Complementary Packages and Applications

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Steven Allen edited this page Nov 2, 2025 · 3 revisions

The list of packages that makes Emacs an operating system.

Terminal Emulation

VTerm (libvterm)

https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/

Eat

https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat/

eshell

Built in, see more here: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Eshell

ansi-term / termurl

Built in, see more here: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AnsiTerm

Status Bars

Polybar

https://github.com/polybar/polybar

Issues/Fixes

Childframe misalignment

https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm/issues/31

i3bar.el

https://github.com/Stebalien/i3bar.el

A status bar that displays the status from any i3bar-compatible program in the Emacs tab-bar.

Other bars

Note that not all bars are tested for compatibility. https://github.com/kimond/awesome-statusbars

Input method

https://github.com/tumashu/pyim

Office

https://github.com/kjambunathan/org-mode-ox-odt

GUI framework

https://github.com/manateelazycat/emacs-application-framework

Tray

https://github.com/kiennq/emacs-mini-modeline

Key remapper

https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail https://github.com/kozikow/keyremaplinux https://github.com/snyball/Hawck https://github.com/david-janssen/kmonad

Camera/Webcam

https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-camera