Xubuntu

Appendix A. Application table

Table of Contents

Settings Manager
Behind the scenes
Friendly name Package name Short description
Catfish File Search catfish File searching tool which is configurable via the command line
Document Viewer evince Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer
Calculator gnome-calculator Desktop calculator
Character Map gucharmap Unicode character picker and font browser
LibreOffice Calc libreoffice-calc Spreadsheet application
LibreOffice Writer libreoffice-writer Word processor
Mousepad mousepad Simple Xfce oriented text editor
PulseAudio Volume Control pavucontrol PulseAudio Volume Control
Simple Scan simple-scan Simple Scanning Utility
Application Finder xfce4-appfinder Find and launch applications installed on your system
Run Program xfce4-appfinder Run a program
Dictionary xfce4-dict Dictionary plugin for Xfce4 panel
Task Manager xfce4-taskmanager Process manager for the Xfce4 Desktop Environment

Settings Manager

Friendly name Package name Short description
Theme Configuration gtk-theme-config Simple interface to change GTK+ themes
Menu Editor menulibre Menu layout editor
About Me mugshot Lightweight user-configuration application
Network Connections network-manager-gnome Network management framework
Additional Drivers software-properties-gtk Configure third-party and proprietary drivers
Software & Updates software-properties-gtk Configure the sources for installable software and updates
Printers system-config-printer-gnome Printer configuration GUI

Behind the scenes

Package name Short description
gvfs-backends Allows GVFS to connect to many network protocols (smb://, nfs://, etc)
gvfs-fuse Let non-GNOME apps use GVFS via fuse
libnotify-bin Binaries to send notification bubbles
light-locker Simple session-locker for lightdm
tumbler Xfce thumbnail daemon used by thunar and xfdesktop4
xfce4-notifyd Daemon used to display notification bubbles
xfce4-indicator-plugin Panel plugin for the indicators (indicator-application, indicator-sound)