Magpie is a soft-fork of GNOME’s Mutter.
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Category: Desktop
Moksha – modern iteration of the Enlightenment window manager
Moksha is an advanced window manager for X11 based on Enlightenment DR17.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Mission Control
Apple Mission Control offers a bird’s-eye view of all your open windows, desktop spaces, and apps.
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LCARS Desktop Environment – desktop experience reminiscent of a LCARS interface
LCARS Desktop Environment, official project name lcarsde, is a desktop environment that mimics the LCARS interface from Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Collector – drag and drop to the next level
Collector is software that lets you drag multiple files and folders on to a Collection window. It’s an alternative to Dropover for macOS.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Docks
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 11 docks that genuinely add to the desktop experience.
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12 Best Free and Open Source GUI-Based Calendar Software
You don’t need a proprietary hosted solution for your calendar needs. There are open source projects offering a perfect fit.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Desktop Search Engines
Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.
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DDE Dock – dock of Deepin Desktop Environment
DDE Dock is the dock of Deepin Desktop Environment. The new Dock consists of the traditional Dock and Tray (system level and program level).
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xpybar – highly extensible minimalistic dock panel
xpybar is a minimalistic dock panel. Its source code is designed so that all parts of it can be replaced by a configuration script.
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Crystal Dock – dock (desktop panel) for the Linux desktop
Crystal Dock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 6.
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Kando – pie menu to launch applications, simulate hotkeys, open URLs
Kando is a highly customizable pie menu for the desktop which allows you to create your own menus and actions.
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rough – GTK based app launcher
rough is a GTK based application launcher. This is free and open source software.
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rlaunch – modern application launcher
rlaunch is a fast, lightweight and modern application launcher for X11.
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Onagre – general purpose application launcher
Onagre is a general purpose application launcher for X and Wayland inspired by rofi/wofi and alfred.
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Marvin – app launcher
Marvin is an application launcher and much more. The program uses different modules to provide different functionalities.
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gravel – application launcher
gravel is a cross-platform application launcher for Linux and Windows.
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Catapult – app launcher for Linux
Catapult is an app launcher for Linux. The software allows you to easily launch apps, open files and do basic calculations.
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Linux Candy: Fantascene – dynamic wallpaper
Fantascene is a wallpaper changer. But it’s not a bog standard changer. It plays video wallpapers on your background.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors
This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.
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