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books An awesome list of customization tools for your UN*X/Linux desktop.

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Desktop customization tools

Lists tools and software for customizing Unix-like desktop environments to improve user productivity and aesthetic appeal.

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File Manager

  • ranger

    A vim inspired filemanager for console

  • Thunar

    A modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment

  • PCManFM

    A lightweight Gtk+ based file manager for X Window

  • fff*

    simple file manager written by

  • Midnight Commander

    A terminal based file manager

Music Player

  • mpc

    Client for , responsible for telling lemonbar about the currently playing media

  • mpd

    A daemon for playing music of various formats with as client

  • cmus

    A small ncurses based music player

  • ncmpcpp

    An ncurses Music Player Daemon (MPD) client

  • Rhythmbox

    A Music Player which takes its inspiration from Apple's iTunes application

Music Visualizer

  • cava

    Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa (MPD and Pulseaudio)

  • mpdviz

    Console mpd visualizer like

  • nausea

    This is a simple Console audio spectrum visualizer, Work well with mpd daemon music player

Image Viewer

  • feh

    A lightweight image viewer

  • sxiv

    Simple X Image viewer like

  • n30f

    Image viewer to display an image in a borderless and transparent non-wm-managed window

  • gpicview

    A Simple and Fast Image Viewer for X

  • nitrogen

    A GUI background previewer and setter

System Info

  • neofetch

    A customizable system information written in Bash

  • screenfetch

    Bash screenshot information tool

  • ufetch

    Tiny system info for Unix-like operating systems

  • pfetch

    A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh

Text Editor

  • neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  • vim

    Vi IMproved, a programmer's text editor

  • Spacevim

    Community-driven modular vim distribution with ultimate vim configuration and many build-in features

  • Leafpad

    Leafpad is a simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity

Terminal

  • rxvt-unicode

    A customizable terminal emulator forked from

  • xterm

    The standard terminal emulator for the X Window System

  • st

    A simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less, with xft

  • dmenu

    A fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X

  • jgmenu

    Small X11 menu intended to be used with openbox and tint2

  • myGtkMenu

    GTK2, GTK3 standalone & lightweight menu written in C

  • rofi

    A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Panel

  • lemonbar

    A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb

  • polybar

    A fast and easy-to-use status bar

  • dzen2

    A general purpose messaging, notification and menuing program for X11

  • xmobar

    A minimalistic, mostly text-based status bar

  • tint2

    A lightweight panel/taskbar with support system try

Dock

  • Plank

    A simplest dock on the planet, famous dock for linux user

  • Cairo Dock

    A desktop interface that takes the shape of docks, desklets, panel, etc

Notification Daemon

  • dunst

    A lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments

Logout Screen

  • lxsession-logout

    A nice banner-style logout dialog for the LXDE

  • oblogout

    GTK/Cairo based logout box styled for openbox

  • clearine

    Beautiful logout UI for X11 window manager

Tweaks

  • wal

    Generate and change colorschemes on the fly

  • pywal

    Generate and change colorschemes on the fly. A rewrite in Python 3

  • wpgtk

    A powerful GTK+ frontend for pywal, adding features such as flexible templates and editing colorschemes

  • spicetify-cli

    Commandline tool to customize Spotify client

  • tintyourday

    Generate your config with Xresources color

  • obtgen

    Openbox theme generator

  • Shift

    An instantly window manager theme changer

  • colorfil

    Generate 16 color for Xresources colorscheme from one-color

  • colorls

    A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons

  • Cornora

    Simple Hotcorner Launcher for X

  • warnai

    Swiss army theme changer from .Xresources

  • Compton

    A compositor for X11

  • Oomox

    Generate themes and icons using oomox GUI

Screen Manager

  • lxrandr

    standard screen manager of LXDE

Others

  • colorls

    A Ruby script that colorizes the ls output with color and icons

  • exa

    A modern replacement for

  • ls++

    on steroids

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