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LeftWM – window manager for adventurers
LeftWM is designed to do one thing and to do that one thing well: be a window manager.
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Pleroma – microblogging server software
Pleroma is a microblogging server software that can federate (= exchange messages with) other servers that support ActivityPub.
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GNU social – social communication software used in federated social networks
GNU social is a free social networking platform.
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Misskey – decentralized social media platform
Misskey is a distributed microblogging software that has been developed since 2014.
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Firefish – powerful microblogging server
Firefish is a powerful microblogging server on ActivityPub with features such as emoji reactions, a customizable web UI, rich chatting
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appImageHelper – create, delete, control and organize shortcuts to AppImage
appImageHelper is software for creating, deleting, controlling and organizing shortcuts to AppImage.
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appimaged – AppImage daemon
appimaged is an experimental implementation of the optional AppImage daemon, appimaged, in Go.
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AIDM – create desktop shortcuts to AppImage applications
AppImage Desktop Maker (AIDM) is simple software that creates desktop shortcuts to .AppImage applications.
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Dusk Player – Electron-based music player
Dusk Player is software that’s billed as a minimalistic music player.
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Axelor Open Suite – universal and modern platform dedicated to business applications
Axelor Open Suite seeks to reduce the complexity and improve responsiveness of business processes.
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Yazi – terminal file manager
Yazi is billed as a blazingly fast TUI file manager with asynchronous support. It’s written in Rust.
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newm-atha – Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind
polonium – tiling window manager for KWin
polonium is a tiling window manager for KWin.
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SwayFX – Sway with eye candy
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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Cagebreak – Wayland Tiling Compositor inspired by Ratpoison
The goal of this project is to provide a successor to ratpoison for Wayland users.
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japokwm – wlroots and dwl based tiling wayland compositor
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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river – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
river is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible runtime configuration.
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dwl – dwm for Wayland
dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots.
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Hyprland – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn’t sacrifice on its looks.
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