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A large selection of free PDF readers for Linux is available online, yet picking the best one is not an easy task at all.
Most people first think of Adobe Acrobat Reader, but despite its prevalence, there are some great alternatives to choose from.
Today, we are taking a look at Slim PDF Reader - a quintessential alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Slim PDF Reader is a lightweight, free PDF viewer popular among Windows users that now Linux enthusiasts can enjoy, as well.
It all comes down to the size and speed with this free PDF reader. Nonetheless, it offers some interesting features:
  • Customizable UI with dark theme support
  • A full range of advanced annotation options
  • Copy and snapshot tools
  • Various viewing options and navigation tools
  • PDF form filling and signature verification
  • Download size only 17.3 MB (Ubuntu and Fedora)
Let’s take a closer look at the main strong points of this free PDF reader for Linux below.

Simple & Modern UI

When it comes to the user interface design, Slim PDF reader deserves a 5-star rating.
The PDF viewer uses bright colors for the tools and options that provide a nice contrast against the background. It also comes with a nice, modern-looking dark theme suitable for working and reading at night.
On top of having an eye-catching design, the UI is easy to navigate around and requires minimal learning effort.

All viewing options are located in the bottom toolbar. There you can rotate pages, set the zoom level, search through the document, select viewing mode, and go to a specific page.
The top toolbar and the right-side panel are populated with the main editing tools. You can use these tools to make and save changes to your PDF documents.
In the left side panel, you can easily view page thumbnails, bookmarks, and attachments if there are any.

Watermarks, Comments, Attachments & More

If you often need to review and markup your PDFs, you'll be glad to know that Slim PDF Reader comes with 10 advanced and customizable PDF annotation tools.
Using the right-side panel, you can instantly add the following annotations: watermark, highlighter, attachment, link, strike-through, squiggly line, stamp, underline, and sticky note.

Simply select the desired tool, then place the annotation where you want it on the page. From there, you can reposition it if necessary and customize it using the options in the properties section.
On top of that, Slim PDF Reader enables you to fill out PDF forms, and check if a PDF with an attached digital signature was altered or not.

Copy and Snapshot Tools

Slim PDF Reader doesn’t offer advanced text and image conversion, but it comes with content extraction tools that other PDF viewers are missing.

The Copy tool enables you to select and copy a portion of PDF text to clipboard that you can paste into a browser for search or other applications for editing.

In the same manner, the Snapshot tool is used to create an image of a section of the document that you can then paste into an image processing app.

Final Words

Overall, Slim PDF Reader makes a very good impression. It is small, fast, and offers an interesting, feature-rich toolbox for a free PDF viewing tool.
If you need more advanced features such as PDF conversion, editing, and e-signatures, check out our review of Able2Extract Professional for Linux.
Have you already tried Slim PDF Reader? Do you use some other tool for PDF viewing on Linux? You’re welcome to drop a comment and share your opinion in the comments below.
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Do you love to play classic games? If yes, then you are on the right page. RetroArch is a frontend utility for emulators, game engines and media players. You can play wide variety of classic of computer and consoles games. It is free, open-source and cross-platform runs on Linux, Most Windows versions, Mac OS X; On top of all that, RetroArch also runs on iOS and Android for tablets and phones, as well as on game consoles like PS2, PS3, PSP, PS Vita, Wii, Wii U, 2DS, 3DS, Switch, and more! If you have device which is not mentioned here or simply you don't want to install it on your system or you just want to give it a shot then you can run RetroArch online in your web-browser.
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Programmers/Developers always love rich-feature text editor, they can be more productive using such application. Sublime Text Editor has been around since 2008 and widely used by many programmers. It is written using C++ and Python programming language, the best thing about this editor is that it's cross-platform and available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
Sublime-Text editor natively support numerous amount of programming and markup languages, more functionality can be added using plugins, the plugins are mostly built by its community and maintained user free-software licenses.
Sublime-Text editor is a proprietary software but it can be installed and offers unlimited evaluation which means you can use it as long as you want it to be free. So basically the evaluation period never expires.
sublime

Features:
  • Cross platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS)
  • "Goto Anything," quick navigation to files, symbols, or lines
  • "Command palette" uses adaptive matching for quick keyboard invocation of arbitrary commands
  • Simultaneous editing: simultaneously make the same interactive changes to multiple selected areas
  • Python-based plugin API
  • Project-specific preferences
  • Column selection and multi-select editing
  • Extensive customizability via JSON settings files, including project-specific and platform-specific settings
  • Compatible with many language grammars from TextMate
  • Auto-save, which attempts to prevent users from losing their work
  • Spell check function corrects as you type.
  • Macros and Repeat the last action.
  • Customizable key bindings, a navigational tool which allows users to assign hotkeys to their choice of options in both the menus and the toolbar.
  • Find as you type, begins to look for the text being entered as the user types without requiring a separate dialog box.
  • A wide selection of editing commands, including indenting and unindenting, paragraph reformatting and line joining.

Recent Changelog:
  • Files and folders in the sidebar will now display badges to indicate Git status
  • Ignored files and folders are visually de-emphasized
  • The current Git branch and number of modifications is displayed in the status bar
  • All changes to a document are now represented by dedicated markers in the gutter
  • Diff markers show added, modified and deleted lines
  • Improve positioning and sizing of gutter icons in some situations
  • Linux: Improved input method (IM) support - fcitx, ibus, etc
  • Linux: Fixed a crash when using GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
  • Linux: Tweaked behavior of up/down when on the first and last lines of a file to better match platform conventions
  • Improved performance with large numbers of rules in a .sublime-theme
  • Linux: Moved to GTK3
  • Linux: Various high DPI fixes
  • Support for Unicode 11.0
  • Improved rendering of combining characters
  • Linux: Color glyphs are now drawn properly on light backgrounds
  • Linux: Improved behavior of --wait command line argument when Sublime Text isn't currently running
  • More information can be found here.

Install using repository:

Available for Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Debian and Ubuntu derivatives
To Install Sublime Text Editor in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To install stable version add this repository

To install development version add this repository

Now to tistall Sublime Text Editor run these command

Install via Snap:

Available for Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Debian and Ubuntu derivatives
To Install Sublime Text Editor in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

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Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows. Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.
winehq

Changes:
  • New MSIDB tool for manipulating MSI databases.
  • Support for custom draw buttons in common controls.
  • Many more Media Foundation APIs implemented.
  • Reimplementation of XAudio2 using the FAudio library.
  • Mono engine updated to the latest upstream.
  • More modern handling of iconic windows.
  • Improved handling of kernel objects.
  • Various bug fixes.

Install Winehq 4.4 via Official Repository in Ubuntu 19.04/18.10 Cosmic/18.04 Bionic/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 19/18/17 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

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You may be aware of Ubuntu Tweak application, it is great utility but it is no longer in development (discontinued) and developer abandoned this project 4 years ago. The last release was for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.x but the latest release also works fine in Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial/Linux Mint 18.x. Ubuntu Tweak was mainly designed to manage Ubuntu system and desktop settings but it can also work in Ubuntu based distributions (some of the features won't work if you are not using Unity desktop). It is easier to use, free and was released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
This utility offers many features which you can't find in system and desktop settings options. It lets you change lots of things in your system such as: adding scripts to file manager, running cleaner, change themes, change login screen background and so on.

Features:
  • Change Fonts
  • Change system sounds
  • Change themes and icons
  • Configure login screen (lightdm)
  • Options for Desktop icons
  • Configuration for Unity
  • Workspace settings
  • File Manager settings
  • Add scripts to File Manager
  • Assign default program to file types
  • Source editor
  • System Cleaner
  • and more.

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ClipGrab is a free software to download and convert videos from different famous sites of Internet. You can easily save your favorite videos from sites like Dailymotion or Vimeo. And you can convert these videos into "usable" formats like WMV, MPEG or MP3. You can check here which sites are supported by this software.
It can convert videos to WMV, MPEG4, OGG Theora, MP3 (audio only), OGG Vorbis (audio only) or simply download videos in their original format. However, downloading from some sites doesn't allow you to select other format from drop-down menu, it could be issue with site videos.
ClipGrab can download from the following sites: Clipfish, Collegehumor, Dailymotion, MyVideo, MySpass, Sevenload, Tudou, Vimeo and others. ClipGrab isn't limited to the sites listed, because many more sites are supported "unofficially" through the automatic site-recognition of ClipGrab. By the way, ClipGrab can also download HD videos from sites that have support for high definition.

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SMPlayer is an open source and free multimedia player available for Linux and MS Windows, released under GNU General Public License. Unlike other players it doesn't require you to install codecs to play something because it carries its own all required codecs with itself. This is the first release which now support MPV and some other features such as MPRIS v2 Support, new theme, 3D stereo filter and more. It uses the award-winning MPlayer as playback engine which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats (avi, mkv, wmv, mp4, mpeg... see list).
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DAEMON Sync lets you synchronize or backup your mobile data to computer over local WiFi without any hassle. Unlike any other cloud service DAEMON Sync lets you sync/backup files between devices without having internet connection over local WiFi that means you data never goes through someone else's servers, you can run DAEMON server on computer and let device speak to it directly. It is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
You can backup, browse and share videos and photos and evaluate all advantages of truly secure cloud service. The basic functionality of DAEMON Sync is free for non-commercial use, but other products and advanced features require activation license.

daemon sync

daemon sync

Setting up DAEMON Sync is fairly simple, fast and easy just install the server on the computer, and install app on mobile device, on the server side enter a PIN code to tie the two together. You don't have to worry about user accounts or passwords. By default DAEMON Sync choose photos, videos, and screenshots to make a backup in the server but you can choose what file/folder to sync.

Features:
  • Lightning speed up to 50Mb/sec
  • Forget about USB cables!
  • No cellular data usage
  • No Internet connection required
  • One and only full automatic background backup with advanced scheduling options!
  • Linux, Android, iOS, Windows and Mac OS are fully supported.
  • Cloud services can’t be 100% safe. DAEMON Sync can.
  • Authorize your mobile device only once and synchronize media files with server in background.
  • Connect as many devices as you want

Download and install DAEMON Sync

First you need to install DAEMON Sync server on your computer then install DAEMON Sync application on your mobile/tablet device and connect them using PIN.

Download DAEMON Sync


That's it
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Syncthing is an open-source, free file synchronization application, written in GO programming language, available for almost every operating system Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac, BSD, Android and iOS. It can sync between device that are present on the local network (no Internet required), or between remote devices over the Internet. It is secure and safe since both things are built-in into the application.
Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet. It should be safe from data loss, protecting the user's data is priority. Developers took reasonable precaution to avoid corrupting the user's files.

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There are plenty of application launchers available out there for Linux and it is really different to compare any launcher with one another. ULauncher is free and written in Python programming language, it uses less resources and works in almost every Linux desktop environment such as: Gnome, Cinnamon, Unity, Mate, Xfce, Lxde and Openbox with tint2. Using Ulauncher you can search through installed applications, navigate through folders and open files, also search on Google and Wikipedia.
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Emacs text editor doesn't need any introduction because it is quite famous and used widely. Emacs is a free, open-source, extensible, customizable text editor. It is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac, developed by GNU project and released under GNU GPL license. Development of the first Emacs began in the mid-1970s, and work on its direct descendent, GNU Emacs, continues actively as of 2017. Richard Stallman began work on GNU Emacs in 1984 to produce a free software alternative to the proprietary Gosling Emacs.
Emacs has over 10,000 built-in commands and its user interface allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work. Additionally, implementations of Emacs typically feature a dialect of the Lisp programming language that provides a deep extension capability, allowing users and developers to write new commands and applications for the editor. Extensions have been written to manage email, files, outlines, and RSS feeds, as well as clones of ELIZA, Pong, Conway's Life, Snake and Tetris.


Features:
  • Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types.
  • Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
  • Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts.
  • Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface.
  • An entire ecosystem of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more.
  • A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions.

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other Ubuntu derivatives
To install GNU Emacs in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To install text based Emacs run this command:

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Luminance HDR is an graphical user interface that is used for manipulation and creation of High Dynamic Range(HDR) images. It is based on Qt5 toolkit, it is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac, and released under the GNU GPL license. It provides a complete workflow for High Dynamic Range(HDR) as well as Low Dynamic Range (LDR) file formats.
Prerequisite of HDR photography are several narrow-range digital images with different exposures. Luminance HDR combines these images and calculates a high-contrast image. In order to view this image on a regular computer monitor, Luminance HDR can convert it into a displayable LDR image format using a variety of methods, such as tone mapping.
Luminance HDR

Luminance HDR

Features:
  • Create an HDR file from a set of images (JPEG, TIFF 8bit and 16bit, RAW) of the same scene taken at different exposure setting
  • Save and load HDR files
  • Rotate and resize HDR files
  • Tonemap HDR images
  • Projective Transformations
  • Copy EXIF data between sets of images
  • Supports internationalization

Supported HDR formats:
  • OpenEXR (.exr)
  • Radiance RGBE (.hdr)
  • Tiff formats: 16bit, 32bit (float) and LogLuv (.tiff)
  • Raw image format (various extensions)
  • PFS native format (.pfs)

Supported LDR formats:
  • JPG
  • PNG
  • Portable Pixmap (PPM)
  • Portable Bitmap (PBM)
  • TIFF (8 Bit)
  • FITS

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other Ubuntu derivatives
To install Luminance HDR in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

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Opera is an independent Scandinavian company that's been in the business of making web browsers since 1994. Opera is a free, secure and fast web browser based on Chromium and Blink(the rendering engine used by Chromium), that includes tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, integrated searches. Opera known to load pages and tabs faster (depend on internet connection). Opera checks risky sites, alerting you to potential threats. Recent versions of Opera include Facebook messenger and WhatsApp, so you don't have to go to your phone or web. Additionally it has features like battery saver and free VPN.
Opera keeps your browsing safe, so you can stay focused on the content, it protects you from fraud and malware on the web.
Multitask on the web easily: Visual bookmarks, tab cycling and customizable shortcuts, keep you on track and save you time. Now Opera has video pop-out feature - a floating, moveable video frame that lets you keep browsing or work in other apps without missing any of the action.
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Remmina is a free and open-source remote desktop application, it is written in C and GTK+, released under GNU GPL license, and only available for Unix/Linux based systems. Basically it aims to be useful for system administrators and for those who need to access remote computers. It supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent UI, at the moment RDP, VNC, NX, SPICE, XDMCP and SSH protocols are supported. You can install Remmina plugins: RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP, SSH, Telepathy



Features:
  • A GTK+ 3 application.
  • Maintain a list of connection profiles, organized by groups
  • Make quick connections by directly putting in the server address
  • Remote desktops with higher resolutions are scrollable/scalable in both window and full-screen mode.
  • View-port full-screen mode: remote desktop automatically scrolls when the mouse moves over the screen edge.
  • Floating toolbar in full-screen mode, allows you to switch between modes, toggle keyboard grabbing, minimize, etc.
  • Tabbed interface, optionally managed by groups.
  • Tray icon, allows you to quickly access configured connection profiles

Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint:

Available for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04/Linux Mint 18/17/and other Ubuntu derivatives
To install Remmina in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Available as snap package, it can be installed on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17
To Install Remmina in Ubuntu open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Install in Fedora:

To install Remmina in Fedora open Terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

For Arch Linux install it from here and for other distributions checkout this page.
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Termius is a client terminal which has built-in Telnet and SSH, it was formerly known as Serverauditor, and it is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, it offers full Terminal emulation on all your devices. You can run multiple concurrent terminal sessions with SSH, Telnet and Mosh. It has a robust emulation environment with full Emacs, Vim and MC support. Special characters, colors and command line tools work exactly how you’d expect them to.

You don't have to worry about infrastructure and credentials, since they are organized very well and logically. It comes with powerful organization features. Combine a collection of hosts into a group with shared settings, easily configured at the top level. Effortlessly find what you’re looking for with tagging, search and rich previews.
Secure Sync AES-256: Hosts, Port Forwarding rules, Snippets and Keys (optional) can be synced across your all devices. All data is client-side encrypted, with zero knowledge cloud storage and 2FA.
Some little features that can help a lot and time savers like autocomplete, quick connect, snippets and history save you seconds every session, minutes every day and hours every week.
termius

termius

termius

Features:
  • Cross-platform available for Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
  • Secure sync with AES-256 encryption
  • Password and key authentication, Also support 2FA
  • Connect to multiple hosts
  • Organize hosts using Tags and Groups
  • Infrastructure and credentials, organized logically
  • Support for port forwarding
  • Color schemes and changeable fonts
  • Export and import keys
  • Quickly execute multiple sudo commands
  • Code Snippets
  • SFTP support

Termius is available as snap package from snappy store, it can be installed on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty
To Install Termius SSH client in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To remove Termius run this command:

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RSS readers are useful if you want to get latest updates from website(s). Alduin is a free and open-source RSS feed reader available for Linux and Windows, built using modern technologies like: Electron, React, TypeScript and Less, it has easy to use user-interface and suitable for all types of users. It has native system notification support, and additionally it supports podcast feeds too.
Using the Alduin RSS interface is fairly simple, just click on the plus shaped button, and it will pull new articles from that given feed url, you can delete already added feed sources, lock the side menu in place.


Currently Alduin is in still development state that means you don't get full-features product now like any other famous RSS reader but developer mentioned that it will continue to evolve and new features will be added to it. You can't group or organize sources, and can't choose how the information should be presented to you. Also it doesn't sync any web services.
The application is in heavy development and still there is not stable release, developer said he is making progress to evolve Alduin. At some point in the near future we will see stable release of Alduin.

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Tor is a free software designed to make communication anonymous. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network consisting of more than seven thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Tor makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced back (Warning: still possible). Tor's use is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct confidential communication by keeping their Internet activities from being monitored.

SelecTOR is a frontend GUI for the Tor application. It is free for Linux and open-source based on Java released under license GNU GPL-2, it acts as a Tor launcher and exit node chooser for browsers that support system proxying using PAC files. It can be used for security and anonymization purposes or to bypass some firewall. Simplifies the process of selecting Tor exit nodes and manages selective URL pattern based on routing via system proxying.

SelekTOR

Features:
  • Support for Google Chrome, Chromium, Firefox and most Mozilla based browsers without the need for add-ons.
  • Can be used with Privoxy.
  • You can quickly select Tor exit nodes by country.
  • Greatly simplifies the usage and configuration of Tor in client mode, SelekTOR does most of the hard stuff for you.
  • Nodes are now filtered to ensure that they support both HTTP & HTTPS, and thus ensuring greater reliability when used with web browsers.
  • Will continuously monitor and maintain a connection to the exit node with the best response time, with as little downtime as possible when switching.
  • As well as proxying all traffic through the active Tor node, SelekTOR can also do selective routing of traffic through the active tor circuit based on URL patterns.
  • Whois and Atlas Node details (pretty graphs) available with a single mouse click..
  • Needs very little configuration, the installation defaults will work for most people out of the box.
  • Currently runs on most Linux desktops XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnamon, Gnome 3 Shell, KDE4, Unity, Pantheon, Enlightenment.
  • Built in proxy pattern editor, Import and Export pattern files as a single zip file.
  • Requires OpenJRE 1.7 or better this is usually supplied with your Linux distro, please ensure this is installed before installing SelekTOR.
  • Requires the latest Tor client 2.6.10 but will also work fine with the 2.4.x series.
  • Languages supported for Linux release English and French.

Install Tor Web Browser:

Available for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other Ubuntu derivatives
To Install Tor Browser in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Download and install SelekTOR

Download SelekTOR

Once you download deb file then run following commands (replace package name in the first command)

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There are some animation applications available but Synfig made its way trough crowd-funding and it's been successful. It is powerful, free, open-source vector-based 2D animation software package, developed from the scratch for producing feature-film quality 2D animation with fewer resources and people, it is released under the GNU General Public License.
Synfig stores its animations in its own XML file format, often compressed with gzip. These files use the filename extension .sif (uncompressed), .sifz (compressed) or .sfg (zip container format). The files store vector graphics data, embed or reference external bitmap images, and also a revision history of the project. It can render to video formats such as AVI, Theora and MPEG, as well as animated graphics formats such as MNG and GIF. It can also render to a sequence of numbered image files, using formats such as PNG, BMP, PPM and OpenEXR.

Layers: Synfig supports a multitude of layers of various types; geometric, gradients, filters, distortions, transformations, fractal and a few others.
Bones: Full-featured bone system allows to create cutout animation using bitmap images or control your vector artwork. The Skeleton Distortion layer allows to apply complex deformations to bitmap artwork.
Sound support: Synfig has basic features for syncing your animation with soundtrack using Sound Layer. Linux users can get all benefits of full-featured audio editors through the JACK integration.

Features:
  • Ability to design the animation in the front-end and render it at a later time with the backend
  • Supports multitude of layers of different types
  • Requires less resources and people
  • Capability of simulating soft-shading using curved gradients within an area
  • Wide variety of other real-time effects that can be applied to layers or groups of layers
  • Ability to control and animate the width of lines at their individual control points
  • Ability to link any related data from one object to another
  • Works with High Dynamic Range Imaging.

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Temps is a simple, free and open-source smart weather application, designed to stay on the desktop as a widget. It is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It is built using Electron, Menubar, Chart.js, and OpenWeatherMap technologies.
It does work with most of the desktops and lets you touch it visually. Basically it stays on the desktop as a widget and display current weather in any location around the world. It displays forecast for the following four days with current day.
Since this is a non-profit project, developer is not able to offer unlimited access to weather information that means you can signup to OpenWeatherMap API and create a free key for yourself.


Features:
  • Free and open-source
  • Actual weather information for any location
  • Four-Day weather forecast
  • Interactive hourly weather graph
  • Timezone & Geolocation support
  • Information directly in your menubar available
  • Rain, snow and thunder animation
  • Minimal and colorful design

Download zip file and extract it. Then use chmod +x Temps to make it executable from terminal and launch it ./Temps.

Download Temps Weather

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Harmony is audio player inspired from iTunes, it is built with Electron and vanilla JS, available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It plays audio files locally and from cloud services as well. It is based on plugins, and plugins are available for Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, Hype Machine, Deezer, and local files.
It is skinable means you can write and install themes but it has two themes available other than default. Harmony can be controlled using keyboard shortcuts and media keys. Press ? to see the list of available shortcuts. It is responsive design player that means you can resize it however you want, make it compact or half screen or full screen, it will follow you. It uses the tray or the sound menu integration to control the playback even when the app isn't focused.
Developers can now create their own plugins, as it is possible for users to install third-parties in Harmony. You can checkout documentation for themes and plugins.
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