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    FlickOS

    FlickOS

    FlickOS is a lightweight Linux desktop based on Debian 13 with a labwc

    FlickOS 2.1 is a lightweight Linux desktop based on Debian 13 (trixie) with a labwc Wayland session. It ships as a live ISO with the Calamares installer. One hybrid ISO boots BIOS and UEFI and can be written to USB. 64-bit only. Three layouts switch live: Redmond (default, one bottom panel), Cupertino (top bar and dock), and Traditional (top panel and window list). Arc-Dark by default, with a Light desktop style. Optional tiling is off by default (Super+T). Installed systems get a graphical login; the live session logs in automatically. Includes Firefox ESR, LibreOffice, VLC, Bluetooth, printing, Flatpak, PipeWire and NetworkManager. Firewall on (incoming blocked), automatic security updates, and FlickOS desktop updates via apt. No in-place upgrade from FlickOS 1.x (Ubuntu 20.04 / LXLE). Back up and install 2.1 fresh. Source: https://github.com/dvbondoy/FlickOS Discord: https://discord.gg/xmpqbdfep Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/flickos/ License: GPL-3
    Downloads: 290 This Week
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    Window Maker Live

    Window Maker Live

    Window Maker Live Linux Distribution

    Window Maker Live is an installable Linux Live ISO based on the current Trixie branch of Debian. The system uses the Window Maker window manager as the default graphical user interface. Window Maker Live's components have been carefully preconfigured and the desktop environment has a consistent visual appearance. Window Maker Live integrates selected components from other desktop environments such as XFCE4, MATE, LXQT, with a particular focus on GNUstep. The main idea behind this project is to integrate the Window Maker window manager as default user interface on top of a standard Debian/Trixie base system. It also serves as an alternate installation medium for Debian/Trixie. The second main idea not directly visible on the surface level is the inclusion of many useful command line utilities and tools for system administration. This effectively turns wmlive into a UNIX administrator's workbench for rescue and repair operations.
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    Downloads: 120 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS is a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution.

    A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    i3ass

    i3ass

    A collection of shell scripts to ease the use of i3wm

    Commands to assist and extend the use of i3wm. If you are using Arch linux, you can install the i3ass package from AUR.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    nowm

    nowm

    Managing window without a window manager. (59 slocs)

    Managing windows without a window manager. A dead simple tool to managing windows from the tty, written in Shell script.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    The FVWM configuration framework.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    Provide secure and stable OS, based on highly modified Linux Kernel, own package system, like "BSD Ports". Compatible with x86, Power PC. Easy to use of any level users. Complete Documentantion in many languages. 99% compatible with Windows.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Live Security/Forensics Linux Distribution, built from scratch and packed full of tools useful for vulnerability analysis, penetration tests, and forensic analysis.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    LXP is a desktop enviroment identical to Windows XP. LXP is a collection of different pieces of GNU software (icewm, xfe, idesk, etc) modified in order to look and feel identical to Windows XP. LXP has its own icewm themes and utility pack.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Global Translation and Localisation Team
    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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    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    An efficient configurable icon distribution.
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    wmsvmgen

    a menu generator to ease access to storage volumes

    wmsvmgen is a menu generator to ease access to storage volumes under Fluxbox, OpenBox, Window Maker window managers. For each of the target window managers, a menu is generated each time a (non-filtered) storage volume is inserted, removed, mounted, unmounted. For each available storage volume, there is a dedicated sub-menu with the following options: mount, unmount, open, open terminal here, informations
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    AwesomeWM-spin

    My customized linux live spin using 'Awesome' the Window Manager (WM)

    My customized linux live spin using 'Awesome' the Window Manager (WM) If you are not familiar with the AwesomeWM you might have troubles using this LiveOS, unless you are experienced with Linux in general. If you are looking for a Windows (Microsoft TM) or iOS (Apple TM) alternative, this Linux spin is NOT for you! As the linux base system i'm using Fedora, which i found to work best for the hardware i have. This project is in no way related with Fedora. The install icon is to be found in '$HOME/notepad' This is highly customized to my very personal liking. * As less GUI as possible * Console for everything * No bling bling but my scripts * LUA hardcoded applications menu Introducing my stuff: * Text User Interface: https://github.com/sri-arjuna/tui * Sutra: Random sutras from the Vedics (german) * Several small scripts Based on: * Fedora: http://www.fedoraproject.org * AwesomeWM: http://awesome.naquadah.org/download/ * RPMFusion: http://rpmfusion.org
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    FBC jest programem ktory umozliwia zmiane calego fluxboxa. Wlacznie z aplikacjami dodatkowymi takimi jak: conky, gdeskcal, Idesk. Poszukuje testerow. During versions 0.x only in polish language. IM WYZSZY BUILD TYM NOWSZA WERSJA!
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    FVWM is a multiple large virtual desktop window manager for X Window System. FVWM is intended to have a small memory footprint and a rich feature set, be extremely customizable and extendable, be both classic and modern.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    The Free-POSIX Common Desktop Project exists to create an open standard for free Desktop implementations.
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    Change the wallpaper according to the weather. Information about the weather at the selected location is fetched from Google. NOTE: New project with new version is here: https://github.com/onli/izulu
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    The Pawn will make it possibly for you to tell the computer exactly what you would like it to do. Fiction. No its reality now. The highly customizable slackware will be the base for Pawn.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Ozganizator is a Desktop organizer with some similarities with devilspie or the way Afterstep works but wich will work on quite any window manager.
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    Rofi Applets

    Rofi Applets

    Various useful applets developed with Rofi and shell-scripts

    Bundle of easy-to-configure useful Rofi Applets Developed by Umutcan Sevdi. This project requires Rofi. It's a very powerful pop-up/switcher that allows anyone to create powerful menus. You can download it from the package manager of your choice. All applets read color values from applets/global.rasi. Editing color hexcodes will update all existing applets. Create a directory at ROFI_APPLETS_PATH. Then open two files. config.rasi and launch.sh. Instead of defining your own color values, import all of them from global.rasi for consistency. Develop rest like any other rofi applet. Write your launch script to the launch.sh. Applet CLI will automatically recognize your applet on the next run.
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    Sakura is a Knowledge Navigator and User Interface for UNIX, which implements HyperMedia and its own windowing and packing system, both in the main program and in an extensive API for Tcl and other languages.
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    A collection of scripts that build a live CD with the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) platform. This CD can be booted from any computer.No software needed to be installed.
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