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Lightweight Linux Apps

Here i will list light apps. I will not include cli apps. I will keep editing this. help make this list better.

Terminal

  • xterm (installed on all distros)
  • lxterminal
  • mrxvt
  • xfce-terminal
  • mterminal

Web browser.

  • midori
  • arora
  • conkeror
  • Dooble
  • reKonq
  • epiphany
  • dillo
  • uzbl (if you can work out the vi-like controls)
  • Kazehakase

Office

  • Abiword (wordprocessor)
  • GNUmeric (spreadsheet)
  • scribus (desktop publishing)
  • xpdf
  • mupdf
  • apvlv
  • epdfviewer
  • leafpad (text editor)
  • gvim
  • nano (really a cli tool but you’ll hardly notice)

Multimedia

  • gnome-mplayer
  • smplayer
  • DeaDBeeF (foobar2000 like)
  • Banshee (not particular lightwight – but my personal favorite)
  • Kaffeine
  • mpd + (quod libet, sonata, pympd, Xfmpc) but i don’t recommend this type of daemon/client setup as it never works right.
  • Xfburm (disc burning)

IM

  • empaphy (ubuntu default)
  • emesene (MSN only)
  • Sim-IM (Multi protocol)
  • Ayttm (my personal favorite lighweight multi protocol IM)
  • LostIRC
  • WeeChat (irc)

Torrents

  • Deluge
  • transmission (Ubuntu default)
  • Qbittoorent

Image Editors

  • mtpaint
  • Xpaint
  • GNUpaint

Image Viewers

  • feh
  • ristretto
  • mirage

Filemanager

  • Thunar
  • pcmanFM
  • Rox-filer

Compression

  • Squeeze
  • Xarchive
  • Xarchiver

Process monitors

  • htop (ncurses but userfriendly)
  • lxmonitor

WM/DE
I will not include tiling managers.

  • Xfce4 (the most popular “lightweight” DE – currently sufferering from feature creep – closer to middle weight)
  • fluxbox (I was a heavy user of this WM for a while)
  • fvwm (currently my favorite lightweight WM)
  • TWM (comes with Xorg – very featureless)
  • Windowmaker (inspired by NEXTstep – i could never get hang of those boxes)
  • JWM (used as default for DamnSmallLinux Puppy and Slitaz)
  • IceWM (lightweight, used in the older eeePCs i think)
  • LXDE
  • openbox (you can replace with WM with the gnome default (metacity)) also works standalone.

For more check Arch Wiki List.

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