Gala is a window and compositing manager based on libmutter.
The program is designed by elementary for use with Pantheon. Pantheon is the desktop environment used by elementary OS, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS.
Gala is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Plugins to extend functionality of the window manager.
- Good keyboard shortcuts.
- Internationalization support.
Website: github.com/elementary/gala
Support:
Developer: Cody Garver, Daniel Fore, Garden Gnome, Niels Avonds, Rico Tzschichholz, Sergey “Shnatsel” Davidoff, Timo Reimerdes, Tom Beckmann
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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