2HTML. You can set about 100 parameters of LaTeX2HTML in graphic dialogs instead of typing a config file
  • LavaPS
    an interactive process-tracking program like top'', but with a much different attitude. Rather than presenting lots of specific info in digital form, it tries to present certain important information in a graphical analog form
  • linbar launcher
    a launchbar with a GTK interface. It has rudimentary tab completion and the ability to add shortcuts (for example a Google or Wikipedia search)
  • Linefeed
    a little GTK utility which offer an easy way to convert DOS text files to UNIX text files by removing all unwanted carriage return characters
  • linHDD
    linHDD acts as a fontend for some basic Linux tools, which should all be on your machine already. hdparm gives the detailed drive information shown in the large textbox. Also enables testing the HDD read speed in MB/s. df, (which lists mounted devices), mkfs and its relatives for formatting (supporting ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs -- if they are supported on your machine.) And cfdisk pops up if you choose to partition a drive.
  • LoST
    a kind of graphical 'du' with more powerful features
  • ls -l
    a graphical clone of the ls -l command, uses a fast and selfmade GUI to do the job. It's only dependant on Xlib
  • Lucidity
    Lucidity will attempt to become the next generation graphical user interface. It is being built in Ruby, which will make developing new extensions and applications very fast and simple.
  • LVM Gui
    a GUI for the Linux Logical Volume Manager
  • Magic Mounter
    mimics the behaviour of MacOS with regards to automatic monitoring and mounting of the volumes in your system (CDs, ZIP disks, floppies, HDs) using their volume name as the mount point
  • Magnification Composite Manager
    The Magnification Composite Manager (MCM) is a screen magnifier that enlarges all or a portion of the screen for visually-impaired users of the Gnome desktop. The user's preferences are configured in the Gnome control panel for the magnifier, Gnome Scope (gscope).
  • md5copy
    md5copy copies one or more files / directories to a destination, and compute an md5 checksum on the fly. Currently the .md5 files are generated per directory.
  • Mfsm
    Mfsm is an X-Windows Motif utility that monitors free space and user quotas of filesystems.
  • MToolsFM
    a graphical frontend for mtools. It is based on GTK+ V1.2 and released under the GPL
  • MyClipboard
    MyClipboard is a cross-platform network shared clipboard. it is built with C++ using the Qt library. With the AutoUpdate option enabled , you can do Ctrl+C on one computer and Ctrl+V immediately on the other.
  • Métamorphose File -n- Folder Renamer
    Métamorphose File -n- Folder Renamer is a mass file renaming program that combines great flexability with an intuitive interface. It allows many command line renaming operations in a single utility, well-suited for those who need to rename large numbers of files and/or folders on a regular basis. However, the ease of the interface ensures that a first-time user will not find it too frustrating to use.
  • ncps
    ncps is an ncurses based ps utility that can sort processes to criteria and also displays processes in tree format.
  • NEsGUI
    a GTK+ GUI using the NEshare library
  • OneFinger
    a graphical shell for linux where you compose CLI commands with the mouse. You only have to type them once; later you can select them from a list. You also have a file browser to insert filenames without typing. It also features "narrowing".
  • Otak
    to provide a visual interface to programs, that doesn't have one, but needs to take arguments, that can be selected from list
  • peless
    a simple text file lister. It only displays files and never modifies them. It can display multiple files using a tabbed notebook. It can display international characters. It can search the files for regular expressions or literal expressions. Users can choose the fonts used to display files
  • pload
    pload is an Xaw based network load monitor.
  • PrefixSuffix
    a GUI application that renames batches of files by changing the beginning or end of their names
  • Pro Forma
    a GUI tool that lets you fill out forms on your computer like you would with a typewriter
  • psDooM
    a process monitor and manager for *nix systems. It could be considered a graphical interface to the 'ps', 'renice', and 'kill' commands. psDooM is based on XDoom, which is based on id Software's 'Doom'
  • pyFind
    a Find File utility for Gnome. Primarily written in Python and the pygtk / pygnome wrapper
  • pyFind2
    a simple Find File utility. It's entirely written in Python and sports a pygtk2 GUI interface
  • PylotLight
    PylotLight is a cross-platform, themeable, plugin-supporting system for general computing tasks. It is comparable to QuickSilver, which you may recognize if you use a Mac. Current plugins exist for Web searches, Firefox bookmark launching, filesystem browsing and managing, subversion control, terminal control, and more.
  • Pysize
    Pysize is a graphical and console tool for exploring the size of directories. Three user interfaces are available using the --ui command line option. The best available UI is chosen by default.
  • QSynergy
    QSynergy is a comprehensive and easy-to-use graphical front end for Synergy. Synergy lets a user control more than one computer with a single mouse and keyboard (and has lots and lots of extra features on top of that). Since Synergy only has a GUI for MS Windows, QSynergy was written to step in and fill this gap for users on Mac and Unix platforms.
  • Quickrun
    brings up a window to let you quickly run commands without having to start an xterm. It features a command history and filename completion
  • Qurl
    a small QT popup program that takes a URL as input, and opens it in the Web browser or FTP client of your choice
  • regexxer
    a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you're tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try
  • Renamer
    a small Qt based file renamer program for Linux, which can easely renames a lot of file with same style
  • reXgrep
    a powerful, intutive and user-friendly interface to the grep command, which has been built using the GTK+ toolkit. It allows one to search for keywords in a more intutive fashion by using relationships like "Exact Phrase", "All", "Some" and "None" apart from "Regular Expressions" which the classical grep program supports
  • RFind
    RFind is a little application that indexes the filenames of a given directory, and allows to quickly search this index with regular expressions.
  • rpmstatus
    a Perl script that generates web-pages which shows which RPM packages are installed on client machines
  • RSIBreak
    RSIBreak will sit in your system tray and when it is time for a break it will show you the picture full screen. All timings can be set by clicking with the right mouse button on the icon in the system tray.
  • run-free
    a free, GNU licensed command line launcher for your chosen X Windows desktop environment
  • RunLaunch
    a gtk/gnome program execution utility. Features include: A run in terminal facility, File Browser. Executables can be found using a standard gnome/gtk file browser, Program history. Dropdown box for selecting a previous executed program, Automatic history completion. Start typing a previous command line and it will be automatically completed
  • Sagasu
    Sagasu is a GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files. The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched. Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the appropriate line.
  • screenie
    Screenie is a small and lightweight GNU screen frontend that is designed to be a session handler that simplifies the process of administrating detached jobs by providing an interactive menu.
  • screenpager
    Screenpager is a screenwise pager for X workstations running Xinerama. It is similar to a desktop pager, but it works at the level of screens. Instead of paging the desktop as a whole, it can page each screen independently, or move pages from screen to screen.
  • ScsiaddGui
    ScsiaddGui is a graphical user interface for the scsiadd - utility. Insert your scanner to the running system without having to reboot.
  • skim
    skim is an input method platform based upon scim-lib under *NIX systems (including GNU/Linux and FreeBSD) optimized for KDE. It provides a GUI panel (named scim-panel-kde), a KConfig config module and SetupUIs for itself and scim-lib. It also has its own plugin system which supports on-demand loadable actions.
  • Superkill
    finish one or more processes with the same name, or the specified PID
  • Tabatha
    a quick, simple, popup menu to run system commands. Tabatha is light and fast. It requires only a recent version of perl, and GTK2::Perl, both of which are included in almost all modern Linux distributions
  • TabLaunch
    a simple, cool-looking X application launchbar written in C, based on YeahLaunch. Displays user-specified applications as tabs along the top of screen and becomes hidden after a delay. Uses Imlib to show and enlarge icons when moused-over
  • Teardrop
    Teardrop provides a way to query multiple search engines at the same time, and explore their results as a single source. It's available both in a command line and a graphical version.
  • The Linux Registry Editor
    designed to be the graphical equivalent to the rg command. It shows you all the values of the keys including the type, comment, uid, gid, acces mode and acces times
  • Tkchooser
    a Macintosh Chooser-like network browser utility that supports multiple protocols (appletalk, smb) with a modular architecture
  • TkMan
    a graphical hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser
  • TkReq
    TkReq is an X Windows interface to the req system.
  • tkRunIt
    a run dialog box for X which allows you to execute commandline without using an xterm
  • TkViewMan
    TkViewMan is a graphical man page viewer for Linux. It is written in Tcl/Tk, using the BLT extension.
  • tkwget
    a GUI frontend for GNU Wget. It makes downloading web pages a little easier for people who are not very fond of entering long command lines
  • toolwrap
    Toolwrap is a wrapper tool (a program which starts other program), which may be used to launch applications according to defined preferences (or policies). Thanks to toolwrap, many releases of a given application can coexist, and may be deployed on a single workstation or made available on a files server.
  • Torta
    Torta shows you where your disk space is going. It uses the graphical format used by filelight to represent disk usage. Unlike filelight, Torta can be run on a computer with no graphical environment: it generates a flash file that can be consulted, locally or remotelly, using any browser that has the flash plugin installed.
  • Treeps
    a X/Motif Unix Process Visualizer
  • TreeSize for Unix
    TreeSize for Unix shows the space used by each folder on your disk(s), sorted by size. It can be useful to assist in obtaining more free space. It is basically a graphical version of du, with a much better interface than xdu, and is more practical than Filelight.
  • Ulog
    enables you to find currently opened X sessions. It is the X equivalent of commands such as who or last
  • Uptime Applet
    a Gnome applet which will display your system uptime
  • wdiff
    a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace. This is useful for comparing two texts in which a few words have been changed and for which paragraphs have been refilled. It works by creating two temporary files, one word per line, and then executes diff on these files. It collects the diff output and uses it to produce a nicer display of word differences between the original files
  • Windowgrouper
    Windowgrouper is a GNOME 2 panel applet that allows you to group windows together so that when one window in a group is minimized, unminimized, or moved to another desktop, the same operation is applied to the other windows in that group.
  • wmAppKill
    a window maker dock app that lists all your running processes
  • Wmchoose
    a simple little utility that allows a user to select a window manager as their X server starts up
  • WMTimer
    WMTimer is a dockable WindowMaker app that can execute a command or sound the system bell when specified time is reached or the countdown timer reaches zero.
  • wmVolMan
    wmVolMan is a small volume manager for Window Maker. For now it only displays and allows mounting and unmounting hotpluggable devices and removable media that are added to or removed from the system. It uses D-BUS and HAL to listen for new devices.
  • xapmload
    displays a graph of a laptop's APM battery charge average. It looks just like xload except it graphs hours of battery left and has the label in "hh:mm" format
  • xcut
    a small but useful program which can take standard input and store it in the X cut buffer, and also work in reverse by writing the X cut buffer onto standard output
  • XDiskFree
    XDiskFree graphically displays the maximum fillstate, the used & free space on your harddisk.
  • xdiskusage
    a user-friendly program to show you what is using up all your disk space
  • Xfce4-taskmanager
    Xfce4-taskmanager is a simple taskmanager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
  • XFinger
    XFinger is a X frontend for finger.
  • xlocate
    xlocate is an X front end to the standard Linux slocate utility, allowing instant searching through local and remote file systems as well as shelved collections of removable drives, CDROMs and data DVDs.
  • XMacro
    XMacro contains two programs (xmacrorec and xmacroplay) for recording and replaying keyboard and mouse events on an X server.
  • xmotd
    a utility program that can be used to periodically check whether one or more files have been modified and display them if they have.
  • Xnetload
    an X11 program to monitor throughput on a network connection
  • Xnew
    a set of tools for allowing users to request and perhaps create accounts on a system
  • Xosview
    Xosview displays many system related stats such as cpu usage, memory usage, swap usage, network usage, interrupt activity, serial activity, and load average inside of an X Window.
  • xps
    xps displays and continuously updates in an X Window the Unix processes as a tree or forest. The roots of the tree are on the left-hand side and the leaf processes (with no children) are on the right-hand side. The status of each process (running, sleeping, stopped, etc.) can be indicated by a color. Different users can appear as different colors too.
  • Xrun
    Xrun launches programs under X Window System.
  • xsel
    a quick hack to give access to the X selection from the command line
  • xtail
    watches the growth of files. It's like running a "tail -f" on a bunch of files at once
  • xwindiff
    xwindiff is an X11/Xt-based implementation of the Windows-based windiff utility.
  • Z
    a simple and convenient front-end for the compress(1), uncompress(1), gzip(1), tar(1), zip(1) and unzip(1) utilities for compressing and uncompressing files and directories



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