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Stacking Window Managers

Blackbox – window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Blackbox is a window manager for the X Window System. Its design is meant to be visually minimalist and fast.

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WindowMaker – window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Window Maker is a window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment.

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Sawfish – extensible window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Sawfish (formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language called Librep.

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Foreign Languages

Perroquet – prepare sequences of video or audio files, with subtitles

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Perroquet is a free and open source application that allows users to prepare sequences of video or audio files, with subtitles.

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Pekwm – window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

The Pek Window Manager is a small, flexible window manager which was originally based on the aewm++ window manager.

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Foreign Languages

FLTR – Foreign Language Text Reader

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

FLTR is an open source application that helps you to do both extensive and intensive reading as part of your foreign language acquisition.

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Step into Chinese – language-mining tool

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Step Into Chinese is a language-mining tool to assist English speakers seeking to understand the Chinese language.

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Openbox – window manager with extensive standards support

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Openbox is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. It was originally based on Blackbox and currently remains very similar.

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OpenTeacher – learn a variety of subjects

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

OpenTeacher is an open source application that helps you in learning a foreign language vocabulary. Enter words and be tested.

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Tagaini Jisho – Japanese dictionary and kanji lookup tool

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Tagaini Jisho is a Japanese vocabulary and kanji dictionary that aims at presenting results in a way to create connections.

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IceWM – stacking window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks.

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Learning with Texts – language learning software

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Learning with Texts (LWT) is a tool for language learning, inspired by Stephen Krashen’s principles in Second Language Acquisition.

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Fluxbox – window manager for X

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Fluxbox is a window manager that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle.

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Enlightenment – window manager and desktop environment

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

The Enlightenment (“E) window manager is a robust, flexible, highly configurable, graphically rich yet unobtrusive desktop environment for X.

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evilwm – minimalist window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. It works by drawing a one pixel border around each window.

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Marco – MATE default window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Marco is a fork of GNOME Metacity. Marco is the default window manager for MATE, the continuation of GNOME 2.

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Worm – tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Gala is a window and compositing manager based on libmutter. The program is designed by elementary for use with Pantheon.

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