Running gvidm will pop up a list of available modes and allows the user to select one if desired. This makes it perfect for running from an application menu or a hotkey, so you don't have to use ram for an applet constantly running. If you are running dual or multi-head displays, it will give you a list of screens so you can select the appropriate one.

gnuit (GNU Interactive Tools) is a set of interactive text-mode tools, closely integrated with the shell. It contains an extensible file system browser (similar to Norton Commander and XTree), an ASCII/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer and some other related utilities and shell scripts. It can be used to increase the speed and efficiency of most of the daily tasks such as copying and moving files and directories, invoking editors, compressing and uncompressing files, creating and expanding archives, compiling programs, sending mail, etc. It looks nice, has colors (if the standard ANSI color sequences are supported) and is user-friendly.

algotutor is an interactive program for observing the intermediate steps of algorithms ("algorithm animation"). The target audience is computer science students and/or anyone who studies algorithms and/or data structures. One can create data files in plain text format (actually perl anonymous hashes, but one need not care) and let algotutor runs through some predefined algorithm. Then one can step backward and forward through the execution sequence of the algorithm at different levels of details.

mu4e (mu-for-emacs) is an e-mail client for GNU-Emacs version 23 and later, built on top of the mu e-mail search engine. mu4e is optimized for fast handling of large amounts of e-mail.

cdck (CD/DVD check tool) is a simple console program to verify CD/DVD quality. The known fact is that even if all files on the disc are readable, some sectors having bad timing can easily turn into unreadable ones in the future.