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Desktop Environments

Docky – full fledged dock application

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Docky is a fully fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.

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Desktop Environments

Cairo-Dock – desktop interface

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Cairo-Dock is an attractive, lightweight eye-candy dock. It has a family-likeness with the OS X dock, but with more options.

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Desktop Environments

Simdock – small dock with pseudo-transparency and good window handling

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Simdock is a dockbar that features a zoom effect (like the OS X dock) and customized launchers. Free and open source software.

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Desktop Environments

Plank – simple, fast and beautiful dock

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more.

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Search

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Desktop Search Engines

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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Calendar

13 Best Free and Open Source GUI-Based Calendar Software

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

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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Screen Capture

wayscrollshot – scrolling screenshot tool for Wayland

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, GUI

wayscrollshot is a scrolling screenshot tool for Wayland that captures and stitches images in real-time as you scroll.

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Application Launchers

Raffi – application launcher

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Raffi is an application launcher designed to sit on top of Fuzzel, or, if preferred, operate using its own built‑in interface.

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Application Launchers

Hamr – desktop launcher

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, GUI

Hamr learns from your usage patterns to surface what you need, when you need it. Type a few characters to launch apps, calculate math…

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Application Launchers

Kickoff – Minimalistic program launcher

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Kickoff is a minimalistic program launcher that is heavily inspired by rofi.

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Dynamic Window Managers

7 Best Free and Open Source Dynamic Window Managers

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

A dynamic window manager is a tiling window manager where windows are tiled based on preset layouts between which the user can switch.

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Compositing Window Managers

20 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.

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Compositing Window Managers

Volare – Wayland compositor

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Volare is a tabbed, tiling Wayland compositor written in the C language

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Application Launchers

Proslenkey – application launcher

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Proslenkey is a lightweight GTK4 application launcher for Wayland.

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Application Launchers

zlaunch – application launcher and window switcher

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

zlaunch is a fast application launcher and window switcher for Linux Wayland, built with GPUI.

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Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop – modern looking desktop environment

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop is a portable, innovative and traditional but modern looking desktop environment for Linux.

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Desktop

Wardrobe – prettify your desktop

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Wardrobe is a utility for installing community-made Gnome Shell, GTK3/4, icon, and cursor themes as well as wallpapers.

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Compositing Window Managers

fht-compositor – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

fht-compositor is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that implements a window management model inspired by X11 window managers such as dwm and xmonad.

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Application Launchers

Stryde – application launcher

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

Stryde is an application launcher that’s in an early stage of development.

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Selection of utilities

DankMaterialShell – desktop shell

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

DankMaterialShell is a complete desktop shell for niri, Hyprland, MangoWC, Sway, labwc, and other Wayland compositors.

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