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A collection of simple programs.
Operating Systems
Installation of Operating Systems
Web browser
links console based simple web browser
netsurf small web browser with
CSS support
badwolf minimalist and privacy-oriented WebKitGTK+ browser
Mail Programs
Text editors
Comparison
e3 ultra lightweight editor without dependencies, written in assembly.
mg Small, fast, and portable Emacs-like editor.
dte Small, easy to use editor with multi-tabbed interface, syntax highlighting
nano editor with on-screen key bindings help and syntax highlighting
joe editor with Wordstar keybindings
mcedit easy to use editor that comes with Midnight Commander
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nvi Reimplementation of vi with multibyte support
vim Advanced, extensible vi editor with tons of (optional) features
tilde An intuitive text editor for the terminal
ne A simple to use editor
Productivity
mdp A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
mupdf lightweight document viewer and toolkit, supports PDF, XPS, EPUB,
abiword Full-featured graphical word processor.
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gummi Lightweight LaTeX GTK-based editor with continuous preview mode
File managers
Comparison
mc Midnight Commander - a free N….. Commander Clone
vifm a curses based Vim-like file manager
nnn a lightweight terminal file manager
fff a simple file manager written in bash
ranger a console file manager written in python
lf a terminal file manager written in Go
joshuto a ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.
Terminal Emulators
Comparison
mlterm a multilingual terminal emulator on X11. It has a low memory footprint and offers configuration by command line and a graphical tool.
xterm The default terminal emulator on X11. Is has support for unicode and truetype fonts. Configuration via
.Xresources
or popup menu. Memory footprint is moderate.
urxvt highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled terminal emulator
Window managers
Stacking
comparison
cwm a lightweight and efficient stacking window manager for X11
fluxbox very lightweight window manager, easy to handle but yet full of features
icewm lightweight window manager which resembles the UI of Windows 95
openbox highly configurable stacking window manager
windowmaker a window manager designed to emulate NeXTSTEP's
GUI
twm very simple window manager, included in the Xorg distribution
fvwm3 Next generation of fvwm
jwm window manager with an interface similar to Windows 98
Tiling
comparison
i3 dynamic and tiling window manager, completely written from scratch.
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awesome a highly configurable window manager
bspwm a very lightweight tiling window manager
ratpoison tiling wm which manages windows without using a mouse
spectrwm a small dynamic tiling window manager with sane defaults
rofi a window switcher, Application launcher and dmenu replacement
xtrlock minimal X display lock program
ncdu simple disk usage analyzer with a ncurses interface
start.txt · Last modified: 2022/05/20 14:31 by senioradmin