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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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