Top 15 xfdesktop Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

The xfdesktop application manages the desktop backdrop. It sets a backdrop image and/or color and it can pop up an applications menu and a list of all running applications when you click on the desktop with the right or middle mouse button respectively. As of Xfce 4.4, xfdesktop also draws icons on the desktop.

1. xmms2

xmms2 A Free software music player and manager with a built-in media library and a smart client-server model, plus a sophisticated plug-in architecture. The player is not related to the well-known media player XMMS.......

2. Tracker

Tracker Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and search for content in their files too.......

3. Clipman

Clipman Clipman is a clipboard manager for Xfce. It keeps the clipboard contents around while it is usually lost when you close an application. It is able to handle text and images, and has a feature to execute actions on specific text selections by matching them against regular expressions. It can......

4. xfmedia

xfmedia Note that Xfmedia is abandoned and likely doesn't build or run anymore. For alternatives, you might try xine or the GNOME 3 Videos app.......

5. Imagination

Imagination Imagination is a lightweight and simple DVD slide show maker for GNU/Linux. Imagination has been designed from the ground up to be fast, light and easy-to-use. It requires the ffmpeg encoder to produce the movie file and libsox to handle the audio.Imagination at present features 69 transition effects, random function......

6. Thoggen

Thoggen Thoggen is a DVD ripper for Linux within the GNOME project. It is based on GStreamer and Gtk+. The current version can back up DVDs by encoding them using the Ogg Theora video codec.Thoggen is designed to be easy and straight-forward to use. It attempts to hide the complexity many......

7. Qalculate!

Qalculate! Qalculate! is a multi-purpose desktop calculator for GNU/Linux. It is small and simple to use but with much power and versatility underneath. Features include customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting, and a user-friendly interface (KDE or GTK+).......

8. Xpdf

Xpdf Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities. Xpdf runs under the X Window System......

9. Transcoder

Transcoder Transcoder is a video converter for Linux using GTK+ as GUI toolkit and ffmpeg as backend.......

10. gcolor2

gcolor2 gcolor2 is a basic colourpicker utility that allows you to select any colour on your screen, and, well, grab it's colour. It also allows you to save the colour you create to a file, which shows up as a list in the application.......

11. PasswordMaker

PasswordMaker Passwordmaker creates unique, secure passwords that are very easy for you to retrieve but no one else. Nothing is stored anywhere, anytime, so there's nothing to be hacked, lost, or stolen. PasswordMaker has been around since about 2003 and so is a mature, stable, popular solution......

12. ceni

ceni Network manager used by Linux distributions Sidux and Aptosid, but can be installed on debian based distributions, and compiled from source on just about any.......

13. sshfs

sshfs This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the......

14. Deducer

Deducer Deducer is designed to be a free easy to use alternative to proprietary data analysis software such as SPSS, JMP, and Minitab. It has a menu system to do common data manipulation and analysis tasks, and an excel-like spreadsheet in which to view and edit data frames. The goal of......

15. gtkam

gtkam gtkam is the official GTK2 GUI for libgphoto2. Its purpose it to provide a standard client for libgphoto2 aimed at GNOME users. Consider it as a reference implementation for a graphical libgphoto2 client.......