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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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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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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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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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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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Application Launchers

dmenu – fast and lightweight dynamic menu

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

dmenu is a fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X. It reads arbitrary text from stdin, and creates a menu with one item for each line.

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Application Launchers

Gnome-Pie – slick application launcher for Linux

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Gnome-Pie is a circular application launcher for Linux that’s meant to be fun, easy to use, fast, and visually attractive.

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Application Launchers

rofi – window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

rofi is a window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement. Its main aim is to improve your workflow, allowing users to quickly switch between windows, start applications or log into a remote machine via ssh.

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Application Launchers

Synapse – semantic launcher written in Vala

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Synapse is a semantic graphical launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files.

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Application Launchers

lxqt-runner – LXQt application launcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

lxqt-runner is a tool used to launch programs quickly by typing their names. A calculator function is implemented too.

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Application Launchers

Launchy – application launcher tool

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Launchy is a utility designed to help users forget about the application menu, the icons on the desktop, and even the file manager.

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fuzzel – application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Fuzzel is a Wayland-native application launcher, similar to rofi’s drun mode. It’s free and open source software.

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xstarter – application launcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

xstarter is an application launcher for Linux. It lives in the terminal and works well with tiling window managers (e.g. xmonad, i3 etc).

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Compositing Window Managers

Weston – lightweight and functional Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, and more.

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Compositing Window Managers

labwc – Lab Wayland Compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.

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Compositing Window Managers

hikari – stacking Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

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