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Compositing Window Managers

Weston – lightweight and functional Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, and more.

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labwc – Lab Wayland Compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.

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hikari – stacking Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

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Wayfire – Wayland compositor based on wlroots

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. This is free and open source software.

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Tiling Window Managers

Notion – tiling, tabbed window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard.

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wmderland – X11 tiling window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

wmderland is an X11 tiling window manager using space partitioning trees with no bloated features and a tiny disk footprint.

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Ratpoison – simple window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no fat library dependencies. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.

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EXWM – full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.

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herbstluftwm – manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib. herbstluftwm is written from scratch.

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bspwm – tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

bspwm is a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. It represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.

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StumpWM – tiling, keyboard driven X11 window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

StumpWM is a tiling, window manager written entirely in Common Lisp. It attempts to be highly customizable while relying entirely on the keyboard for input.

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i3 – improved tiling window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.

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Actiona – cross-platform automation tool

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Actiona is an automation tool that allows you to execute many actions on your computer. This is free and open source software.

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SikuliX – automate workflows

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen. It uses image recognition powered by OpenCV to identify GUI components.

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AutoKey – desktop automation utility

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

AutoKey is a desktop automation utility. It allows the automation of virtually any task by responding to typed abbreviations and hotkeys.

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Backup

SafeKeep – centralized and easy to use backup program

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

SafeKeep is a centralized and easy to use backup application that combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.

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Cedar Backup – manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Cedar Backup is a free and open source software package designed to manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines.

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PING – PING Is Not Ghost

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

PING (PING Is Not Ghost) is a free, open source distribution that offers similar functionality to Symantec Ghost. It backs up and restores a hard disk.

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BURP – network backup and restore program

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

BURP (BackUp and Restore Program) is an open source network backup and restore program. It uses librsync to save network traffic.

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XtraBackup – backup utility for MySQL

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Percona XtraBackup is an open-source backup utility for MySQL-based servers that performs non-blocking backups.

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