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Application Launchers

Catapult – app launcher for Linux

May 17, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

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

April 23, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews

Fantascene is a wallpaper changer. But it’s not a bog standard changer. It plays video wallpapers on your background.

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Compositing Window Managers

13 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors

February 9, 2024 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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Tiling Window Managers

9 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Window Managers

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

There are a few different types of window managers. This article recommends the best tiling window managers.

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Dynamic Window Managers

7 Best Free and Open Source Dynamic Window Managers

February 1, 2024 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

newm-atha – Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

newm-atha is a Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind. It’s a fork of newm.

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Compositing Window Managers

polonium – tiling window manager for KWin

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

polonium is a tiling window manager for KWin.

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SwayFX – Sway with eye candy

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

SwayFX is a fork of Sway. This fork was developed on the basis that Sway is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3.

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Compositing Window Managers

Cagebreak – Wayland Tiling Compositor inspired by Ratpoison

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

The goal of this project is to provide a successor to ratpoison for Wayland users.

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Compositing Window Managers

japokwm – wlroots and dwl based tiling wayland compositor

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

japokwm is a dynamic tiling wayland compositor where you are able to create new layouts without the hassle of editing the source code.

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Compositing Window Managers

river – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

river is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible runtime configuration.

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Compositing Window Managers

dwl – dwm for Wayland

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots.

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Hyprland – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn’t sacrifice on its looks.

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Remote Display

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Screen Sharing

November 17, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Software

Apple Screen Sharing allows you to remotely access an Apple desktop system environment. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Compositing Window Managers

7 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers

November 17, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.

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Best Free Window Managers

wmii – dynamic window manager

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

wmii is a dynamic window manager. Highy customizable and usable with keyboard and mouse. It supports conventional, tabbed and tiled window management.

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Best Free Window Managers

dwm – dynamic window manager

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

dwm is a minimalistic window manager. It manages windows in tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically.

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Best Free Window Managers

Xmonad – dynamically tiling X11 window manager

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Xmonad is a minimalist, tiling window manager for X, written in the functional programming language Haskell.

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Application Launchers

Kupfer – smart, quick launcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Kupfer is software designed to change, speed up and make everything about files and programs more fun on your computer.

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Application Launchers

bashrun2 – start programs from interactive bash sessions

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

bashrun2 is an application launcher based on a modified bash session in a small terminal window, providing all the well known bash features like tab-completion and history.

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