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Category: Desktop

Tiling Window Managers

wmderland – X11 tiling window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

wmderland is an X11 tiling window manager using space partitioning trees with no bloated features and a tiny disk footprint.

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Ratpoison – simple window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no fat library dependencies. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.

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EXWM – full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.

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herbstluftwm – manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib. herbstluftwm is written from scratch.

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bspwm – tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

bspwm is a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. It represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.

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StumpWM – tiling, keyboard driven X11 window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

StumpWM is a tiling, window manager written entirely in Common Lisp. It attempts to be highly customizable while relying entirely on the keyboard for input.

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i3 – improved tiling window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.

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Compositing Window Managers

sway – tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Sway is an i3-compatible tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.

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Desktop Environments

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Docks

September 29, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Software, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 docks that genuinely add to the desktop experience.

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Desktop Environments

Avant Window Navigator – dock-like bar

September 29, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a free and open source Mac OS X like panel for the GNOME Desktop written in C.

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