Open Source Windows Desktop Environment Software
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View 69 business solutionsBrowse free open source Desktop Environment software and projects for Windows below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Desktop Environment software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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SysAid is an ITSM, Service Desk and Help Desk software solution that integrates all of the essential IT tools into one product. Its rich set of features include a powerful Help Desk, IT Asset Management, and other easy-to-use tools for analyzing and optimizing IT performance.
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Microsoft's TrueType core fonts
A smart package of Microsoft's core fonts
So far this project consists of a source rpm that can be used to easily create a binary rpm package that, when installed, gives access to Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the Web. -
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KeePass
A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it’s nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish. See our features page for details. -
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GnuWin
Provides native Win32 open source ports and utilities
GnuWin provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, relying only on libraries provided with any modern 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 -
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Tcl
The Tool Command Language implementation
Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very portable interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and has been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout. Bug reports to http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/ Follow code development at http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/ -
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Borderless Gaming
A simple tool for turning windowed video games into fullscreen apps
Play your favorite games fullscreen and borderless with Borderless Gaming. It's a simple tool that allows you to turn windowed video games into "fullscreen" applications without all of the negative side effects and time-consuming alt-tabs. -
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TranslucentTB
A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar transparent
TranslucentTB is a utility that makes the taskbar on Windows 10 translucent/transparent. It is very lightweight, utilizing just a few MB of RAM and almost no CPU power. TranslucentTB gives your Windows desktop a cleaner, more visually appealing look and feel, and comes with a great range of features. This includes: an advanced color picker with a live preview feature for changing the taskbar color; different taskbar states that can be color-customized; and dynamic modes which change the appearance of the taskbar depending on what is being opened on your PC. -
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Windows X-server based on the xorg git sources (like xming or cygwin's xwin), but compiled with Visual C++ 2012 Express Edition. Source code can also be compiled with VS2008, VS2008 Express Edition and VS2010 Express Edition, although current project and makefile are not fully compatible anymore. Versions starting from 1.14.3.0 are not compatible with Windows XP anymore.
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Q4OS
Efficient, Rock Stable Operating System
Q4OS is a fast and friendly, desktop oriented operating system based on Debian Linux. It deploys Plasma, optionally Trinity, as desktop environment on top of Debian Linux rock stable base. The goal is to provide long-term supported system with a special emphasis on security. This is exactly what Debian base guarantees. We prefer the Debian development model to keep the core system as immutable as possible. It results in a reliable and stable system that you can definitely rely on. Thanks to unique Q4OS tools a user can rather easily achieve setup of a fitted system eliminating superfluous packages and libraries. Therefore Q4OS performs faster and more efficient, doesn't exploit memory and computing resources with useless tasks and processes. Another exclusive Q4OS feature is an optimized support for setting up Trinity desktop environment alongside the default Plasma desktop. Installed side by side, carefully separated, both ready to run as needed. Just select one at login. -
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Open-Shell
Classic Shell Reborn, Windows enhancement software
Improve your productivity and user experience with Open Shell, a Windows start menu alternative for Windows 10. Bringing back the classic start menu style, OpenShell is a fork and continuation of the project Classic Shell. -
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GnuCash
Personal and small-business finance manager
GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles. -
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Dual Monitor Tools
Tools for Windows users with dual or multiple monitors.
Tools for Windows users with dual or multiple monitors. Has hotkeys for moving windows around, restrict mouse/cursor movement between screens, application launcher, wallpaper creator and changer and a screen capture tool. -
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Source Han Sans
Set of OpenType Pan-CJK fonts
Source Han Sans is a set of OpenType Pan-CJK fonts. In addition to functional OpenType fonts, this open source project provides all of the source files that were used to build these OpenType fonts by using the AFDKO tools. Individual font resources or ZIP files for various deployment configurations are available for download. To help decide which fonts to download, please refer to the Configurations section of the official font readme file. Those who are unfamiliar with GitHub are encouraged to reference the official Source Han download guide, which is provided in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. You can also download entire releases that include all available configurations in two ZIP files. To build the binary font files from source, you need to have installed the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO). The AFDKO tools are widely used for font development today, and are part of most font editor applications. -
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OOO Extras
Extra tools for OpenOffice under weak copyleft or other licenses
A space to store classic OOo dependencies that cannot be easily redistributed in Apache OpenOffice's Source tree. Initially this was meant for copyleft tarballs only but it is also pretty handy to mirror other file dependencies. -
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uGet, the Best Download Manager for Linux. uGet is a lightweight yet powerful Open Source download manager for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+, which also comes packaged as a portable Windows app. - Quick Links - Features: https://ugetdm.com/features Screenshots: https://ugetdm.com/screenshots Blog: https://ugetdm.com/blog Support: https://ugetdm.com/qa Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): https://ugetdm.com/qa/faq RSS Feed: https://ugetdm.com/rss GitHub: https://github.com/chhuang-one
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Security, Backup and Disaster Recovery can be a nightmare to manage, we bring it all together for you in a single platform.
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Folder Size for Windows adds a new column to the Windows Explorer details view that displays the sizes of files and folders. A service scans your hard disk in the background and caches the results. Designed for performance!
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HeSuVi
Headphone Surround Virtualizations for Equalizer APO
This tool imitates the 7.1 to binaural sound effect of many surround virtualizations by making use of Equalizer APO's convolution filter. Available are impulse response that were recorded with activated... – Dolby Atmos Headphone – CMSS-3D – SBX Pro Studio Surround (also found in BlasterX Acoustic Engine & THX TruStudio Pro) – Dolby Headphone – Sennheiser GSX Binaural 7.1 – DTS Headphone:X – Windows Sonic Headphone – Dolby Home Theater v4 Headphone Surround Virtualizer – Razer Surround – Out Of Your Head – Flux HEar V3 – OpenAL and DirectSound3D HRTFs – Waves Nx – and many more! Visit the wiki for more information on how it works and how to set up: https://sourceforge.net/p/hesuvi/wiki/Help/ A little demonstration video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlqpG2euh50 Equalizer APO by Jonas Thedering has to be installed first: https://equalizerapo.sourceforge.io -
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Digital Clock 4
beautiful customizable clock with plugins
Very customizable beautiful clock. PROJECT IS CLOSED AND NO LONGER MAINTAINED! The final version is 4.7.9. Windows 10 ready! Supported macOS version is 10.12+. Retina display ready! Apple silicon based macs (i.e. M1) are NOT supported! Linux build is available only for 64-bit systems. Nothing special required to start using this clock. Just launch it and enjoy! When it starts, apart the clock itself, small tray icon appears (if system tray is available). Tray icon color depends on operating system, in most cases it is black, but on Windows 10 and macOS with dark theme it is white. This tray icon can be used to call clock configuration dialog. Also this dialog can be called using clock context menu. You can create your own skin! See this link for details: https://sourceforge.net/p/digitalclock4/wiki/How%20to%20create%20skin/ NOTE: do NOT download any .rar or .exe files marked as my software, these files are made NOT by me and I'm not responsible for their content! -
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Cascadia Code
A fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures
This project contains the source code for Cascadia Code, a fun yet modern monospaced font that includes programming ligatures. Cascadia was designed to enhance the look and feel of the Windows Terminal, with three variants: Cascadia Code, the standard version of the font; Cascadia Mono, which is the version without Ligatures; and Cascadia PL, the version embedded with Powerline symbols. For Windows or any other OS that employs TrueType hinting, it is recommended to use the TTF version to achieve optimal rendering quality, though the OTF version is also provided. -
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GTK+2 for Windows Runtime Environment
The files required to run GTK+ applications on Windows
This is the GTK+2 Runtime Environment Installer for Windows. It includes all of the files required to run GTK+2 applications on Windows. Some support tools are also available. -
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Xming X Server for Windows
X Window System Server for Windows
Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows 8/7/Vista/XP (+ server 2012/2008/2003). It is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation). -
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Operator Mono Ligatures
Add ligatures to Operator Mono similar to Fira Code
Add ligatures to Operator Mono similar to Fira Code. This project will generate new OpenType fonts for Operator Mono that includes ligatures similar to those found in the popular Fira Code font. These ligatures were custom-created using Glyphs. There are even italic versions of the ligatures. All new redesigned ligatures with better hinting. Updated font generation to support advanced OpenType features like those found in Fira Code. For example, the cursor now moves inside the ligature. It also handles repeating characters properly. -
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numpad emulator
Virtual numeric keypad.
Virtual numeric keypad for Windows. -
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PowerToys
System utilities to maximize productivity
PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. -
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Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles
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WinLaunch
OS X Launchpad for Windows
WinLaunch provides a beautiful way to organize and access all of your important applications and documents. The overall style has been heavily influenced by Apples OS X Launchpad. WinLaunch is being actively developed and improved, my goal is to provide the best app launching experience available on Windows. You can now support the development of WinLaunch on Patreon for access to custom themes and priority feature requests https://www.patreon.com/WinLaunch