List of GTK applications


This is a list of notable applications that use GTK and/or Clutter for their GUI widgets. Such applications blend well with desktop environments that are GTK-based as well, such as GNOME, Cinnamon, LXDE, MATE, Pantheon, Sugar, Xfce or ROX Desktop.

Official GNOME applications

, i.e. all the people involved with the development of the GNOME desktop environment, is the biggest contributor to GTK, and the GNOME Core Applications as well as the GNOME Games employ the newest GUI widgets from the cutting-edge version of GTK and demonstrates their capabilities.

Shells, user interfaces, application launchers

Operating system administration

  • Disk Usage Analyzer – Disk-usage analyzer
  • GNOME Disks – utility for the hard disk; partition editor, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, formerly known as Gnome Disk Utility or palimpsest
  • GParted – utility for the hard disk; partition editor
  • GDM – X display manager
  • GNOME Keyring Manager – Password manager
  • GNOME Screensaver – Simple screensaver configuration
  • Alacarte – Menu editor

    End-user utilities

  • Archive Manager – archive manager
  • Cheese – webcam application
  • Conduit Synchronizer – Photo/music/notes/files etc. synchronization
  • Eye of GNOME – official image-viewer for GNOME
  • Getting Things GNOME! – Personal tasks management software
  • gnee – A GNOME GUI and a panel applet that can be used to record and replay test cases.
  • Hardinfo2 - System information and benchmarking
  • GNOME Boxes – Application to access remote or virtual systems
  • GNOME Screenshot – take screenshots of desktop and windows
  • GNOME Calculator – calculator
  • GNOME Commander – Two-panel graphical file manager
  • GNOME Files – File manager, formerly called Nautilus
  • GNOME Terminal – Terminal emulator
  • Gnote – Note-taking software in C++
  • – drop-down terminal emulator
  • Gucharmap – Character map
  • Guvcview – webcam application
  • Orca – Scriptable screen-reader
  • Scribes – Text editor
  • Seahorse – PGP and SSH key-manager
  • Sushi – File previewer
  • Terminator - Terminal emulator
  • – drop-down terminal emulator
  • Tomboy – Note-taking software in C#
  • Vinagre – VNC client
  • Vino – VNC server

    Games

  • GNOME Games – collection of games in Vala and C, now archived
  • Lutris - video game manager/launcher

    Abstract strategy games

  • GNOME Chess – new 2d graphical front-end written in Vala
  • PyChess – Chess implementation

    Puzzle games

  • GNOME Mines – Minesweeper-clone
  • gbrainy – Brain teaser game

    Graphics

Graphics editors

Web browsers

Optical disc authoring software

Video players

Chemistry

Despite the immense popularity of Qt, there continues to be science software using the GUI widgets of version 2 of GTK toolkit. Whether this is going to remain that way, or whether the software will be ported to some current version of GTK remains to be seen.