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.

Text Editors

acme – Rob Pike’s framing text editor for Plan 9. Included in plan9port.
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+=c to kill popup dialogs)
ired (Minimalist hexadecimal editor and bindiffer for p9, w32 and *nix)
wily – An acme clone for POSIX.

Audio Players

cmus
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
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.
vorbis-tools (Ogg/FLAC) – Command-line tools to play Ogg and FLAC files.

Media Players

mplayer (without GUI) – You know mplayer, but you may not know that it works well without the GUI.
smplayer

Utilities

9menu – A menu program based on the Blit-style menus so prevalent in Plan 9.
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A take on it is included with wmii.
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dmenu – Obvious

Programming languages

TinyPy – Tiny Python (partial python)
Lua

Image Viewers

feh
jpg/gif/bmp/png – Simple programs from Plan 9 to display images in no-frills windows. Included with plan9port.
page – Plan 9’s image/document viewer program. Included with plan9port.
qiv
xli – broken link? Apparently, there’s a copy here: http://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/ — at your own risk
xzgv

IRC Clients

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. Broken link. Is it netwalker-ircc?
Irc
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.

Mail Clients

heirloom-mailx – A mail client based on the original Berkeley Mail 8.1 with many new features.
Mail – A mail client for acme. Included with plan9port.
mutt
muttator – A Thunderbird extension to make it keyboard friendly and mutt/Vim-like.
nmh
dmc – A minimalistic approach to a commandline mail client (WIP)
Sylpheed claws

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

Web Browsers

Vimperator – An extension to make Firefox keyboard friendly and Vim-like. Developed in part by wmii’s maintainer.
Conkeror – A Gecko based browser, imparting it Emacs style key bindings, appearances, and behaviors.
Dillo (try the i18n version)
ELinks
links2
Lynx
w3m
edbrowse
uzbl

Web Servers (httpd)

Nostromo