- Here is a list of recommended apps for the Xfce Desktop from their Wiki Page (below). I was looking for a "Light Weight Web Browser for an older Machine that is running Xfce. By older, I mean a 400MHz P3 with 385mb of Ram. Yes, Old Older... Mine is running Caos Linux, which is an RPM Based Server Distro. And I have use quite a few different Web Browsers over the years on different older systems. But, I can't always remember their names. This list helped me to remember the Browsers that I have used and found to be good for an older machine. The first list of links, below. Are the Web Browsers that I have used and found good for Older Machines. They use less System Resources, than say Firefox and Chrome and still work well with most Web Plugins. Such as Java and Flash. And and a few more for Gnome and other Desktops too. The rest of the info below, is from the "recommendedapps Xfce Wiki" Page. Check em out...
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Light Weight Web Browsers for the Xfce Desktop
- xfce desktop light weight web browser - Google Search
- recommendedapps [Xfce Wiki]
- Kazehakase
- Dillo Web Browser :: Home Page
- Dillo Web Browser :: Download
- Dillo Web Browser :: Index of Downloads
- The Chromium Projects
- Chromium - The Chromium Projects
- GQview
- Welcome to GNU TeXmacs (FSF GNU project)
- xombrero - ConformalOpenSource
- Projects - Xfce
- Twotoasts | About WebKit, browsers and mail clients. And green cats.
- Midori (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Midori · A lightweight, fast, and free web browser.
- Features · Midori · A lightweight, fast, and free web browser.
- Download Midori · A lightweight, fast, and free web browser.
- Fedora · Download · Midori · A lightweight, fast, and free web browser.
- Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser application
- epiphany web browser - Google Search
- epiphany web browser - Google Search
- Epiphany: The web browser for the GNOME desktop
- Web (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Web Browsers to try out
- SRWare.net • Thema anzeigen - New Iron-Version: 4.0.275 Beta for Linux
- SRWare Iron - The Browser of the Future
Recommendedapps Xfce Wiki
Table of Contents
Suggested Applications
This page contains various suggested applications for the Xfce desktop environment. These applications do not require heavy dependencies and/or fit in the Xfce philosophy to be light on memory usage.
There is a secondary page with suggested command line tools, but only for the console-guru inside you.
System Applications
Terminal
- Description: Vte based/gtk+-2 lightweight X-terminal
- Remarks: Xfce project
Tilda
- Description: Quake-styled Terminal
- GitHub repository: https://github.com/tsloughter/tilda/
fbxkb
- Description: Keyboard layout indicator and switcher
- Website: http://fbxkb.sourceforge.net/
HardInfo
- Description: GTK+2 System information and benchmark tool
- Website: http://hardinfo.berlios.de/HomePage
Keyboard Status Monitor (key-mon)
- Description: Utility to show live keyboard and mouse status for teaching and screencasts
- Website: http://code.google.com/p/key-mon/
LXPolkit
- Description: A minimal policykit authentication agent.
- Website: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=674
LightDM
- Description: A lightweight display manager
- Website: https://launchpad.net/lightdm
SLiM
- Description: Desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11
- Website: http://slim.berlios.de
Meta Tracker
- Description: Tool designed to extract information and metadata about your personal data so that it can be searched easily and quickly
- Remarks: The daemon does not require Gnome dependencies. To perform the searches, use a tool like catfish. (viewed at: http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/13-applications-to-install-on-ubuntu.html)
Wicd
- Description: A wired and wireless network manager which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.
- Website: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
Ceni
- Description: A Curses user interface for configuring network interfaces with ifupdown.
Wpa_supplicant
- Description: A wired and wireless network manager which provides connections to networks with a wide variety of settings.
- Remarks: Installed as a dependency by most other network managers (e.g., Wicd), however can be used directly in roaming mode and via gui interface using wpa-gui
Font-manager
- Description: GTK+2 font-manager written in python
BUM Boot-Up-Manager
- Description: A GTK+ Runlevel-Editor
- Remarks: Debian-like System
X-tile
- Description: Tile windows in different ways
Office Applications
Xfce4 Dictionary
- Description: A dictionary, spelling checker and speed reader application
- Remarks: Xfce project
Orage
- Description: Modern calendar application
- Remarks: Xfce Project
Abiword
- Description: A full-featured, yet light and fast word processor
- Website: http://www.abisource.com
- Remarks: Can pull *some* gnome dependencies (printing is based on libgnomeprint, for example.) Compile yourself to avoid them
Zathura
- Description: minimalistic document viewer, that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.
- Website: http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/
MuPDF
- Description: a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer
- Website: http://www.mupdf.com/
Gnumeric
- Description: Spreadsheet application
- Website: http://www.gnumeric.org
- Remarks: Can pull *some* gnome dependencies (printing is based on libgnomeprint and mandatory, for example.) Compile yourself to avoid them
LyX
- Description: Document Processor, an almost-WYSIWYG frontend to LaTeX
- Website: http://www.lyx.org/
RedNotebook
- Description: Graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts
- Website: http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/
Zim
- Description: A desktop wiki and outliner
- Website: http://zim-wiki.org/
- Remarks: Python application
Notecase
- Description: Hierarchical note manager (aka. outliner)
- Website: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/
- Remarks: Notecase discontinued. NotecasePro is not Free Software
Osmo
- Description: Personal organizer that includes calendar, task manager and address book
- Website: http://clayo.org/osmo/
Dayplanner
- Description: Calendar with reminder and scheduled alarms
- Website: http://www.day-planner.org/
- Remarks: Perl application
Sunbird
- Description: Full-featured and easy to use calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit
StickWiki
- Description: Self-contained desktop wiki
- Website: http://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/
- Self-modifying XHTML file
TeXmacs
- Description: A more-featured text/book writer with hypertext features and an integrated browser mode
- Website: http://www.texmacs.org
- Remarks: Although the name suggests it, neither TeX nor Emacs is required to get it compiled and running. TeXmacs is self-contained but needs guile-gtk for the interface. TeXmacs is in the overworks, and much of the internas (switching to cairo, etc.) and interface will change in the near future.
TiddlyWiki
- Description: a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki
- Website: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
Xpdf
- Description: A basic PDF viewer for X11
- Website: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf
Cabaret Stage
- Description: A JAVA/GTK+ PDF-Editor
- Remarks: NON-FREE(only free for non commercial use)
Network Applications
Midori
- Description: A lightweight web browser based on WebKit
- Website: http://www.twotoasts.de
- Remarks: Xfce project
xombrero
- Description: A minimalist web browser with sophisticated security features designed-in
Kazehakase
- Description: A GTK+ web browser based on the Webkit or Gecko engine
- Website: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp
Dillo
- Description: web-browser that is only 420 kilobytes in size and is based on GTK1 libraries, it is very fast however provides limited functionality.
- Website: http://www.dillo.org/
Chromium
- Description: lightweight & fast WebKit-based Webbrowser
- Website: http://code.google.com/chromium/
Sylpheed
- Description: Slim but fully featured, GTK+ based Email Client (and News Reader)
- Website: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en
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Claws Mail
- Description: Email Client, News Reader, Feed Reader, Calendar …
- Website: http://www.claws-mail.org
- Remarks: Formerly known as Sylpheed Claws, can publish calendar data to Orage.
Balsa
- Description: GTK+-based, written in C. Uses a library version of the Mutt mailer as its “engine”
- Website: http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/
- Remarks: depends on gnome-icon-theme, depends on libgtkhtml which needs libgnomeui)
Geary
- Description: A lightweight, easy-to-use, feature-rich email client
Postler
- Description: A lean mail reader with an opinionated interface
- Website: https://bugs.launchpad.net/postler
- Remarks: Discontinued
Liferea
- Description: A lightweight GTK+ RSS feed reader
- Website: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/
Linkage
- Description: Lightweight GTK+ Bittorrent client
- Website: http://code.google.com/p/linkage/
- Remarks: written in C++ using libgtkmm and libtorrent, homepage shows it is not maintained (18 Nov 09)
Deluge
- Description: Full-featured, GTK+ native Bittorrent client
- Website: http://deluge-torrent.org
- Remarks: python application
Transmission
- Description: fast BitTorrent client with low memory use and lots of features.
- Website: http://www.transmissionbt.com
- Remarks: GTK+ application written in C. The backend can be run as a daemon without a gui.
Uget Download Manager
- Description: download manager written in GTK+, it has many features.
- Website: http://urlget.sourceforge.net/
Pidgin
- Description: An instant messenger client for several protocols
- Website: http://pidgin.im
- Remarks: Formerly known as Gaim
Jitsi
- Description: An audio/video and chat communicator that supports many protocols (SIP, XMPP, etc.)
- Website: http://jitsi.org/
- Remarks: Formerly known as SIP Communicator
Xchat
- Description: A GTK+-2 based IRC client
- Website: http://www.xchat.org
Gajim
- Description: Full-supported Jabber Client
- Website: http://www.gajim.org/
- Remarks: Python application
Linphone
- Description: A SIP/VoIP softphone with support for voice, video, and text instant messaging
- Website: http://www.linphone.org/
Pino
- Description: A lightweight Twitter-client written in Vala
- Website: http://pino-app.appspot.com/index
gFTP
- Description: Graphical FTP client
- Website: http://www.gftp.org
Grsync
- Description: A GUI for rsync
- Website: http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
IcQnD
- Description: GTK+ 2 GUI for the Licq Instant Messenger
- Website: http://icqnd.sourceforge.net
pyNeighborhood
- Description: A smbfs(samba) frontend, a GTK+ 2 rewrite of LinNeighborhood.
- Remarks: python application
SpiderOak
- Description: A secure and free cross-platform online backup, sync and storage solution
- Website: https://spideroak.com/
Yarssr
- Description: Yet Another RSS Reader that displays its results in the notification area
- Website: http://yarssr.sourceforge.net/
- Remark: PERL application
Multimedia: Playback (GStreamer)
GStreamer
- Description: multimedia framework
- Website: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
- Remarks: many frontends.
Parole
- Description: Media player based on GStreamer
- Remarks: Xfce Project
Pragha
- Description: lightweight GTK+ music manager/player
- Website: http://pragha.wikispaces.com/
Foobnix
- Description: Media player based on GStreamer
- Website: http://foobnix.appspot.com/news/eng
- Remarks: python application
Exaile
- Description: GTK+ media player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok
- Website: http://www.exaile.org
- Remarks: python application
Mesk
- Description: Audio player based on GStreamer
- Website: http://mesk.nicfit.net
- Remarks: python application
XNOISE
- Description: XNOISE is a media player for Gtk+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.
- Website: http://code.google.com/p/xnoise/
Quod Libet
- Description: GTK+ audio only player
- Website: http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet
- Remarks: python application
Multimedia: Playback (Xine)
xine
- Description: multimedia playback engine
- Website: http://www.xine-project.org
- Remarks: comes with a frontend(xine-ui)
Xfmedia
- Description: The Xfce media player
- Remarks: Xfce project obsolete
Goggles Music Manager
- Description: Light weight music manager and player.
- Website: http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/
- Remarks: Based on the FOX toolkit, xine for audio and sqlite3 as the database backend.
gxine
- Description: GTK+ media player
- Website: http://www.xine-project.org
Multimedia: Playback (MPlayer)
MPlayer
- Description: media player
- Website: http://www.mplayerhq.hu
- Remarks: comes with a GTK+ frontend(gmplayer)
Gnome-MPlayer
- Description: Gnome MPlayer is a simple GUI for MPlayer. It is intended to be a nice tight player and provide a simple and clean interface to MPlayer.
- Dependencies: The main dependency is on GTK2, GLIB2 and DBUS.
Multimedia: Playback (MPD)
MPD
- Description: runs in the background playing music from its playlist.
- Website: http://mpd.wikia.com
- Remarks: Has many front ends
Xfmpc
- Description: Graphical GTK+ MPD client (Music Player Daemon)
- Remarks: Xfce project
Ario
- Description: A GTK client for MPD inspired by Rhythmbox but much lighter and faster.
- Website: http://ario-player.sourceforge.net/
Gimmix
- Description: GTK+ MPD client
- Website: http://gimmix.berlios.de
Sonata
- Description: Elegant GTK+ MPD client
- Website: http://sonata.berlios.de
- Remarks: python application
Multimedia: Playback (XMMS 2)
XMMS 2
- Description: runs in the background playing music from its playlist.
- Website: http://xmms2.org
- Remarks: Has many front ends
Abraca
- Description: GTK+ XMMS2 client
- Website: http://abraca.xmms.se/
Multimedia: Playback
Audacious
- Description: A fork and rewrite of Beep Media Player
- Website: http://audacious-media-player.org
- Remarks: comes with a GTK+ UI
Aqualung
- Description: Cross-platform music player with gapless playback & LADSPA plugins
- Website: http://aqualung.factorial.hu/
DeaDBeeF
- Description: Ultimate Music Player For GNU/Linux
- Website: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
- Remark: It has Foobar-like interface
Potamus
- Description: Lightweight audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality
- Website: http://offog.org/code/potamus.html
VLC media player
- Description: A media player supporting a large number of multimedia formats
- Website: http://www.videolan.org
- Remarks: Qt4
Multimedia: Ripping Tools
Asunder
- Description: A simple GTK+-2 CD ripper and encoder
- Website: http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/
xfburn
- Description: An easy to use CD/DVD burning program. Supports images and data discs so far.
- Remarks: Xfce project
Bombono DVD
- Description: DVD authoring program
EasyTAG
- Description: GTK+ utility for editing MP2, MP3, MP4, FLAC, Ogg and other media tags
- Website: http://easytag.sourceforge.net
Gaupol
- Description: Editor for text-based subtitle files
- Website: http://home.gna.org/gaupol/
Gpodder
- Description: Podcast manager that syncs with portable audio devices
- Website: http://gpodder.berlios.de
- Remarks: python application
Graveman!
- Description: Graveman! is a GTK+ frontend for cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, sox, flac, dvd+rw-format/dvd+rw-tools and cdrdao
- Website: http://graveman.tuxfamily.org
Tagtool
- Description: A program to edit ID3 tags
- Website: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/
HandBrake
- Description: Multithreaded video transcoder
- Website: http://handbrake.fr/
Thoggen
- Description: Simple and beautiful DVD ripping based on GStreamer and GTK+
- Website: http://thoggen.net/
Transcoder
- Description: Simple video converter based on ffmpeg
- Website: http://transcoder84.sourceforge.net/
Transcoder Audio Edition
- Description: Simple audio converter based on ffmpeg
mhWaveEdit
- Description: Program for playing, editing, and recording sound files
- Website: http://gna.org/projects/mhwaveedit
Multimedia: Misc
Imagination
- Description: A lightweight and simple DVD and video slide-show maker
- Website: http://imagination.sourceforge.net/
Graphic/Photo Applications
Ristretto
- Description: Image viewer
- Remarks: Xfce project
Viewnior
- Description: a fast and simple image viewer similar to Ristretto
- Website: http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/
Comix
- Description: (archived) Image viewer
- Remarks: Discontinued, see MComix below
MComix
- Description: (archived) Image viewer
- Website: http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/
Dia
- Description: A diagramming tool
- Website: http://live.gnome.org/Dia
GImageView
- Description: Minimal ACDSee-like image viewer
- Website: http://gtkmmviewer.sourceforge.net/
Gcolor2
- Description: GTK+2 Color Selector
- Website: http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/
Geeqie
- Description: Lightweight image viewer. It was forked from GQview.
- Website: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/
gtkam
- Description: gtkam is the official GTK2 GUI for libgphoto2. Browse you photos from your camera.
Gimmage
- Description: Minimalistic image viewer
- Website: http://gimmage.berlios.de
Gimp
- Description: GNU Image Manipulation Program
- Website: http://www.gimp.org
gpicview
- Description: A Simple and Fast GTK+ Image Viewer
- Website: http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview
mtPaint
- Description: Lightweight GtK+2 image manipulation program
- Website: http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
GQview
- Description: An image browser for X
- Website: http://gqview.sourceforge.net
- Remarks: Does not currently appear to be under active development
Inkscape
- Description: Full featured open source SVG editor
- Website: http://www.inkscape.org
Mirage
- Description: Image viewer and editor
- Website: http://mirageiv.berlios.de/
- Remarks: python application
Development Applications
Diffuse
- Description: Graphical tool for merging and comparing text files
- Website: http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/
Geany
- Description: Fast and lightweight IDE
- Website: http://www.geany.org/
MadEdit
- Description: An Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets
- Website: http://madedit.sourceforge.net/
Heraia
- Description: Lightweight HEX-Editor
- Website: http://heraia.tuxfamily.org/
Medit
- Description: Programming text editor
- Website: http://mooedit.sourceforge.net
Meld
- Description: Graphical diff and merge tool
- Website: http://meld.sourceforge.net/
- Remark: written in Python (PyGTK)
Oxalis
- Description: Quick HTML pages creation with templates
- Website: http://sergejx.mysteria.cz/oxalis/
PIDA
- Description: An IDE that uses the tools already available rather than attempting to reinvent each one (embedding vim, using any version control system)
- Website: http://pida.co.uk/
- Remark: written in Python
SciTE
- Description: A free GTK+-based source code editor
- Website: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
vim/gvim
- Description: Versatile editor/IDE
- Website: http://vim.sf.net
Accessories
Mousepad
- Description: Lighweight text editor for Xfce
- Remarks: Xfce project
Squeeze
- Description: An archive manager for Xfce
- Website: http://squeeze.xfce.org/
- Remarks: Xfce project
Thunar
- Description: Modern, fast and intuitive file manager
- Website: http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/
- Remarks: Xfce project
Leafpad
- Description : Lightweight editor
- Website: http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/
- Remarks: An alternative editor for Mousepad
Xarchiver
- Description: Simple archive manager
- Website: http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/
File-Roller
- Description: Full featured archive manager
- Website: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/
- Remarks:
Has no dependencies on Gnome librariesNow depends on Nautilus
Cairo-Dock
- Description: A light, eye-candy, fully themable, MacOSX-like animated dock for any Linux desktop
- Remarks: Some plugins have many dependencies, needs composite extension
Catfish
- Description: GTK+ desktop search frontend
- Remarks: python application
Deducer
- Description: An intuitive, cross-platform graphical data analysis system
- Website: http://www.deducer.org/manual.html
- Remarks: A free easy to use alternative to proprietary software such as SPSS, JMP, and Minitab. It is based on JGR and should, generally, to be installed from with-in R
Ding
- Description: An Tk-based offline/desktop dictionary lookup program for X11/Linux, Unix, which contains a German-English dictionary and works with multiple databases/text files
emelFM2
- Description: An “orthodox” two-pane file manager
- Website: http://emelfm2.net/
Galculator
- Description: GTK+ based calculator
- Website: http://galculator.sourceforge.net
Google Gadgets
- Description: GTK+ or Qt4 based Widget-Engine
GPA
- Description: GNU Privacy Assistant is a graphical frontend for the GNU Privacy Guard (gpg)
- Website: http://www.gnupg.org
GPeriodic
- Description: Comprehensive periodic table of elements
- Website: http://gperiodic.seul.org/
GtkHash
- Description: Utility for computing message digests or checksums
- Website: http://gtkhash.sourceforge.net/
JGR
- Description: A unified GUI for the R programming language, based on Java
gfa
- Description: Small and fast address book
- Website: http://gfa.sourceforge.net
Figaro's Password Manager 2 (fpm2)
- Description: GTK+2 password manager tool
- Website: http://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/
OpenDict
- Description: Computer dictionary for several dictionary formats
- Website: http://opendict.idiles.com
- Remarks: wxPython application
Qalculate!
- Description: Multi-purpose desktop calculator
- Website: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/
PasswordMaker Java Edition
- Description: A Java-based cross-platform solution to create unique, secure passwords compatible with PasswordMaker.org
R Commander
- Description: A basic-statistics GUI for the R programming language, based on the tcltk toolkit
- Remarks: Needs to be installed from within R
RStudio
- Description: An intuitive and powerful integrated development environment (IDE) for R
- Website: http://www.rstudio.org/
Recordmydesktop
- Description: Very lightweight utility to record your desktop in OGV format
Rodent
- Description: Advanced file manager
- Website: http://xffm.org/
- Remarks: Formerly Xffm and part of Xfce
Skippy-XD
- Description: Standalone composited Exposé-like window picker for X11
- Website: http://code.google.com/p/skippy-xd/
Tasks
- Description: simple To Do list application
Tux Commander
- Description: Tux Commander is a windowed file manager with 2 panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.
- Website: http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/
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