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Category: Desktop

Stacking Window Managers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Mission Control

November 2, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Apple Mission Control offers a bird’s-eye view of all your open windows, desktop spaces, and apps.

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Desktop Environments

LCARS Desktop Environment – desktop experience reminiscent of a LCARS interface

October 28, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

LCARS Desktop Environment, official project name lcarsde, is a desktop environment that mimics the LCARS interface from Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Collector – drag and drop to the next level

October 11, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

Collector is software that lets you drag multiple files and folders on to a Collection window. It’s an alternative to Dropover for macOS.

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DDE Dock – dock of Deepin Desktop Environment

June 21, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

DDE Dock is the dock of Deepin Desktop Environment. The new Dock consists of the traditional Dock and Tray (system level and program level).

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xpybar – highly extensible minimalistic dock panel

June 19, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

xpybar is a minimalistic dock panel. Its source code is designed so that all parts of it can be replaced by a configuration script.

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Crystal Dock – dock (desktop panel) for the Linux desktop

June 18, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews

Crystal Dock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 6.

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Application Launchers

Kando – pie menu to launch applications, simulate hotkeys, open URLs

May 28, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Kando is a highly customizable pie menu for the desktop which allows you to create your own menus and actions.

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rough – GTK based app launcher

May 25, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

rough is a GTK based application launcher. This is free and open source software.

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rlaunch – modern application launcher

May 24, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

rlaunch is a fast, lightweight and modern application launcher for X11.

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Onagre – general purpose application launcher

May 22, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Onagre is a general purpose application launcher for X and Wayland inspired by rofi/wofi and alfred.

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Marvin – app launcher

May 21, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Marvin is an application launcher and much more. The program uses different modules to provide different functionalities.

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Application Launchers

gravel – application launcher

May 20, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

gravel is a cross-platform application launcher for Linux and Windows.

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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

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

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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Compositing Window Managers

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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