Noctalia is billed as a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland that actually gets out of your way.
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Category: Desktop
Mending Wall – fixes common problems when using more than one desktop environment
Mending Wall is a Linux application to fix issues when hopping between multiple desktop environments.
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Vicinae – native launcher for the desktop
Vicinae is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt.
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Walker – fast application launcher
Walker is a fast, customizable application launcher built with GTK4 and Rust, designed for Linux desktop environments.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Sticky Note Applications
A sticky note (often known as a Post-it Note) is a small piece of paper with a strip of glue on its back. Here’s our verdict.
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12 Best Free and Open Source GUI Weather Tools
Here’s our verdict on the best GUI weather tools. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.
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18 Best Free and Open Source Media Players
A media player is software that lets you watch video and listen to music on your computer. We cover the best free and open source options.
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42 Excellent GNOME Shell Extensions
Add additional functionality to a GNOME desktop with these great GNOME extensions. This roundup showcases 42 cool GNOME extensions.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Wayland Compositors
This article focuses on stacking Wayland compositors. Only free and open source software is included in this article.
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croissant – stacking Wayland compositor
croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that’s written in the C programming language.
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Jay – Wayland compositor
Jay is a Wayland compositor which offers an i3 look and feel.
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Miriway – Mir based Wayland compositor
Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.
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stagen – wlroots-based wayland compositor
stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.
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Mahogany – tiling window manager for Wayland
Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM.
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Hopalong – simple Wayland compositor
Hopalong is a simple Wayland compositor with a feature set that’s comparable to XFWM.
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wlmaker – Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker
wlmaker is a Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker, an X11 window manager originally designed to integrate with GNUstep.
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niri – scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
Niri is heavily inspired by PaperWM which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell.
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Woodland – wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland
Woodland is a minimal Wayland compositor based on wlroots and inspired by Wayfire and TinyWl.
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19 Useful Free and Open Source PDF Manipulation Tools
We recommend the best free and open source PDF manipulation tools offering some genuinely useful software.
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NsCDE – Not so Common Desktop Environment
NsCDE is a modern and functional CDE desktop based on the FVWM window manager.
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