Best Lightweight Applications for Linux

This is the list of some of the best Lightweight applications available in Linux . I hope you like it . Please give your feedback in comments .

Browsers :

•  A multi-page graphical web browser
•  A cross platform web browser built using Qt and WebKit
•  The open-source project behind Google Chrome
•  A highly programmable web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner
•  A small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK
•  An advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser
•  A minimalist web browser based on tkhtml3
•  GTK+ web browser that uses the Gecko rendering engine
•  A text WWW browser, similar to Lynx
•  is a lightweight web browser based on Gtk and WebKit. It passes the ACID3 test
•  has its own rendering engine, is written in C and is extremely lightweight.
•  rekonq is a KDE browser based on Webkit. Its code is based on Nokia QtDemoBrowser, just like Arora.
•  is another lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the “Suck less philosophy” . Which means, the software is even more lightweight (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).
•  “web interface tools which adhere to the unix philosophy.”
•  Vimprobable is a WWW browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin available for Mozilla Firefox. It is based on the WebKit engine (using GTK bindings)

Email Clients :

 

•  is another powerful, and user-friendly text-based mail and news client.
•  is a small but very powerful text-based mail client.
•  is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use GTK based e-mail client
•  is a user-friendly, lightweight, and fast GTK based email client.
•  is yet another powerful, text-based mail client; it is still under development.

Instant Messengers :

 

•  is a way to use other IM to your IRC client .
•  is a curses based fork of Centericq which supports several protocols.
•  is a Python/GTK+ instant messenger for the Windows Live Messenger network.
• Finch is a curses based version of Pidgin.
•  is a multiprotocol instant messenger.

IRC :

 

•  Lightweight, simple, and powerfull.
•  is a modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting.
• Ultimate lightweight, literally `tail -f` the convo and `echo` back your replies.
•  is a file system interface to irc written in 
•  is a simple IRC client.
•  is an advanced IRC client based on ircII.
•  is a fast, light & extensible curses-based IRC client.
•  is a GTK+ X client with Perl and Python scripting support.
•  is a frontend for  that opens a new terminal for each channel (depends on  by default)

Torrent Clients :

 

•  User-friendly BitTorrent client written in Python and wrapped with PyGTK
• The closest open source (GNU GPL v2 license) equivalent to µtorrent 
• Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client 
• Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with (GTK+) GUI and CLI front-ends 
•  An advanced, lightweight CLI download manager that supports many protocols including bittorrent and metalink

Audio Players :

 

•  is very feature-rich GTK2 client for mpd, inspired by Rhythmbox 
•  Music Player is a very feature-rich ncurses-based music player. 
•  is a curses front-end for various audio players. 
• is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. 
•  is an ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, Ogg, and WAV formats. 
• is a curses client for mpd. 
•  is a GTK+ music manager that was a fork of Consonance Music Manager. 
•  is Qt4 based mpd client. 
• is an elegant GTK+ music client for mpd. 
•  A fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Hpux and near all other UNIX systems. Also decodes mp1 and mp2 files. 

Video Players :

 

•  is a simple GTK-based GUI for  without heavy Gnome dependencies
•  is a complete frontend for mplayer.

Image Editors :

 

•  is a graphic editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.

Image Viewers :

 

•  is a fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2 .
•  is a simple and fast image viewer for X. Made by the developers of LXDE
•  is an image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree.
•  is a lightweight image browser and viewer (fork of GQview), with additional functionality like RAW files view.
•  is a fast and simple GTK+ image viewer.
•  is a fast and lightweight picture-viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.
•  (Quick Image Viewer) is a very small and fast gdk/Imlib image viewer.
•  Viewnior is a simple, fast image viewer with a minimalistic GTK2 interface.
•   is a shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.

Calendars :

 

• Calcurse is a curses calendar and scheduling system.
•  is a highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.
•  is an curses front-end to Remind.
•  is a Python text and graphical frontend to Remind.

PDF Tools:

•  is a lightweight PDF viewer with VIM key bindings.
•  is a free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries.
•  is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. It is one of the lightest available.
•  is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
•  is another lightweight PDF viewer similar to apvlv, only lighter

Text Editors:

 

•  a minimalist and flexible programming environment by Rob Pike.
•  is an Early AdVanced EditoR.
•  is a text editor using the GTK+ 2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.
•  is a notepad clone for GTK+ 2.x that emphasizes simplicity.
•  is intended to be a useful programming and around-programming text editor.
•  is a simple text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad.
•  is an easy-to-use text editor, with on-screen key binding information, based on pine’s pico editor.
•  is a great distractionless PyGTK text editor, a clone of the infamous WriteRoom
•  a graphical text editor by Rob Pike (still used by Ken Thompson and others).
• Vi, , gVim, the classic vi text editor.

Word Processors:

 

•  is a full-featured word processor, there is also an even lighter version in the AUR, Abiword-light.
•  is a dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files
•  a word processor for processing words .

Todo List Managers:

 

 

•  manages your Todo list from the command line.

File Managers:

 

•  is file manager that implements the popular two-pane design.
•  is a console-based, dual-paned, file manager.
•  is a lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and can optionally manage the desktop background.
•  is a console based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features.
•  is a small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels.
•  is fast and responsive with a good start up time and directory load time.
• is a ncurses based two-pane file manager with vi like keybindings.
•  X File Explorer (Xfe) is an MS-Explorer or Commander like file manager for X.

GUI Compression Tools:

 

•  is a modern and advanced archive manager.
•  is a GTK+ 2 front-end for various command line archiving tools.
• is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK+ 2.

CD/DVD Burning Tools:

 

•  is a graphical frontend of cdrkit/cdrtools, cdrdao, mkisofs and growisofs.

Login managers:

 

•  provides an ultra-minimalistic, yet full-featured login manager written in bash.
•  provides a lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.
•  is ultralight and very configurable graphical login independent on X Windows.

Monitors:

 

•  is a lightweight, scriptable system monitor.
•  is a simple, ncurses interactive process viewer.

Panels:

 

•  (BitMap Panel) is a lightweight, NETWM compliant panel for the X11 system.
•  is a lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel.
•  is a lightweight X11 desktop panel (part of LXDE).
•  is a lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C (HOWTO).
•  is a simple panel/taskbar intentionally made for openbox3, but should also work with other window managers (HOWTO).
•  is a highly configurable, modular panel for X.

Terminals:

 

•  is a light and easy to use libvte based X Terminal Emulator.
•  is a tabbed, VTE-based terminal emulator with a small footprint.
•  is a highly extendable unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, quake-style dropdown, pseudo-transparency, and is extensible with perl.
•  is a terminal emulator based on GTK+ and VTE.
•  is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.
•  xvt is an X terminal-emulator that is designed to be more or less compatible with xterm while using much less swap space.

Trays:

 

• Docker is a docking application which acts as a system tray.
•  is a stand-alone system tray.
•  swallows GTK+ 1.2/2.x application docklets, and KDE docklets.

Window managers:

 

•  is a floating and tiling window manager initially based on a dwm code rewriting.
•  is an extra light dynamic window manager which is configured by directly editing the source(which itself is less than 2000 SLOC).
• a very lightweight and extremely beautiful WM .
•  is a minimalist floating window manager with an installed size of only 0.07 MB.
•  is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager.
•  is a lightweight, flexible and highly-configurable Window Manager.
•  i3 is a manual tiling window manager which places client into containers.Containers can be stacked (like wmii) or tabbed (like ion3). i3 also supports floating windows.
•  is a very lightweight window manager which has features from dwm and ratpoison. Uses about 350-400KB of memory.
•  is another lightweight and highly configurable window manager.
•  is small and easily configurable window manager.
•  is a keyboard-oriented, customizable lightweight window manager, modelled after GNU Screen.
•  is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It is written in C and configured with a text configuration file.
•  is a semi-automatic tiling window manager with a strong focus on easy but customizable handling and look and feel.
•  is a tiny window manager that was created as an exercise in minimalism, and it is also helpful in learning some of the very basics of creating a window manager. It is around 50 lines of C, and there is a Python version using python-xlib.
•  is a classic, customizable and very lightweight window manager; possibly the first designed for X11.
• is an elegant, fast and usable OpenStep implementation.
•  is a desktop environment much lighter but similar to GNOME. It includes the xfwm4 window manager.
•  is a tiling window manager for X, written and configured in Haskell.
•  (Window Manager From Scratch) is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X.

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