Recommended applications

This page is intended to list applications recommended for use in a graphical (X) environment. See Recommended tools for commandline tools.

Desktop environment

 * Enlightenment
 * GNOME
 * KDE
 * LXDE - light-weight GTK+ DE
 * Razor-qt - light-weight Qt DE
 * Xfce

Window managers

 * FVWM
 * Openbox

Cross-toolkit themes

 * and

File managers

 * - light-weight Qt file manager
 * - light-weight GTK+ file manager
 * - light-weight Qt file manager
 * - light-weight GTK+ file manager

Optical disk burners

 * - feature-rich application to manage CD/DVD images
 * - KDE's fully-featured CD/DVD burner
 * - simple GTK+ disc burner
 * - GTK+ disc burner from Xfce

Terminal emulators

 * rxvt-unicode
 * rxvt-unicode

Chat clients

 * - Qt IRC client supporting a remote daemon
 * - Qt Jabber client

P2P

 * - Qt BitTorrent client
 * - BitTorrent client with GTK+, Qt, CLI, and web frontends

Web browsers

 * - open-source version of Google Chrome web browser
 * - lean minimalist web browser for resource-starved systems
 * - Mozilla's flagship web browser
 * - WebKit GTK+ web browser
 * - KDE WebKit web browser

Audio

 * MPD - music player daemon

Image viewers

 * - fast and light-weight image viewer
 * - light-weight GTK+ image viewer
 * - KDE image viewer
 * - light-weight Qt image viewer

Video

 * - fully-featured front-end for
 * - video player and streamer

Document readers

 * - ebook reader supporting many formats
 * - Qt CHM viewer
 * - light-weight tabbed PDF viewer
 * - highly customizable, minimalist, keyboard-driven document viewer
 * - KDE universal document viewer

Document management

 * - fully-featured ebook management application

Editors

 * - GUI version of the Vim text editor
 * - epub editor
 * - WYSIWYM frontend for LaTeX, DocBook, etc.
 * - Desktop publishing (DTP) and layout program
 * - KDE text editor

Note taking

 * - keep your notes, pictures, ideas, and information in baskets
 * - desktop wiki

Diff/Merge tools

 * - Qt frontend to diff3

IDEs

 * - fully-featured Python IDE using PyQt4
 * - light-weight C++/Qt IDE from the Qt Project

Astronomy

 * - OpenGL 3D space simulator
 * - Planetarium for amauter astronomers
 * - renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time