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    Bodhi Linux

    Bodhi Linux

    A minimalist, enlightened Linux distribution

    Bodhi is a minimalistic, enlightened, Linux desktop. Bodhi Linux is extremely lightweight and highly customizable. Bodhi is suitable for both Linux newcomers and experienced users. The Ubuntu LTS assures stability for years and the Bodhi Team is very open to all suggestions and requests from users and willing to help.
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    Downloads: 4,577 This Week
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    Mabox Linux

    Mabox Linux

    Lightweight ready to use OpenBox Desktop Rolling-release Manjaro based

    Mabox is a Manjaro based, desktop Linux distribution. The project ships with Openbox as the default desktop with pinch of customistations and home-brewed tools, like improved menu, side-panels and Mabox Control Center. Works great even on weaker computers.
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    Downloads: 342 This Week
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    CDE - Common Desktop Environment

    CDE - Common Desktop Environment

    The Common Desktop Environment, the classic UNIX desktop

    The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time. For support, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/
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    Downloads: 108 This Week
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    AeroSpace

    AeroSpace

    AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

    AeroSpace is a keyboard-first tiling window manager for macOS that brings i3-/Sway-style workflows to Apple’s windowing environment. Instead of manual dragging and stacking, windows are tiled automatically, and you navigate, move, or resize them using predictable, customizable keybindings. It supports multiple workspaces, per-display organization, and floating exceptions, so you can mix strict tiling with apps that are better left unmanaged. Configurability is a core goal: you can define rules for how specific apps should launch (tile vs. float, workspace placement), adjust gaps and padding, and fine-tune focus behavior. The project aims to feel native on macOS—respecting system features and accessibility—while giving power users the velocity they expect from a tiling manager. For developers and creators juggling many windows and monitors, AeroSpace reduces window fiddling to near zero, turning your desktop into a consistent, scriptable layout you can rely on all day.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    yabai

    yabai

    A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

    yabai is a tiling window manager for macOS that extends the native windowing system with fully scriptable command-line control. It uses a binary space partitioning algorithm to auto-tile windows, supports extensive keyboard shortcut mapping (via skhd), and enhances productivity for power users.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Loop

    Loop

    Window management made elegant.

    Loop is a macOS app that simplifies window management for you. You can effortlessly choose your window direction using a radial menu triggered by a simple key press, and customize it according to your preferences with personalized colors and settings. You can easily move, resize, and arrange your windows with just a few clicks, saving you valuable time and energy. Loop is constantly evolving, with new features and improvements added regularly to enhance your window management experience on macOS.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    TaskbarX

    TaskbarX

    TaskbarX: Customize taskbar icons with animations for a sleek Windows.

    TaskbarX offers precise control over taskbar icon placement, providing a Windows dock-like ambiance. Enjoy customizable animations, speeds, and positioning options. Easily tailor your taskbar to your preferences, with support for vertical taskbars and multiple instances. Developed since May 6, 2018, under the aliases FalconX and Falcon10, TaskbarX ensures a seamless user experience.
    Downloads: 147 This Week
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    Circle Dock
    A circular, oval, and spiral dock for Windows implemented in .Net using C#. It is based on the idea of pie menus but in a dock form. Official Hompage: http://circledock.wikidot.com
    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    Rofi

    Rofi

    A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

    Rofi started as a clone of the simple switcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on a super switcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in menu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. It's not an application that can support every possible use case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. Rofi has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from Rofi or calling Rofi) or plugins.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    SWM

    SWM

    Simple stacking window manager for X11

    SWM is a simple stacking window manager for X. SWM is meant to be controlled using X events and swmctl, its custom command-sending tool. X events could be sent using utilities like xdotool or wmctrl. Their commands, as well as swmctl ones could be mapped to keyboard shortcuts using a utility like sxhkd. You can find an example sxhkd config in the examples.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Arc Dark IceWM theme

    Arc Dark IceWM theme

    Arc-Dark theme for IceWM

    Fork of Arc-Dark theme for IceWM to keep it up to date and fix broken stuff.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Tiling Shell

    Tiling Shell

    Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management

    Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management. Supports multiple monitors, Windows 11 Snap Assistant, Fancy Zones, customised tiling layouts and more. This is a Gnome Shell extension implementing modern windows tiling system by extending GNOME's default 2 columns to any layout you want! Can be installed on Gnome Shells from 40 to 46 on X11 and Wayland: the most recent GNOME Shell is supported, and older releases will include all the features and bug fixes.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Bismuth

    Bismuth

    KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically

    KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm. Arrange your windows in different grids to minimize mouse usage. Save your time by automatically managing windows on your screen. Power up your workflow using native Plasma features - Virtual Desktops and Activities.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Rectangle

    Rectangle

    Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts

    Rectangle is a window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    i3-gaps

    i3-gaps

    A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features

    i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows. In order to use gaps you need to disable window titlebars. This can be done by adding only one command line to your config. Gaps are the namesake feature of i3-gaps and add spacing between windows/containers. Gaps come in two flavors, inner and outer gaps wherein inner gaps are those between two adjacent containers (or a container and an edge) and outer gaps are an additional spacing along the screen edges. Gaps can be configured in your config either globally or per workspace, and can additionally be changed during runtime using commands (e.g., through i3-msg). Outer gaps are added to the inner gaps, i.e., the gaps between a screen edge and a container will be the sum of outer and inner gaps.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    An Openbox menu editor. Edit your complex xml-based openbox menus easily!
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    Downloads: 23 This Week
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    SnapToWindow

    SnapToWindow

    A cross-platform (windows, macOS) window management application

    SnapToWindow is a user-experience utility likely aimed at enhancing window management on desktop environments by enabling users to “snap” application windows into predefined screen positions or layouts using keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures. These kinds of tools are popular for improving productivity, especially on multi-monitor setups, by letting users quickly align and resize windows to halves, quarters, or other grid arrangements without manual dragging. While official project documentation isn’t available from search, the repository name and conventions imply a small, focused tool that hooks into the native windowing system (on Windows, macOS, or Linux) to detect active windows and reposition them based on user commands. It helps streamline workflows for developers, designers, and multitaskers who juggle many open windows and want consistent, repeatable layouts.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    penrose

    penrose

    A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager

    Penrose is a modular library for configuring your own X11 window manager in Rust. This means that, unlike most other tiling window managers, Penrose is not a binary that you install on your system. Instead, you use it like a normal dependency in your own crate for writing your own window manager. Don't worry, the top-level API is well documented and a lot of things will work out of the box, and if you fancy digging deeper you'll find lots of opportunities to customize things to your liking. Penrose was born out of my failed attempts to refactor the dwm codebase into something that I could more easily understand and hack on. While I very much admire and aim for minimalism in code, I personally feel that it becomes a problem when your code base starts playing code golf to keep things short for the sake of it.
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    river

    river

    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

    River is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with a flexible runtime configuration. River can either be run nested in an X11/Wayland session or directly from a tty using KMS/DRM. Simply run the river command. Usually this executable is a shell script invoking riverctl(1) to create mappings, start programs such as a layout generator or status bar, and perform other configuration.
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    screenrotate

    screenrotate

    Small script used to automatically change the various screen rotation

    This program was originally written for the Lenovo flex 5. But if your laptop has iio-sensor-proxy installed and supports it, automatic rotation should work on any laptop. Since version 1.7 I use an ASUS ROG Flow. Therefore new features and patches will be available first on the asus_rog_flow branch.
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    win95-dark

    win95-dark

    Dark win95 IceWM theme

    Dark variant of the win95 theme for IceWM. This theme is, in general, just to be a good-looking, basic dark theme. IceWM has a default theme called win95 which is meant to look similar to the look of the Windows 95 operating system. I like that theme since it's pretty basic, but I wanted a dark version. Light colours are turned into darker colours, and vice versa. Tooltips are slightly yellowish in older Windows versions, so I made them dark turquoise, and title bars have a smoother blue colour.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    This is a set of improved artwiz fonts. They are compatible with the latest fontconfig/Xft-2.0. Thus artwiz fonts work with gtk2/kde3 applications. Multiple encodings are available.
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    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper / background changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Panoramio, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, Google, Vladstudio and deviantART images.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Virtue is a virtual desktop manager for MacOS 10.4. It is based upon the work done by Rich Wareham on DesktopManager (http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/).
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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