Variety is a wallpaper manager for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.
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Category: Desktop
Stretchly – reminder to take breaks
Stretchly is a cross-platform Electron program that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer. Stretchly is free and open source software.
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23 Best Free Linux Window Managers
A window manager manages the windows that applications bring up. We recommend the best c.ompositing, stacking, tiling, and dynamic window managers.
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7 Best Free Compositing Window Managers
A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window. The window manager composites the window buffers into an image representing the screen and writes the result into the display memory.
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Linux Candy: Boxes – command line ASCII boxes
Boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. It can spice up news posting, emails, documenting files, and much more.
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tint2 – simple and light open source taskbar
tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar made for window managers. It was specifically made for Openbox, a popular stacking window manager.
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24 Excellent KDE Plasma Widgets (Updated 2020)
KDE is most of the most popular desktop environments. It’s also one of the most configurable. KDE widgets (sometimes called Plasmoids) help to improve the user experience. Here’s our favorites.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Manage your Personal Collections – Week 36
For this week’s blog, Luke looks at a few best-of-breed collection management programs. Free and open source goodness as usual.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Terminal Emulators – Week 35
For this week’s blog, Luke examines terminal emulators on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Desktop Searching – Week 34
For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke puts a desktop search tool under the microscope.
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