Marco is a fork of GNOME Metacity. Marco is the default window manager for MATE, the continuation of GNOME 2.
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Category: Desktop
Worm – tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager
Worm is a tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager. It supports both a floating mode and master-stack tiling with gaps and struts.
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2bwm – fast floating (stacking) window manager
2bwm is a fast, floating, free and open source window manager, with the particularity of having two borders, written over the XCB library.
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cwm – Calm Window Manager – stacking window manager
cwm (Calm Window Manager) is an OpenBSD fork of calmwn, a clean and lightweight stacking window manager. cwm is free and open source software.
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Gala – window and compositing manager based on libmutter
Gala is a window and compositing manager based on libmutter. The program is designed by elementary for use with Pantheon.
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berry – bite-sized window manager
berry is a healthy, bite-sized window manager written in C over the XLib library and the Xft headers. berry is free and open source software.
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JWM – lightweight window manager
JWM (Joe’s Window Manager) a lightweight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is free and open source software.
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xfwm4 – Xfce 4 Window Manager
The Xfce 4 Window Manager (xfwm4) is part of the Xfce Desktop Environment. xfwm4 can be run standalone.
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sowm – itsy bitsy floating window manager
sowm (Simple Opinionated Window Manager) provides fullscreen toggling, window centering and a mixed workflow (i.e. mouse and keyboard).
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KWin – window manager for the KDE Plasma Desktop
KWin is the window manager for the KDE Plasma Desktop. KWin supports compositing, which means using 3D effects for handling windows.
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Mutter – Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. Mutter is free and open source software.
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45 Outstanding Linux Utilities to Maximize your Productivity
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential utilities. These are small, indispensable tools, useful for anyone running a Linux machine.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – Desktop
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering desktop environments, KDE plasma widgets, GNOME extensions, window managers, and docks.
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Junction – application/browser chooser
Junction is an application/browser chooser. It’s designed to improve your workflow by making it easier to switch applications.
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34 Best Free Linux Backup Software (Updated 2023)
Backup software is used to perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server. Here’s the best open source backup software.
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velox – simple window manager based on swc
velox is a simple window manager based on swc. It is inspired by dwm and xmonad.
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newm – Wayland compositor
newm is a Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind.
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Vivarium – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots
Vivarium is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.
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40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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daedalOS – desktop environment in the web browser
daedalOS takes a different approach to the traditional desktop environment such as GNOME and KDE. The aim of the daedalOS project is to make a web-based desktop environment that’s suitable for everyday use.
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