ROX-Filer is a simple and easy to use graphical file manager for X11 based on the GTK2 library. It uses a uniform drag-and-drop approach for every operation. It is also the core component of the ROX Desktop Environment. The software
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Compiz Fusion **AWOL**
Compiz Fusion was the result of a merge between the well-known Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras, a community set of improvements to the Compiz composite window manager. Compiz Fusion is depreciated. Return to Window Managers Home Page
Read moreMetacity – compositing window manager
Metacity is a compositing window manager used by default in the GNOME desktop environment. It is the default window manager for many distributions including Ubuntu. It is a small window manager, using GTK+2 to do everything. Metacity focuses on simplicity
Read moreIon – tiling tabbed X11 window manager
Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind. Ion divides the screen into tiles and places windows in these tiles by default. Each tile has a set of tabs for the windows within it. It
Read moreAfterstep – window manager
AfterStep is a window manager based on FVWM which attempts to emulate the NEXTSTEP look and feel, while retaining the configurability of its predecessor. This window manager makes extensive use of the color palette. If you have only an 8-bit
Read moreEtoile – desktop environment
Étoilé intends to be an innovative GNUstep based desktop environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind. It is created with project and document orientation in mind, in order
Read moreFVWM-Crystal – desktop environment
FVWM-Crystal aims to create an easy to use, powerful desktop environment. Unlike many other lightweight environments, it also features plenty of eye-candy. FVWM-Crystal boils down to a set of FVWM configuration files, some Python and shell scripts, a set of
Read moreEquinox Desktop Environment – small and fast desktop environment
EDE is a compact and very portable desktop environment designed to be very lightweight in memory and resource usage. It is based on modified FLTK library (called extended FLTK or just eFLTK). EDE features a desktop, a Windows-like panel with
Read moreROXDesktop – fast, user friendly desktop
The ROX Desktop is a desktop environment, a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE based on the ROX-Filer file manager. It is inspired by the user interface of RISC OS. The interface revolves around the file manager, or filer, following
Read moreLXDE – lightweight desktop environment
LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a project with an objective of providing a desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It is not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the
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