Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Window Managers
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Window Managers for Desktop Operating Systems
Browse free open source Window Managers and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Window Managers by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Fluxbox is a X11 windowmanager build for speed and flexibility.
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icewm is a window manager for the X Window System. The features of icewm are speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.
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Star Trek 24/7: LCARS (Starfleet) GUI, full-screen alarm clock & calendar, games, utilities, sims, maps, graphical LCARS library, file manager, viewers, players, animation. Requires a HighColor/TrueColor DOS-based laptop w/ std. graphics & sound cards.
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Twin - Textmode WINdow environment
Twin is a "retro" program for embedded or remote systems
Twin is a text-mode window environment. It supports mouse and multiple windows, has a built-in terminal emulator and window manager, and can serve as display for client applications. Its retro look-and-feel comes with very modern features: it is best described as a VNC-like server, that can use a variety of displays - all with mouse support: from a plain text terminal, to a Linux console, to a full kde, gnome or X11 desktop. Source code hosted at https://github.com/cosmos72/twin -
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notion
Tabbed, tiling window manager.
Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system: * Tiling: you divide the screen into non-overlapping 'tiles'. Every window occupies one tile, and is maximized to it * Tabbing: a tile may contain multiple windows - they will be 'tabbed' * Static: most tiled window managers are 'dynamic', meaning they automatically resize and move around tiles as windows appear and disappear. Notion, by contrast, does not automatically change the tiling. You're in control. Features include: * Workspaces: each workspace has its own tiling * Multihead: the mod_xinerama plugin provides very nice dual-monitor support * RandR: mod_xrandr expands on mod_xinerama and picks up changes in the randr configuration without the need for restarting Notion * Extensibility: Notion can be extended with lua scripts. -
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EMWM
Enhanced Motif Window Manager and Utilities
Enhanced Motif Window Manager (MWM fork). Supports Xinerama, Xrandr, UTF-8/Xft, and relevant Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) . A simple session manager and a /toolchest/ like launcher are available in the separate utilities package. Documentation and more on the project homepage: https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html -
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Super Winlock
Super WinLock is a vb.net project made by New Door
Windows 8 Lock Screen (Super WinLock) is a vb.net project that allows you to have a lock screen like the windows 8 lock screen in your Windows 7 machine. You can use it as screen saver, lock screen or just for fun. -
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sWM (the Small Window Manager) provides a very fast user interface and some rather uncommon features you won't find in other small footprint window managers. sWM is GNOME compliant and also supports pixmap based themes.
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Textbar
Minimalist taskbar replacement using only text on your desktop.
Taskbar replacement that uses only text in a desktop widget style format. Simple UI, click to switch windows, double click to close. Minimalist interface with low memory consumption. -
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Xynth is a portable embedded windowing system, client/server interface between display hardware (mouse, keyboard, video displays) and the desktop environment that works on many hardware, including embedded devices (handhelds, set-top boxes, etc.). Move project source to github: https://github.com/alperakcan/xynth
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YANSYS
yet another x11 minimal operating system
It's so experimental! it could EEXPLODDDEEEE!!!!!! seriously, i'm still fricking around with suse, don't expect anything too special -
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AntiWM is a small and simple window manager with a focus on productivity and utility. Inspired by ratpoison, AntiWM is keyboard driven and handles all windows fullscreen.
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DeskGuide
Multiple desktop emulation in Windows
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Fast File Finder 1.0 by Autosofted
This tool can search your entire computer for a file very quickly.
The Autosofted Fast File Finder is a free tool used to quickly search your entire computer for a file your looking for. Although file searching can be done using your computer's folder explorer, the process is quite slow and your computer might freeze in the middle of all the searching due to limits in your computer's searching power. The Fast File Finder can search through all files typically in under 30 seconds. In most cases, this tool can scan all results in under 20 seconds. -
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Translation team with the primary objective to translate and maintain the translations of some useful SourceForge.net Projects. GUI and CLI applications, PHP, Java and Documentation for Linux, Apple MAC & BSD and Windows. More info on our homepage.
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The purpose of this Project is to provide a compatible implementation of the original Indigo Magic Desktop founded on SGI IRIX systems. We changed the name to :Maxx Interactive Desktop and our new home is at: maxxdesktop.co
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MultiTabber
Provide virtual screens on any windows plateform.
The purpose of this application is to provide a system to group applications. This is in aid of providing a solution to the common problem of having a cluttered task-bar. The Multi-Tabber application provides easy and efficient way of group and organizing open application on your task-bar. Example of the virtual desktop panel -
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Multiple Desktops for Windows is a fast, lightweight application that provides in the Windows environment a function similar to Linux workspaces. It allows to organize your windows in various desktops and to move them between desktops.
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PhaseTimer
Create randomized alarm intervals to Induce altered states.
The phase timer is a timer with a highly customizable alarm. The idea is to set off an alarm strategically all throughout the night to help the physical body bring conscious awareness into a dream, or enter a borderland state for an OBE. -
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Wmseti and wmufo are dock app monitors for controlling multiple setiathome directories. Both display alternating lines of statistics Wmseti has alien faces appearing out of the darkness. Wmufo has animated flying ufos'.
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sawfish.wm.ext.pager is a c/lisp extension that provides a functional desktop pager for the sawfish window manager. Originally written by Daniel Pfeiffer.
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TextDoc Compare Utility
Compare 2 different text or doc files to find the differences
This tool can allow you to compare two different text or doc files and will show you of the differences between those 2 files. This utility is very simple to use, you just need to select 2 files and click "Compare". You can also filter your results to only show changes done on one of the two files. This tool is completely free to download.
