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Video Editors

PiTiVi – video editing made easier

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

PiTiVi is an open source video editor, written in Python and based on GStreamer and GTK+. It aims at being a powerful and flexible video editing solution.

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Shotcut – cross-platform video editor

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor. It is a powerful tool that provides several ways of creating and modifying a timeline.

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kdenlive – KDE Non-Linear Video Editor

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Kdenlive is a non linear video editor for the KDE desktop environment. The software provides project management and editing tools.

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OpenShot – powerful video editor

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

OpenShot Video Editor is a non-linear video editor for Linux, built with Python, GTK, and the MLT Framework.

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Application Launchers

Albert – fast and flexible keyboard launcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Albert is a desktop agnostic launcher, inspired by the ease of use of OS X’s Alfred launcher. Written in C++ and based on the Qt framework.

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Kupfer – smart, quick launcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Kupfer is software designed to change, speed up and make everything about files and programs more fun on your computer.

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bashrun2 – start programs from interactive bash sessions

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

bashrun2 is an application launcher based on a modified bash session in a small terminal window, providing all the well known bash features like tab-completion and history.

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dmenu – fast and lightweight dynamic menu

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

dmenu is a fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X. It reads arbitrary text from stdin, and creates a menu with one item for each line.

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Gnome-Pie – slick application launcher for Linux

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Gnome-Pie is a circular application launcher for Linux that’s meant to be fun, easy to use, fast, and visually attractive.

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rofi – window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

rofi is a window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement. Its main aim is to improve your workflow, allowing users to quickly switch between windows, start applications or log into a remote machine via ssh.

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Synapse – semantic launcher written in Vala

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Synapse is a semantic graphical launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files.

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Application Launchers

lxqt-runner – LXQt application launcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

lxqt-runner is a tool used to launch programs quickly by typing their names. A calculator function is implemented too.

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Launchy – application launcher tool

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Launchy is a utility designed to help users forget about the application menu, the icons on the desktop, and even the file manager.

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fuzzel – application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Fuzzel is a Wayland-native application launcher, similar to rofi’s drun mode. It’s free and open source software.

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xstarter – application launcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

xstarter is an application launcher for Linux. It lives in the terminal and works well with tiling window managers (e.g. xmonad, i3 etc).

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Xpdf – free PDF viewer and toolkit

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more.

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llpp – Fast and featureful PDF, EPUB, XPS and CBZ viewer based on MuPDF

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

llpp is a lightweight, fast and featureful PDF, EPUB, XPS and CBZ viewer based on MuPDF. The software seels to superficially resemble less.

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JFBView – PDF and image viewer for the Linux framebuffer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

JFBView is a PDF and image viewer for the Linux framebuffer. This open source PDF viewer is very fast in operation.

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Xreader – document reader

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Xreader is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript, Portable Document Format files, and other formats.

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qpdfview – tabbed document viewer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

qpdfview is a simple, tabbed document viewer. It uses Poppler for PDF support, libspectre for PS support, DjVuLibre for DjVu support.

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