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Provides a list of lightweight software for those who wish to use programs that require less computer resources.

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Internet

BitTorrent Clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of BitTorrent clients
  • aria2 — Command-line download manager that supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and MetaLink protocols
http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ || aria2
  • Deluge — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in Python and wrapped with PyGTK
http://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge
  • qBittorrent — The closest open source (GNU GPL v2 license) equivalent to µtorrent
http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/ || qbittorrent
  • rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ || rtorrent
  • Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with (GTK+) GUI and CLI front-ends
http://www.transmissionbt.com/ || transmission

Email clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of e-mail clients

Console

  • Alpine — The Apache-licensed PINE (a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages)
http://www.washington.edu/alpine || alpine
  • mutt — Small but very powerful text-based mail client.
http://www.mutt.org/ || mutt

X11

http://www.claws-mail.org/ || claws-mail
  • Sylpheed — Lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client (GTK)
http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ || sylpheed
  • Postler — simple desktop mail client built in vala.
http://git.xfce.org/apps/postler || postler

Instant Messengers

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of instant messaging clients
http://www.bitlbee.org/ || bitlbee
  • CenterIM — A curses based fork of Centericq which supports several protocols
http://www.centerim.org/ || centerim
  • Emesene — A Python/GTK+ instant messenger for the Windows Live Messenger network
http://www.emesene.org/ || emesene
  • Finch — A curses based version of Pidgin
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch || finch
  • Pidgin — A multiprotocol instant messenger
http://www.pidgin.im/ || pidgin

IRC

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of Internet_Relay_Chat_clients
  • Conspire — Lightweight, simple, and powerful
http://nenolod.net/ || conspire
  • Irssi — A modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting
http://irssi.org/ || irssi
  • LostIRC — A simple IRC client
http://lostirc.sourceforge.net || lostirc
  • WeeChat — A fast, light & extensible curses-based IRC client
http://weechat.org/ || weechat
  • XChat — A GTK+ X client with Perl and Python scripting support
http://xchat.org || xchat

Network Managers

  • wicd — Manages wireless and wired interfaces, requiring fewer dependencies than other network managers. In addition to GUI interfaces, a curses version is also available.
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ || wicd

News Aggregators

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of feed aggregators
  • Canto — A ncurses RSS aggregator
http://codezen.org/canto/ || canto
  • Newsbeuter — A ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to mutt. Does not use the traditional 3 panes setup
http://www.newsbeuter.org/ || newsbeuter
  • Snownews — Text mode RSS newsreader
http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/ || snownews

Web Browsers

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of web browsers
  • Arora — A cross platform web browser built using Qt and WebKit
http://code.google.com/p/arora/ || arora
  • Chromium-browser — The middleweight, open-source project behind Google Chrome
http://code.google.com/chromium/ || chromium
  • Dillo — A small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK
http://www.dillo.org/ || dillo
  • ELinks — An advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser
http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks
  • Jumanji — A highly customizable and functional web browser
http://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji || jumanji
  • Links — A text WWW browser, similar to Lynx
http://links.twibright.com/ || links
  • Midori — A lightweight web browser based on Gtk and WebKit. It passes the ACID3 test
http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html || midori
  • Uzbl — Web interface tools which adhere to the unix philosophy
http://www.uzbl.org/ || uzbl-browser

Multimedia

Audio Players

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of audio player software
  • DeaDBeeF — A light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only and as well GTK2-gui, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ || deadbeef
  • Goggles Music Manager — A music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support
http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/ || gogglesmm
  • Moc — A ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, Ogg, and WAV formats
http://moc.daper.net/ || moc
  • Potamus — A lightweight, intuitive GTK+ audio player with an emphasis on high audio quality
http://offog.org/code/potamus.html || potamus
  • Pragha — A GTK+ music manager that was a fork of Consonance Music Manager
http://pragha.wikispaces.com/ || pragha
  • Mpg123 — A fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Hpux and near all other UNIX systems. Also decodes mp1 and mp2 files
http://www.mpg123.de/ || mpg123

MPD clients:

  • Ario — A very feature-rich GTK2 client for mpd, inspired by Rhythmbox
http://ario-player.sourceforge.net/ || ario
  • ncmpc — A curses client for mpd
http://hem.bredband.net/kaw/ncmpc/ || ncmpc
  • ncmpcpp — An almost exact clone of ncmpc with some new features
http://unkart.ovh.org/ncmpcpp/ || ncmpcpp
  • QmpdClient — A Qt4 based mpd client
http://bitcheese.net/wiki/QMPDClient || qmpdclient
  • Sonata — An elegant GTK+ music client for mpd
http://sonata.berlios.de/ || sonata

Image Editors

  • mtPaint — A a graphic editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ || mtpaint

Image Viewers

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of image viewers
  • Feh — A fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2
http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/ || feh
  • GpicView — A simple and fast image viewer for X. Made by the developers of LXDE
http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || gpicview
  • Geeqie — An image browser/viewer fork of GQview. Adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files
http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/ || geeqie
  • Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel
http://mirageiv.berlios.de || mirage
  • Ristretto — A fast and lightweight picture-viewer for the Xfce desktop environment
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/ristretto || ristretto
  • Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK2 viewer featuring support for flip, rotate, animations and configurable mouse actions
http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/about.html || viewnior
  • Neonview — A fast and lightweight image viewer that uses C and GTK2 which support many image formats
http://www.tuxarena.com/neonview/ || neonview

Video Players

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of video player software
  • Gnome-Mplayer — A simple GTK-based GUI for mplayer without GNOME dependencies
http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/gnomemplayer || gnome-mplayer
  • mplayer — Support a complete and versatile array of video/audio formats
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mplayer
  • VLC media player — A middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio/video formats
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc
  • Xnoise — A GTK+ media player for both audio and video with "a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.". Uses gstreamer.
http://www.xnoise-media-player.com/ || xnoise

Office

Calendars

  • Calcurse — A text-based curses calendar and scheduling system
http://calcurse.org/ || calcurse

PDF Tools

  • ePDFView — A free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries
http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/ || epdfview
  • Xpdf — A viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ || xpdf

Text Editors

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of text editors
  • Beaver — An Early AdVanced EditoR
http://www.nongnu.org/beaver/ || beaver
  • Geany — A text editor using the GTK+ 2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment
http://www.geany.org || geany
  • Leafpad — A notepad clone for GTK+ 2.x that emphasizes simplicity
http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ || leafpad
  • medit — A lightweight IDE text editor featuring support for tabs, sessions, plugins and syntax highlighting
http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/ || medit
  • Mousepad — A simple text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad
http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/ || mousepad
  • nano — A console text editor based with on-screen key binding help, a free clone of pico
http://www.nano-editor.org/ || nano
  • PyRoom — A great distractionless PyGTK text editor, a clone of the infamous WriteRoom
http://pyroom.org/ || pyroom
  • Vim — The improved classic vi text editor
http://www.vim.org/ || vim

Word Processors

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of word processors
  • Abiword — A full-featured word processor
http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword
  • txt2tags — A dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files
http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net || txt2tags

System

File Managers

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of file managers
  • emelFM2 — A file manager that implements the popular two-panel design
http://emelfm2.net/ || emelfm2
http://www.midnight-commander.org || mc
  • PCManFM — A lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and can optionally manage the desktop background
http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/ || pcmanfm
  • ROX-Filer — A small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels
http://rox.sourceforge.net || rox
  • Thunar — Can be run as a daemon with excellent start up and directory load times. Features support for customizable actions
http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html || thunar
  • Xfe — A MS-Explorer or Commander like file manager for X
http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/index.php/ || xfe
  • qtfm — A small, lightweight filemanager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt and works great with minimal desktop environments like Openbox
http://www.qtfm.org/ || qtfm

GUI Compression Tools

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of file archivers
  • Squeeze — A modern and advanced archive manager
http://squeeze.xfce.org/ || squeeze
  • Xarchiver — A lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK+ 2. At the time of writing, it appears to be the most functional and up to date of the three tools listed here
http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/ || xarchiver

CD/DVD Burning Tools

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of disc authoring software
  • recorder — Simple frontend to cdrkit/cdrtools, cdrdao, mkisofs and growisofs with limited options and preferences
http://code.google.com/p/recorder/ || recorder
  • Xfburn — Simple frontend to the libburnia libraries with support for CD/DVD(-RW), ISO images and BurnFree
http://www.xfce.org/projects/xfburn/ || xfburn

Login managers

  • SLiM — A lightweight and elegant graphical login solution
http://slim.berlios.de/ || slim

Monitors

  • Conky — A lightweight, scriptable system monitor
http://conky.sourceforge.net/ || conky
  • Htop — A simple, ncurses interactive process viewer
http://htop.sourceforge.net/ || htop
  • LXTask — A lightweight task manager for LXDE
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask || lxtask

Panels

  • Bmpanel — A lightweight, NETWM compliant panel for the X11 system
http://nsf.110mb.com/bmpanel/ || bmpanel
  • fbpanel — A lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel
http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net || fbpanel
  • LXPanel — A lightweight X11 desktop panel (part of LXDE)
http://lxde.org/ || lxpanel
  • PyPanel — A lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C
http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/ || pypanel
  • Tint2 — A simple panel/taskbar intentionally made for openbox3, but should also work with other window managers
http://code.google.com/p/tint2/ || tint2


Terminals

  • ROXTerm — A tabbed, VTE-based terminal emulator with a small footprint
http://rox.sourceforge.net || roxterm
  • urxvt — A highly extendable unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, quake-style dropdown, pseudo-transparency, and is extensible with perl
http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode || rxvt-unicode
  • Sakura — A terminal emulator based on GTK+ and VTE
http://www.pleyades.net/david/sakura.php || sakura
  • Xterm — A terminal emulator for the X Window System
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ || xterm
  • Tilda — A Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life (to name a few), where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop until a key is pressed
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tilda/files/ || tilda
  • Stjerm — is a GTK+-based drop-down terminal emulator. Stjerm sets itself apart from similar programs by providing a minimalistic interface combined with a small file size, lightweight memory usage and easy integration with composite window managers such as Compiz.
http://code.google.com/p/stjerm-terminal-emulator/downloads/list ||

Trays

http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net || stalonetray


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