====== A collection of simple programs. ======

===== Contact =====

  * **Website**: https://simpletools.info
  * **Mastodon**: https://fosstodon.org/@simpletools


===== About Simple Tools =====

  * [[About|What this site is about and which criteria we use]]
  * [[:how_we_measure|How we measure]]
  * [[Code of Conduct]]
  * [[How to participate]]

===== Operating Systems =====

  * [[Alpine Linux]]
  * [[Devuan]]
  * [[Antix]]
  * [[Artix]]
  * [[OpenBSD]]

===== Installation of Operating Systems =====

  * [[osinstallation:fedora|Minimal installation of Fedora 38]]
  * [[osinstallation:rocky|Minimal installation of Rocky / Alma / RHEL 9]]
  * [[osinstallation:debian11runit|Debian 11 with the runit init system]]

===== Web browser =====

  * [[browser:links]] console based simple web browser
  * [[browser:netsurf]] small web browser with CSS support
  * [[browser:badwolf]] minimalist and privacy-oriented WebKitGTK+ browser

===== Mail Programs =====

  * [[mutt]]
  * [[Claws Mail]]


===== Text editors =====
[[editors:Comparison]]

  * [[editors:e3]] ultra lightweight editor without dependencies, written in assembly.
  * [[editors:mg]] Small, fast, and portable Emacs-like editor.
  * [[editors:dte]] Small, easy to use editor with multi-tabbed interface, syntax highlighting
  * [[editors:nano]] editor with on-screen key bindings help and syntax highlighting
  * [[editors:joe]] editor with Wordstar keybindings
  * [[editors:mcedit]] easy to use editor that comes with Midnight Commander
  * [[editors:vi]]  The traditional vi
  * [[editors:nvi]]  Reimplementation of vi with multibyte support
  * [[editors:vim]]  Advanced, extensible vi editor with tons of (optional) features
  * [[editors:tilde]] An intuitive text editor for the terminal
  * [[editors:ne]] A simple to use editor
===== Productivity =====
  * [[productivity:mdp]] A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
  * [[productivity:mupdf]] lightweight document viewer and toolkit, supports PDF, XPS, EPUB, 
  * [[productivity:abiword]] Full-featured graphical word processor.
  * [[productivity:gnumeric]] spreadsheet program
  * [[productivity:gummi]]  Lightweight LaTeX GTK-based editor with continuous preview mode

===== File managers =====
[[filemanager:Comparison]]

  * [[filemanager:mc]] Midnight Commander - a free N..... Commander Clone
  * [[filemanager:vifm]] a curses based Vim-like file manager
  * [[filemanager:nnn]] a lightweight terminal file manager
  * [[filemanager:fff]] a simple file manager written in bash
  * [[filemanager:ranger]] a console file manager written in python
  * [[filemanager:lf]] a terminal file manager written in Go
  * [[filemanager:joshuto]] a ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.


===== Terminal Emulators ===== 
[[terminal:Comparison]]
  * **[[terminal:mlterm]]** a multilingual terminal emulator on X11. It has a low memory footprint and offers configuration by command line and a graphical tool.
  * [[terminal: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.
  * [[terminal:urxvt]] highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled terminal emulator


===== Window managers =====

==== Stacking ====
[[wm:stacking:comparison]]

  * [[wm:stacking:cwm]]  a lightweight and efficient  stacking window manager for X11
  * [[wm:stacking:fluxbox]] very lightweight window manager,  easy to handle but yet full of features
  * [[wm:stacking:icewm]] lightweight window manager which resembles the UI of Windows 95
  * [[wm:stacking:openbox]] highly configurable stacking window manager 
  * [[wm:stacking:windowmaker]] a window manager designed to emulate NeXTSTEP's GUI 
  * [[wm:stacking:twm]] very simple window manager, included in the Xorg distribution 
  * [[wm:stacking:fvwm3]] Next generation of fvwm 
  * [[wm:stacking:jwm]]  window manager with an interface similar to Windows 98



==== Tiling ====
[[wm:tiling:comparison]]

  * [[wm:tiling:i3]] [[glossary#dynamic_window_manager|dynamic]] and tiling window manager, completely written from scratch.
  * [[wm:tiling:herbstluftwm]] a manual tiling window manager
  * [[wm:tiling:awesome]] a highly configurable window manager
  * [[wm:tiling:bspwm]] a very lightweight tiling window manager
  * [[wm:tiling:ratpoison]] tiling wm which manages windows without using a mouse
  * [[wm:tiling:spectrwm]] a small dynamic tiling window manager with sane defaults

===== Misc. Tools =====

  * [[misc:rofi]] a window switcher, Application launcher and dmenu replacement
  * [[misc:xtrlock]] minimal X display lock program
  * [[misc:ncdu]] simple disk usage analyzer with a ncurses interface