Glide is a free and open source minimalistic Media Player for Linux and MacOS. It is written in rust and GTK and based on GStreamer. It comes with subtitle support, track synchronization, video and audio track selection and visualization support. It supports asf, avi, 3gp/mp4/mov, flv, mpeg-ps/ts, mkv/webm, mxf, ogg and more video container formats. The user interface is very simple and easy to use. It is released under MIT License.
Blue Recorder is a free and open source desktop screen recorder application for Linux. Using Blue Recorder you can record your desktop video and audio. It supports recording on Wayland display server and Xorg. It is released under open source GNU General Public License version 3 and built using Rust, GTK+ 3 and ffmpeg. You can record video in mkv, avi, mp4, wmv, gif and nut file formats.
Clapper is a free and open source media player for Linux. It is released under open source GNU General Public License v3.0 and build using GJS and GTK4. It is based on GStreamer and OpenGL. It comes with hardware acceleration and MPRIS support. The UI is comes with Windowed Mode, Floating Mode and Fullscreen Mode. Some other good features are subtitles support and you can also play network streams, YouTube and you can also set audio offset to sync the audio.
Leikr is a free and open source video game making system for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is written in Java using the Mini2DX game framework and released under Apache License 2.0. Using Leikr you can make video games with Groovy programming language. Here you can create up to 128 sprites in the sizes of 8×8, 16×16, 32×32 and even 64×64. It also support external artwork in png, jpg or bmp file formats and wav, mp3 or ogg files to play sfx and music.
Ghidra is a free and open source software reverse engineering suite of tools for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is developed by National Security Agency Research Directorate and released under open source Apache License 2.0. Using Ghidra you can analyze compiled software code and disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting. You can also extent its features via the extension components.
If your recently installed Ubuntu Linux doesn’t play most video and files, then you need to install ubuntu restricted extras package. The ubuntu restricted extras is a software package that contains software like flash plugin, unrar, gstreamer, mp4, codecs for Chromium , libavcodec and more. These are proprietary software packages and Ubuntu doesn’t install by default during the OS installation process. But you can install these softwares in Ubuntu Linux using below commands. Using this you can play most video and Audio files in your system. You can also install this on all Ubuntu based distro.
Klavaro is a free and open source touch typing tutor application for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Using Klavaro you can learn and improve your typing easily. You can customize the typing keyboard layouts and edit and save new or unknown keyboard layouts. It comes with basic course for initial typing training and other available courses are adaptability, speed and fluidity. It also provides charts about your learning process. It supports multi-keyboard, multi-language, internet contest and more.
Bulky is a free and open source bulk file and directory rename application for Linux from Linux Mint team. It is based on Python and released under GNU General Public License v3. Using this bulky renamer application you can find and replace file and directory names with regular expression support. You can also remove letters and insert new text, change filename to title case, upper case, lower case and first character uppercase. It also comes with preview the changes support.
ParaView is a free and open source data analysis and visualization software for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Using this application you can build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques and it also supports the data exploration in 3D or programmatically. You can use ParaView in climate research, CFD simulations, cloud-resolving simulation, PHASTA and ParaView catalyst and shaped charge jet penetration. It is released under BSD-3-Clause license.
In your Linux system you can easily find all installed fonts via command-line based terminal application and you don’t need any third party GUI applications for that. In this article we are going to use fc-list command to lists all installed fonts and styles using fontconfig tool.