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Application Launchers

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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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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Wayfire – Wayland compositor based on wlroots

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. This is free and open source software.

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Tiling Window Managers

Notion – tiling, tabbed window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard.

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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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Tiling Window Managers

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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Tiling Window Managers

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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Tiling Window Managers

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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