List of applications/Utilities

See the main article: Command-line shell.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of command shells.

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/jwilm/alacritty || alacritty

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

http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php || aterm^AUR

• 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/ || coreterminal^AUR

• CuteCom — A graphical serial terminal.

https://gitlab.com/cutecom/cutecom || cutecom^AUR

• 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 || eterm^AUR

• 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 || hyper^AUR

• Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

• Tilda — Configurable drop down terminal emulator.

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

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

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 || yaft^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Terminal pager.

• Vim can also be used as a pager.

See also Wikipedia:Terminal multiplexer.

• abduco — Tool for session attach and detach support which allows a process to run independently from its controlling terminal.

https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/ || abduco

• GNU Screen — Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.

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

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file managers.

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

https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm || clifm^AUR

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

https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/ || lfm^AUR

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

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

• 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/ || corefm^AUR

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

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

• PathFinder — File browser that comes with the FOX toolkit.

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

• 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

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

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

https://github.com/trol73/mucommander || trolcommander^AUR

See Trash management#Trash creation.

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

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

https://www.freefilesync.org/ || freefilesync^AUR

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

https://restic.net/ || restic

• Tarsnap — Secure, efficient proprietary online backup service.

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

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

• Arqiver — Simple Qt archive manager based on libarchive.

https://github.com/tsujan/Arqiver || arqiver-git^AUR

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

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

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file comparison tools.

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

See from and its alternatives.

• 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

• 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

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

https://meldmerge.org/ || meld

Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and .

See from .

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

https://github.com/bulletmark/edir || edir^AUR

• GPRename — GTK batch renamer for files and directories.

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

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

See also Wikipedia:List of search engines#Desktop search engines.

See from findutils and its alternatives.

• 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

These programs index your files to allow for quick searching.

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

• Namazu — A Full-Text Search Engine

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

• github-cli — GitHub's official command line tool

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

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of revision control software.

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

https://bazaar.canonical.com/ || bzr^AUR

See also Wikipedia:List of build automation software.

• Apache Maven — Build automation tool used primarily for Java.

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

• Gradle — Powerful build system for the JVM.

https://gradle.org/ || gradle

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of integrated development environments.

For PHP specific list, see PHP#Development tools.

• 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

• 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

• LiteIDE — Simple Go IDE.

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

• 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-electron^AUR

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

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

• 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

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

https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed || desed^AUR

• Massif-Visualizer — Visualizer for Valgrind Massif data files.

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

Lex and Yacc are part of POSIX.

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

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

And then there are also:

• 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

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of hex editors.

• hyx — Minimalistic but powerful console hex editor.

https://yx7.cc/code/ || hyx^AUR

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

https://www.wxhexeditor.org/ || wxhexeditor^AUR

• the Elvish shell has built-in support for JSON

See also Wikipedia:Literate programming.

• nuweb — A Simple Literate Programming Tool

http://nuweb.sourceforge.net/ || nuweb^AUR

See also Wikipedia:List of Unified Modeling Language tools.

• Papyrus — Model-based engineering tool based on Eclipse.

https://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/ || papyrus^AUR

• 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/ || umlet^AUR

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

https://github.com/mdh34/quickDocs || quickdocs^AUR

• 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

See also Git server#Advanced web applications.

• GitLab also supports code reviews.

See also Wikipedia:List of tools for code review.

See also Wikipedia:List of game engines.

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

https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite || libresprite^AUR

• 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 || unityhub^AUR

• gucharmap — GTK 3 character selector for GNOME.

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

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

https://cubocore.org/ || corekeyboard^AUR

• theShell On Screen Keyboard — Touchscreen keyboard for theShell.

https://github.com/vicr123/ts-kbd || ts-kbd^AUR

• gxkb — X11 keyboard layout indicator and switcher.

https://github.com/zen-tools/gxkb || gxkb

See Keyboard shortcuts#Xorg.

See the main article: Input method.

See Partitioning#Partitioning tools.

See File systems#Types of file systems.

See Disk cloning.

See also udisks#Mount helpers.

• ldm — A lightweight daemon that mounts drives automagically using udev

https://github.com/LemonBoy/ldm || ldm^AUR

• duc — A library and suite of tools for inspecting disk usage.

https://duc.zevv.nl/ || duc^AUR

• GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer — Disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop to check folder sizes and available disk space.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer || baobab

See S.M.A.R.T.#GUI applications.

See File recovery#List of utilities.

• duff — A command-line utility for quickly finding duplicates in a given set of files.

https://github.com/elmindreda/duff || duff^AUR

• rmlint — Tool to quickly find (and optionally remove) duplicate files and other lint.

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint || rmlint

• Sweeper — System cleaning utility for KDE.

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

See also Wikipedia:List of tools to create Live USB systems.

• GNOME MultiWriter — Write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/MultiWriter || gnome-multi-writer

• Popsicle — Utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel, written in Rust.

https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle || popsicle^AUR

• CoreStats — Simple lightweight system resource viewer to monitor the CPU, RAM, Network and Disk IO statistics. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corestats^AUR

• bashtop — A Linux resource monitor written in bash.

https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop || bashtop

• LXTask — Lightweight task manager for LXDE.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || lxtask

See also Category:Monitoring.

• Conky — Lightweight, scriptable system monitor.

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky || conky

• GKrellM — Simple, flexible system monitor package for GTK with many plug-ins.

https://billw2.github.io/gkrellm/gkrellm.html || gkrellm

• netdata — Web-based real-time performance monitor.

https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki || netdata

See lm_sensors#Graphical front-ends.

• alsi — A system information tool for Arch Linux. It can be configured for every other system without even touching the source code of the script.

https://trizenx.blogspot.com/2012/08/alsi.html || alsi^AUR

• neofetch — A fast, highly customizable system info script that supports displaying images with w3m.

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

• GPU-Viewer — GUI to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info; written in Python with GTK.

https://github.com/arunsivaramanneo/GPU-Viewer || gpu-viewer^AUR

• KSystemLog — System log viewer tool for KDE.

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

See also Wikipedia:Font management software.

• Deepin Font Manager — A font management tool for Deepin desktop.

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

See man page#Installation.

See also Cron.

• GNOME Schedule — Graphical interface to crontab and at for GNOME.

http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net/ || gnome-schedule^AUR

• KShutdown — Graphical shutdown utility, which allows you to turn off or suspend a computer at a specified time. It features various time and delay options, command-line support, and notifications.

https://kshutdown.sourceforge.io/ || kshutdown

See Time synchronization.

See Xrandr#Graphical front-ends.

See Backlight#Backlight utilities.

See ICC profiles#Utilities and Backlight#Color correction.

See CUPS#GUI applications.

See Bluetooth#Front-ends.

See Power management#Userspace tools.

See Systemd#GUI configuration tools.

See GRUB/Tips and tricks#GUI configuration tools.

See pacman tips#Utilities.

• Puppet — IT automation software that helps system administrators manage infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to patch management and compliance.

https://puppet.com/ || puppet

See Libvirt#Client and VirtualBox.

See Wine (Windows) and Darling (MacOS).