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Compositing Window Managers

stagen – wlroots-based wayland compositor

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.

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Mahogany – tiling window manager for Wayland

December 9, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM.

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Hopalong – simple Wayland compositor

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

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

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

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

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

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

November 28, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

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

November 27, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Office, Roundup, Utilities

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

November 25, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

NsCDE is a modern and functional CDE desktop based on the FVWM window manager.

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Magpie – X11 window manager and compositor library

November 24, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Magpie is a soft-fork of GNOME’s Mutter.

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Moksha – modern iteration of the Enlightenment window manager

November 24, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Moksha is an advanced window manager for X11 based on Enlightenment DR17.

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