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Application Launchers

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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Application Launchers

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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PDF

llpp – fast document viewer based on MuPDF

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

llpp is a fast, lightweight MuPDF-based viewer for PDF, EPUB, XPS and CBZ files with keyboard controls, OpenGL rendering and custom layouts.

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Xreader – simple multi-format document viewer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Xreader is a straightforward Linux Mint document viewer for PDF and other formats, with bookmarks, thumbnails, search and presentation mode.

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Zathura – lightweight keyboard-driven document viewer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Zathura is a lightweight document viewer with Vim-style controls, configurable shortcuts, searching and support for multiple formats.

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Atril – document viewer for the MATE desktop

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Atril is the MATE document viewer for PDF, DjVu, PostScript and other formats, with searching, thumbnails and straightforward navigation.

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Sioyek – PDF viewer designed for viewing research papers and technical books

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed for research papers and technical books, with smart navigation, searchable references and document portals.

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MuPDF – lightweight PDF, XPS and ebook viewer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and ebook viewer with accurate rendering, fast navigation and command-line tools for document processing.

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Comic Books

cbrPager – simple comic book pager

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

cbrPager is a simple to use, free and open source small viewer for cbr, cbz and cb7 (comic book archive) files. This software is written in C.

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SQL

MySQL Workbench – unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

MySQL Workbench is a complete visual database design tool that integrates SQL development, administration, database design.

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Notes

Xpad – lightweight desktop sticky notes application

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Xpad is a lightweight sticky-note utility with configurable fonts, colours, toolbars, workspace visibility and automatic note saving.

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Compositing Window Managers

Weston – lightweight and functional Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, and more.

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Compositing Window Managers

labwc – Lab Wayland Compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.

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Compositing Window Managers

hikari – stacking Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

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Tiling Window Managers

Notion – tiling, tabbed window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard.

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Tiling Window Managers

Ratpoison – simple window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no fat library dependencies. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.

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Tiling Window Managers

bspwm – tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

bspwm is a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. It represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.

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Tiling Window Managers

i3 – improved tiling window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.

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Backup

BURP – network backup and restore program

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

BURP (BackUp and Restore Program) is an open source network backup and restore program. It uses librsync to save network traffic.

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Backup

Partclone – save and restore used blocks on a partition

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Partclone is a free and open source program similar to the well-known backup utility “Partition Image” a.k.a partimage.

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