Gala is a window and compositing manager based on libmutter. The program is designed by elementary for use with Pantheon.
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Tag: Vala
Gcron – handles your cron configuration
Gcron is a graphical frontend for cron. This tool handles your cron configuration. It’s written in the Vala language.
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Spedread – GTK speed reading software
Shows one word at a time rapidly to allow focusing on the general idea rather than single words along with less eye movements.
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ThiefMD – markdown editor
ThiefMD is a Markdown and Fountain editor and file manager inspired by Ulysses.
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Radio – Simple Radio App written in Vala
Radio is billed as a simple radio with a clear and concise interface. It’s written in Vala and published under an open source license.
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Pebbles – calculator app
Pebbles is billed as an advanced calculator application. This is a Gtk-based app.
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Linux Candy: Relaxator – relax to soothing sounds
Relaxator is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to soothing sounds. This free and open source utility is written in Vala.
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G4Music – lightweight music player
G4Music is billed as a beautiful, fast, fluent, lightweight music player. Here’s our review.
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Review: Rockarrolla – jukebox emulator
Rockarrolla is a song player that seeks to emulate a music jukebox. It’s written in Vala.
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Tootle – GTK client for Mastodon
Tootle is a multi-functional Mastodon client that is well designed and intuitive to use.
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Linux Candy: Fondo – wallpaper tool
Fondo lets you quickly find beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash. Enjoy your new wallpaper with a single click.
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Tuner – radio station player
Tuner is billed as a minimalist radio station player. It’s free and open source software written in Vala. Designed for elementary OS it runs on other popular Linux distros.
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Reco – audio recording app designed for elementary OS
Reco is an audio recording app designed for elementary OS. Reco is free and open source software. Here’s our review of Reco.
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Minder – mind-mapping tool
Minder lets you use the power of mind-mapping to make your ideas come to life. Minder is free and open source software.
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markets – track stock, currency, and cryptocurrency
markets is a simple tool that lets you track stocks, currencies and cryptocurrencies.
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Byte – music player designed for elementary OS
Byte is a GTK-based music player. It was created with the desire to make a good music player for elementary OS. It focuses on two aspects: features and design.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Vala
Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system. Here’s our recommended free tutorials to learn Vala.
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3 Free Books to Learn Vala
Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system. Here’s our recommended books to learn Vala.
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Melody – music player written in Vala
Melody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.
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Essential System Tools: Timeshift – Reliable system restore tool for Linux
This is the twelfth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at Timeshift.
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