Keyboard driven minimalist app
Terminal Emulator and App Launcher
- Terminal : Alacritty
- Menu : jgmenu / rofi / nwg-launchers -> nwggrid
- Appimages : gearlever
I also consider switching to kitty.
I like the fact that kitty ask for confirmation when closing a terminal.
It is also easier to enable image support on third parties cli-tools.
But I find alacritty more minimalist.
I used a special config for rofi and I replicated it for nwggrid.
nwggrid has been buggy
jgmenu is very oldschool and X11 dependant but the categories features + dmenu mode is a killer one.
I haven't tried Appimage-Launcher yet but I don't like gearlever forcing me to move all my appimages on the same folder in order to run them.
Basic multimedia viewers
Those are very neat. I higly recommends.
- Image viewer : vimiv / nsxiv
- Video / Music Player : mpv
- Document viewer : zathura
I use two different image viewer to support all the different formats.
The default is vimiv, the fallback is nsxiv but it could be replaced by sxiv
Zathura is bundled in several packages : pdf, comic-book and post-script format.
Web browsers
- Qutebrowser : my favorite but sometimes doesn't run on musl system.
- Luakit : very good replacement when qutebrowser refuse to start.
- vimb : more minimalist
- uzbl : abandoned
Useful Standard tools
Basics
Qt variants
- Archive Manager : Ark
- Text Editor : Kate
Gtk variants
- Archive Manager : engrampa
- Text Editor : leafpad
Administration
- Graphical Packet Manager : octo[xbps] (xbps is the Void Linux package manager but you can also find Octo for others
- Password Manager : keepasXC
System Settings
- Screen Settings : wdisplay
- Sound Settings : pavucontrol-qt
- Network Settings : network-manager-applet -> nm-connection-editor
- GTK Settings : nwg-look, lxappearance
- QT Settings : qt5ct, qt6ct and optionally kvantum
Hardware management
- CD/DVD Burner : Brasero
- Scanner Tool : simple-scan
- Corsair Mouse : ckb-next
Not Minimalist at all
- Dolphin
Edition Software
IDE
- TexStudio
- hobbits
Audio
- Audacity
Graphical
- Gimp
- Inkscape
- GrafX2
- Goxel
CAO
- LibreCAD
- FreeCAD