Recommended applications
This page is intended to list Article description::applications recommended for use in a graphical (X) environment. See Recommended tools for commandline tools.
Note
This is intended as a "best of kind" list. Use eix or browse packages.gentoo.org to find all applications available on Gentoo.
This is intended as a "best of kind" list. Use eix or browse packages.gentoo.org to find all applications available on Gentoo.
Desktop environment
- Enlightenment — an eye-candy, compositing and stacking window manager that is released under the permissive BSD License.
- FVWM-Crystal — an easy to use, powerful and pretty desktop environment for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems.
- GNOME — a feature-rich desktop environment provided by the GNOME project.
- KDE — a free software community, producing a wide range of applications including the popular Plasma desktop environment.
- Lumina — a lightweight desktop environment, free of D-Bus and *kit, designed to have as few system dependencies and requirements as possible.
- LXDE
- LXQt — a lightweight desktop environment based on the Qt toolkit.
- MATE — a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop environment that is available on Gentoo.
- Xfce — a lightweight desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems.
Window managers
- Awesome — a highly configurable, next generation, dynamic window manager for X.
- Bspwm — a lightweight, tiling, minimalist window manager that is written in C and represents its windows as leaves on a binary tree.
- Dwm — a dynamic window manager for X11.
- Fluxbox — an open-source stacking window manager for X11 that was originally forked from Blackbox.
- FVWM — a stacking window manager for X11.
- I3 — a minimalist tiling window manager, completely written from scratch.
- Sway — an open-source Wayland compositor that is designed to be compatible with the i3 window manager.
- Openbox — a highly configurable, next generation, stacking window manager for X11 with extensive standards support.
- Sawfish — an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language.
Taskbars / Panels
- lxde-base/lxpanel – Lightweight X11 desktop panel for LXDE, also works with other WMs
- x11-misc/fbpanel
- Tint2 — a lightweight panel/taskbar specifically made for Openbox, but it can also work with other window managers.
- x11-misc/wbar – quick launch bar
Cross-toolkit themes
Desktop utilities
Clipboard managers
File managers
- kde-apps/dolphin – A KDE file manager focusing on usability
- kde-misc/krusader – Advanced twin-panel (commander-style) file-manager with many extras
- kde-apps/konqueror
- PCManFM — a powerful, yet lightweight file manager application written by Hong Jen Yee.
- x11-misc/spacefm – A multi-panel tabbed file manager
- xfce-base/thunar
- x11-misc/xfe – Another Xfce based file explorer
Application launchers
- x11-misc/rofi – A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement
- x11-misc/dmenu – A generic, highly customisable, and efficient menu for the X Window System
Optical disk burners
- kde-apps/k3b – KDE's fully-featured CD/DVD burner
- app-cdr/xfburn – GTK disc burner from Xfce
- app-cdr/brasero – CD/DVD burning application for the GNOME desktop
Terminal emulators
- kde-apps/konsole – KDE's terminal emulator
- kde-misc/yakuake – Quake-style dropdown terminal based on kde-apps/konsole
- lxde-base/lxterminal – Lightweight vte-based tabbed terminal emulator for LXDE and other WMs
- Rxvt-unicode — a fast and lightweight terminal emulator with Xft and Unicode support.
- x11-terms/terminator – Multiple GNOME terminals in one window
- x11-terms/tilda
- x11-terms/terminology
- x11-terms/xfce4-terminal
- x11-terms/alacritty - Terminal emulator focused on simplicity and performance
Internet
Chat clients
- WebRTC[1][2] – implemented in Firefox
- net-im/qtox Qt5-based Tox client
- Pidgin — an easy to use and free chat client that supports AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, IRC, XMPP, and more chat networks all at once.
- net-im/psi – Qt Jabber client
- HexChat — a graphical IRC client based on XChat.
- net-irc/quassel – Qt IRC client supporting a remote daemon
Email clients
- mail-client/trojita – A fast Qt IMAP e-mail client
- Claws Mail — a mail client forked from Sylpheed.
- Thunderbird — Mozilla's solution to the e-mail client.
P2P
- net-p2p/qbittorrent – Qt BitTorrent client
- net-p2p/transmission – BitTorrent client with GTK, Qt, CLI, and web front-ends
- RTorrent — a highly configurable torrent client based on libtorrent and ncurses.
- Deluge — an open-source, cross platform BitTorrent client.
Web browsers
- Chromium — the open source version of Google's Chrome web browser.
- www-client/dillo – lean minimalist web browser for resource-starved systems
- Falkon — a lightweight web browser based on QtWebEngine.
- Firefox — Mozilla's solution to the web browser.
- Qutebrowser — a web browser with vim-style key bindings based off the QtWebKit (or the QtWebEngine in its latest release).
Multimedia
Audio
- MPD — a flexible, server-side application for playing music.
- media-sound/qmmp – Qt-based audio player with Winamp/XMMS skins support
- media-sound/rhythmbox – Rhythmbox is a music playing application for GNOME framework
- media-sound/clementine – Amarok 1.4 based audio player
- Audacious — a media player similar to XMMS, and Winamp.
- media-sound/gmusicbrowser – An open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/Ogg/FLAC files
- media-sound/guayadeque – Music management program designed for all music enthusiasts
- media-sound/moc – Music On Console: ncurses interface for playing audio files
Image viewers
- display — part of media-gfx/imagemagick
- media-gfx/eog – Image viewer and browser for GNOME
- kde-apps/gwenview – KDE image viewer
- Feh — an open-source image viewer that is most aimed at command-line users.
- media-gfx/geeqie – light-weight GTK image viewer
- media-gfx/gpicview – GTK LXDE light-weight image viewer
- media-gfx/gthumb – Image viewer and browser for GNOME
- media-gfx/fbida – Image viewers for the framebuffer console (fbi) and X11 (ida)
- media-gfx/nomacs – light-weight Qt image viewer
Photography
- Darktable — a photography workflow application and RAW developer.
- media-gfx/digikam – powerful, feature-rich KDE digital photo management application
- media-gfx/hugin – graphical user interface for the creation & processing of panoramic images
- media-gfx/luminance-hdr – graphical user interface for high dynamic range image composition and processing
- media-gfx/gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program
Video
- Mpv — a free and open source command-line media player.
- media-video/smplayer – fully-featured Qt front-end for media-video/mplayer
- VLC — a wildly popular, cross platform video player and streamer
3D
- Blender — free and open-source 3D computer graphics software
Documents
Document readers
- app-text/apvlv – Alf's PDF Viewer Like Vim
- app-text/coolreader – E-book reader with a Qt interface
- app-text/evince – Simple document viewer for GNOME
- Foliate — a free and open-source eBook reader that supports EPUB, Mobipocket, Kindle, FictionBook, and comic book archive formats. – E-book reader with highlight and note-taking abilities and multiple themes (including gruvbox and sepia and solarized)
- app-text/fbreader – E-book reader supporting many formats
- app-text/kchmviewer – Qt CHM viewer
- app-text/llpp – a graphical PDF viewer which aims to superficially resemble less(1)
- MuPDF — a free and open-source software framework written in C that implements a PDF, XPS, and EPUB parsing and rendering engine.
- app-text/qpdfview – light-weight tabbed PDF viewer with a Qt5 interface
- Zathura — a free, plugin-based document viewer.
- kde-apps/okular – KDE universal document viewer
Document management
- app-text/calibre – fully-featured ebook management application
Editors
- GVim — a text editor based on the vi text editor.
- Emacs — a class of powerful, extensible, self-documenting text editors.
- app-editors/scite – A very powerful editor for programmers
- Vim — a text editor based on the vi text editor.
- app-editors/neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility.
- app-office/lyx – WYSIWYM frontend for LaTeX, DocBook, etc.
- app-office/scribus – Desktop publishing (DTP) and layout program
- app-text/sigil – epub editor
- kde-apps/kate – KDE text editor
- app-editors/gedit – A text editor for the GNOME desktop
Note taking
- x11-misc/zim – desktop wiki
Office suites
- app-office/abiword – light and fast cross platform word processor
- app-office/calligra
- Libreoffice — a full office productivity suite.
Programming
Diff/Merge tools
- dev-util/meld
- dev-util/quilt – quilt patch manager
- kde-misc/kdiff3 – Qt frontend to diff3
- kde-apps/kompare
IDEs
- app-editors/bluefish – GTK HTML editor for the experienced web designer or programmer
- dev-util/codeblocks – The open source, cross platform, free C++ IDE
- dev-util/eric – fully-featured Python IDE using PyQt5
- dev-util/geany – GTK based fast and lightweight IDE supporting many different languages
- dev-util/kdevelop – Supporting KF5/Qt, C/C++ and much more
- dev-qt/qt-creator – light-weight C++/Qt IDE from the Qt Project
Science
Astronomy
- sci-astronomy/celestia – OpenGL 3D space simulator
- sci-astronomy/stellarium – renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time
Nanoscience
- sci-visualization/gwyddion – View, convert, and analzye scanning microscopy data (e.g. atomic force microscopy)
- sci-electronics/klayout – View, edit, and convert electron beam lithography files
Network
Network Management
- Dhcpcd-ui — a Qt and GTK monitor and configuration graphical user interface for dhcpcd.
- Netifrc — Gentoo's default framework for configuring and managing network interfaces on systems running OpenRC.
- systemd-networkd
- Iwd — an up-and-coming wireless daemon for Linux.
- Wpa_supplicant — a wifi supplicant to handle network authentication.
File Sharing
See also
- Games — a landing page for many of the games (especially open source variants) available in Gentoo's main ebuild repository.
- Qt Desktop applications — a list of recommendations for a light-weight, non-KDE, Qt-only desktop environment
References
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