Desktop

Desktop Help [more versions, languages, or options...]

Accessibility

Dasher Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Dasher is an accessible text entry application that uses pointing gestures rather than typing. It is designed to be fast while fun to use.

Mousetweaks Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Mousetweaks provides mouse accessibility enhancements for the GNOME Desktop.

Utilities

Character Map Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Character Map is a Unicode character map that allows you to select characters from a table and insert then in to a text string.

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Control Center [more versions, languages, or options...]

The GNOME Control Center provides a central place for the user to setup their GNOME experience. It can let you configure anything from the behavior of your window borders to the default font type.

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Dictionary Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Dictionary enables you to look up definitions and correct spellings of words.

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File Roller Archive Manager Help [more versions, languages, or options...]

Archive Manager, also known as File Roller, allows you to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive.

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GCalctool Help [more versions, languages, or options...]

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Gda Browser Help [more versions, languages, or options...]
gedit Text Editor [more versions, languages, or options...]

gedit is a text editor for the GNOME Desktop featuring basic yet robust capabilities such as printing, spell checking, find and replace, and syntax highlighting. More advanced features are available as plugins.

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Gnote Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Gnote is a simple desktop note-taking application, with some powerful built-in features to help you organize your ideas.

moserial Manual V3.0.0 [more versions, languages, or options...]

moserial is a serial terminal for the GNOME desktop, optimized for logging and file capture.

Search for Files Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

A search tool to find files, folders and documents on your computer.

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Zenity Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Zenity is a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display dialog boxes from the commandline and shell scripts.

Games

AisleRiot Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

AisleRiot is a collection of over 80 card games programmed in GNOME's scripting language, Scheme.

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Chess Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

glChess is a game for playing the classic board game of chess, in which two players simulate a battle by capturing the opponents pieces and ultimately the king. It can be played in 2D or 3D mode, full screen or in a window.

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Four-in-a-Row Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The object of Four-in-a-Row is to place four pieces in a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal row while the opponent tries to block and make his/her own row of four. Four-in-a-Row can be played against another human or the computer.

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glines [more versions, languages, or options...]

To play Five or More one must align colored pieces as the board gets filled with randomly placed pieces. When five or more pieces of the same color get lined up, they disappear. The game ends when the board gets filled up all the way.

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gnome-sudoku [more versions, languages, or options...]

Sudoku is an application for playing the popular sudoku logic puzzle game, in which one must fill a 9 by 9 square with the correct digits.

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iagno [more versions, languages, or options...]

Iagno is the two player strategy game of Othello, which is also known as Reversi and is similar to Go. The pieces are tiles that are black on one side and white on the other and the objective is for the player to flip his/her opponent's tiles to his/her color, while keeping the opponent from doing the same. Once the board is filled with tiles, the winner is the player with the most of his/her color tiles on the board.

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Klotski Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Klotski is a puzzle game of which the objective is to get the patterned block to the marker, which is done by moving the blocks in its way.

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Lights Off Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Lights Off is a puzzle game, where the objective is to turn off all of the tiles on the board. Each click toggles the state of the clicked tile and its non-diagonal neighbors.

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mahjongg [more versions, languages, or options...]

Mahjongg is a solitaire version of the classic Eastern tile game. It involves clearing as much of the board as possible by matching corresponding tiles and taking them out of play.

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Mines Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Mines is GNOME's take on the popular logic puzzle minesweeper, which includes avoiding mines while receiving clues for the location of the mines.

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Nibbles Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Nibbles is a worm game for GNOME. The player controls a 2D worm while trying to get food. Getting food gives points, but hitting anything causes a loss of points. When all points are lost, the player loses.

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Quadrapassel Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Quadrapassel is GNOME's version of Tetris, the classic game of interlocking four-piece blocks. As they fall from the top, the player must orient them to fit the other blocks at the bottom so that they form a complete horizontal line, in which case that line disappears and the player gains points.

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Robots Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Robots is a graphical version of the original text based robots game, which can be found on a number of UNIX systems. The player must outwit the robots chasing him/her by getting them to run into each other.

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Swell Foop Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Swell Foop is a puzzle game, of which the objective is to clear the window of as many pieces as possible by clicking on groups of the same colored pieces. That group will vanish and the pieces on top will fall until there are none left or no more color groups.

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Tali Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Tali is like Yahtzee for GNOME or like poker with dice. The player rolls dice to try to make the best possible combinations, like 4 of a kind, small straight, and full house. The player is allowed 3 rolls per turn and can hold certain dice with each roll.

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Graphics

Cheese Webcam Booth [more versions, languages, or options...]

Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others.

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eog [more versions, languages, or options...]

User manual for Eye of GNOME Image Viewer.

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evince [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Evince Document Viewer application enables you to view documents of various formats like Portable Document Format (PDF) files and PostScript files

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Internet

Empathy Internet Messenger [more versions, languages, or options...]

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Epiphany Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Epiphany is a simple web browser for GNOME with most standard features such as pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing. It also has optional extensions and rather than using folder-based bookmarks, it has topic-based bookmarks.

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evolution [more versions, languages, or options...]

A user's guide to Evolution which explains how to use its mail, calendar, address book, and task list features.

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GNOME Nettool Manual V2.7 [more versions, languages, or options...]

Nettool Manual GNOME's Nettool gives a graphical user interface for a number of network tools, such as ping, netstat, traceroute, port scan, lookup, finger, and whois.

Personal File Sharing Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

gnome-user-share is a session service that enables easy sharing of files between several computers.

Vinagre Help [more versions, languages, or options...]

Vinagre is a Remote Desktop Viewer

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Sound & Video

Brasero Help [more versions, languages, or options...]

Brasero is an application for burning CDs and DVDs.

GNOME Audio Profiles Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

GNOME Audio Profiles is a set of audio encoding configurations for GStreamer based applications.

GNOME Volume Control Manual V2.1 [more versions, languages, or options...]

GNOME Volume Control is an audio mixer

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GStreamer Properties Manual V2.5 [more versions, languages, or options...]

GStreamer Properties lets you configure parameters related to the hardware and multimedia

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Rhythmbox Music Player [more versions, languages, or options...]

Rhythmbox is the full featured music player for GNOME Desktop.

Sound Juicer Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Sound Juicer is a simple and clean CD ripping tool. It allows you to extract the audio from audio compact discs and convert them into audio files that your computer can understand and play.

Sound Recorder Manual V2.5 [more versions, languages, or options...]

Sound Recorder is a simple application to record and play different sound files

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Totem Movie Player Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Totem Movie Player is a media player for GNOME that runs on GStreamer by default, but can also be run on xine. It has support for most audio and video codecs including DVDs among many others. Features include TV-out, fullscreen, subtitles, and more.

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Office Applications

Glom User Guide V0.2 [more versions, languages, or options...]

User manual for Glom.

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System

Configuration Editor Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Configuration Editor can be used to change configuration options used by applications that may not be available through Preference dialogs

Disk Usage Analyzer Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical, menu-driven viewer that you can use to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure.

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GNOME Color Manager Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

GNOME Color Manager is a session program that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles in the GNOME desktop.

GNOME Power Manager Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon for the GNOME Desktop that manages the power settings for your laptop or desktop computer.

GNOME Terminal Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Terminal gives users the power to communicate with their system using text-based commands through a shell such as Bash.

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gnome-bluetooth Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

gnome-bluetooth is an application to manage Bluetooth devices in the GNOME desktop.

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gnome-packagekit Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

gnome-packagekit is a suite of tools for integration with the GNOME desktop.

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Network Administration Tool Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Network Administration Tool allows you to specify the way your system connects to other computers and to internet.

Palimpsest Disk Utility Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

This document describes the Palimpsest Disk Utility application.

Services Administration Tool Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Services Administration Tool allows you to specify which services will be started during the system boot process.

Shared Folders Administration Tool Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Shared Folders Administration Tool allows you to share folders to other computers in your network or in the internet.

System Log Viewer Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

System Log Viewer is a graphical user interface to view and monitor system log files.

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System Monitor Manual V2.2 [more versions, languages, or options...]

System Monitor gives users a graphical user interface for monitoring CPU, network, and memory activities as well as a way for viewing and stopping system processes.

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Time Administration Tool Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Time Administration Tool allows you to set the time, date and timezone of your system, as well as setting any time server to synchronize your local time server.

Users Administration Tool Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Users Administration Tool allows you add, delete and modify the existing users and groups in your system.

Other Documentation

Battery Charge Monitor Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Battery Charge Monitor shows the current charge of the battery and provides notifications if charge drops below a certain threshold.

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Character Palette Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Character Palette provides a convenient way to access characters that are not on your keyboard, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks.

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Clock Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Clock applet displays the date and time, and when clicked, displays a calendar. The Clock can be customized to show seconds or a 12 or 24 hour clock.

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Command Line Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Command Line allows commands to be run from a panel, and includes quick access to a file browser and command history.

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CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor shows the current clock speed of the CPU and provides an interface to change the clock speed if the CPU supports it.

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Deskbar Applet Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Deskbar is a quick access and search applet.

Disk Mounter Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Disk Mounter enables you to quickly mount or unmount various types of drives and file systems from a panel.

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Encryption Applet Manual V1.0 [more versions, languages, or options...]

Encryption Applet is a graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys.

Fish Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Fish applet displays an animated image in the panel and gives you your fortune when clicked.

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Geyes Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Geyes provides an entertaining way to track the mouse pointer around your screen, through a pair of moving eyes.

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Invest Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

User manual for Invest

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Keyboard Accessibility Monitor Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Keyboard Accessibility Monitor shows the status of the keyboard accessibility features.

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Keyboard Indicator Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Keyboard Indicator shows the active keyboard group and enables switching between different groups.

Network Monitor Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Network Monitor enables you to monitor the network traffic for a particular interface.

Panel Trash Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Panel Trash lets you manage your trash from the panel.

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Sticky Notes Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Sticky Notes enables you to create, view, and manage sticky notes on your desktop.

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System Monitor Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

System Monitor displays system load information in graphical format in a panel.

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Volume Control Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Volume Control enables you to control the sound volume on your system and provides visual feedback on the current volume level.

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Weather Report Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

The Weather Report Applet downloads weather information for a given location from the internet and displays the temperature and a symbol representing the current weather conditions in the panel. When clicked on, more information is given, such as the forecast, the time of sunrise and sunset, wind direction, pressure, and more. All units are customizable.

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Other Documentation

Accerciser [more versions, languages, or options...]

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Banshee Media Player [more versions, languages, or options...]

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Encryption and Keyrings Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Encryption and Keyrings is the application for managing your primary encryption key and how the passphrase for your key is stored after performing an encryption operation.

F-Spot photo manager [more versions, languages, or options...]
gda-sql [more versions, languages, or options...]
GNOME Tetravex [more versions, languages, or options...]

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gThumbHelp [more versions, languages, or options...]
Orca Screen Reader [more versions, languages, or options...]

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Passwords and Keys Manual [more versions, languages, or options...]

Passwords and Keys is the application for managing encryption keys for the GNOME Desktop

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Tomboy Notes [more versions, languages, or options...]