COOL PROGRAMS
Some programs work well with wmii or dwm. Some general rules of thumb for judging a programs as usable are:
- The program will accept any window size
- The program consists of a single window (there are no nested windows, such as in Xpdf)
This covers most console-based programs and programs from plan9port.
Accounting
Audio Players
- C* Music Player
- DeaDBeeF
- PyTone – PyTone is a music jukebox written in Python with a curses based GUI. It provides features like crossfading and multiple players, special emphasis is put on ease of use.
- cplay
- moc
- mpd – A client/server based music player with console and graphical front-ends.
- mpg123 – A console mpg player which doesn’t use auto*hell, or extra libraries.
- mpg321
- vorbis-tools (Ogg/FLAC) – Command-line tools to play Ogg and FLAC files.
BitTorrent Clients
- btpd – The BitTorrent Protocol Daemon
Feed aggregators
IRC Clients
- Irc
- acme:SAC
- ii – A FIFO based IRC client which is part of the suckless.org project.
- ircc – A no-frills, ncurses free, console-based IRC client.
- ircrc – An rc-based IRC client similar to ircc. Needs minor modification to run on UNIX.
- irssi
- sic – Another suckless.org IRC client. Similar to ircc.
Image Viewers
- feh
- jpg/gif/bmp/png – Simple programs from Plan 9 to display images in no-frills windows. Included with plan9port.
- meh – image viewer using raw XLib, libjpeg, libpng and libgif
- page – Plan 9’s image/document viewer program. Included with plan9port.
- qiv
- sxiv – Simple (or small or suckless) X Image Viewer. Depends on xlib and imlib2.
- xli – broken link? Apparently, there’s a copy here: http://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/ — at your own risk
- xzgv
Instant Messaging Clients
- bitlbee – A program to translate IM protocols to IRC. You can now IM from your IRC client, and you don’t even need to install anything.
- centericq
- centerim – A centericq fork.
- climm
- mcabber – A console jabber client.
- ysm
Mail Clients
- Mail – A mail client for acme. Included with plan9port.
- Sylpheed
- dmc – A minimalistic approach to a commandline mail client (WIP)
- fdm – MDA
- heirloom-mailx – A mail client based on the original Berkeley Mail 8.1 with many new features.
- mutt
- muttator – A Thunderbird extension to make it keyboard friendly and mutt/Vim-like.
- nmh
Media Players
- mplayer (without GUI) – You know mplayer, but you may not know that it works well without the GUI.
- smplayer
PDF Viewers
Programming languages
Text Editors
- acme – Rob Pike’s framing text editor for Plan 9. Included in plan9port.
- ired (Minimalist hexadecimal editor and bindiffer for p9, w32 and *nix)
- nvi – A small, multiple file vi-alike.
- sam – An editor by Rob Pike with inspiration from ed.
- traditional vi – A fixed version of the original vi.
- vim (With the GUI, use
:set go+=cto kill popup dialogs) - wily – An acme clone for POSIX.
Utilities
- 9menu – A menu program based on the Blit-style menus so prevalent in Plan 9. A take on it is included with wmii.
- dmenu – Obvious
Web Browsers
- Abaco
- Conkeror – A Gecko based browser, imparting it Emacs style key bindings, appearances, and behaviors.
- Dillo
- ELinks
- Links
- Lynx
- Vimperator – An extension to make Firefox keyboard friendly and Vim-like. Developed in part by wmii’s maintainer.
- edbrowse
- surf
- uzbl
- w3m