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- 2wm
- 2wm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. It is the little brother of dwm.
- ABYSS
- Automates most tasks on video and audio streaming.
Besides being a free/libre software, its goals are:
- Move past command-line based streaming, by automating things.
- Provide audio/video feedback for the volunteer at the station to monitor the streaming.
- Behave slightly differently according to user actions or loss of the feed.
- GTK+ graphical user interface.
- Ease to switch between testing mode -- for testing the audio and video chain without broadcasting -- to stream mode, which broadcasts the feeds.
- In the event of main camera source failure, ABYSS changes the pipeline to fetch the video source from a backup USB webcam and then starts broadcasting again.
- Each stream is actually recorded locally in three forms to allow easy post-processing: audio-only, raw-video, and audio-video.
- Aewm
- Aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features, but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching between windows, etc.
- AfterStep
- AfterStep is a Window Manager for X which started by emulating the NeXTSTEP look and feel, but which has been significantly altered according to the requests of various users. Many adepts will tell you that NeXTSTEP is not only the most visually pleasant interface, but also one of the most functional and intuitive out there. AfterStep aims to incorporate the advantages of the NeXTSTEP interface, and add additional useful features.
- Arrangeit
- Cross-platform desktop utility that helps you placing your desktop's open windows. It is a utility mostly based on the mouse movements, with some keyboard shortcuts as helpers.
- Awesome
- awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast and extensible, primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on their graphical environment.
- B4step
- B4Step is a Window Manager running under X11R6 (Solaris and GNU/Linux), featuring a new innovating way to manage window banners.
- BBrun
- BBrun is a run window for Blackbox with dropdown history list. It can be run in either slit or withdrawn mode so that it can be bound to a keystroke from bbkeys.
- Blackbox
- Blackbox is yet another addition to the list of window managers for X. It is written in C++, sharing no common code with any other window manager (even though the graphics implementation is similar to that of WindowMaker). It features small code size, a fast interface with simple menus, multiple workspaces, decorated windows, built-in graphics code to render solids, gradients, and bevels on the fly, and more.
- Blwm
- Window manager in Portugese.
- Bspwm
- bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It only responds to X events, and the messages it receives on a dedicated socket. bspc is a program that writes messages on bspwm's socket. bspwm doesn't handle any keyboard or pointer inputs: a third party program (e.g. sxhkd) is needed in order to translate keyboard and pointer events to bspc invocations.
- Common Desktop Environment
- 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 free software for the first time.
- Cwm
- 'cwm' (calmwm) is a window manager originally inspired by evilwm. It has several novel features, including the ability to search for windows and a very simple and attractive aesthetic.
- DWM
- dwm is a fast and simple window manager for X11. It manages windows in tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. Windows can be tagged with one or multiple tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows that are accordingly tagged. dwm is the little brother of wmii.
- Dextra
- A dynamic window manager with extra repository, themes, styles, and dotfiles.
- Dmenu
- dynamic menu is a generic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages huge amounts (up to 10.000 and more) of user defined menu items efficiently.
- Dungeon-mode
- Dungeon-mode is a game engine and REPL for creating and playing multi-user dungeons written primarily in emacs lisp. While playing a game created with dungeon-mode doesn’t necessarily require Emacs authoring game environments (e.g. worlds) does, as do assigning special powers, resolving Ghod calls, Sage encounters, and Ubic -if enabled- or any other or custom events with a dm-intractable property set to a non-nil value. Dungeon Masters may specify delegation rosters to support cooperative oversight and enable teams to direct the play experience.
- Dwl
- dwl is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of philosophy, and secondarily in terms of functionality. dwl is easy to understand, minimal, extendable, and tied to as few external dependencies as possible.
Features
- Any features provided by dwm/Xlib: simple window borders, tags, keybindings, client rules, mouse move/resize (excluding built-in status bar)
- Configurable multi-monitor layout support, including position and rotation
- Configurable HiDPI/multi-DPI support
- Provide information to external status bars via stdout/stdin
- Urgency hints via xdg-activate protocol
- Various Wayland protocols
- XWayland support as provided by wlroots
- Zero flickering - Wayland users naturally expect that "every frame is perfect"
- Dwm
- dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. In tiled layout windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The master area contains the window which currently needs most attention, whereas the stacking area contains all other windows. In monocle layout all windows are maximised to the screen size. In floating layout windows can be resized and moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating, regardless of the layout applied. Please notice that dwm is currently customized through editing its source code, so you probably want to build your own dwm packages. This package is compiled with the default configuration and should just give you an idea about what dwm brings to your desktop.
- E-xmms
- E-xmms is a Enlightenment applet that interfaces with XMMS. It will compare the previous and current states to determine if window painting should be done.
- E2wm
- E2WM is a window manager for Emacs. It enables to customize the place of pop-up window, how the windows are split, how the buffers are located in the windows, keybinds to manipulate windows and buffers, etc. It also has plugins, namely dedicated windows for specific purpose, something close to Eclipse views.
- Efsane II
- Efsane is an X window manager programmed in C++. It can run any X application (KDE and GNOME also included). It can be installed under any GNU/Linux distribution.
- Enlightenment
- Enlightenment is a themeable, fast, flexible, and powerful window manager that runs on everything from small mobile devices to powerful multi-core desktops. The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) comprise a suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces.
- Exwm
- EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB. It features:
- Fully keyboard-driven operation
- Hybrid layout modes (tiling & stacking)
- Workspace support
- ICCCM/EWMH compliance
- Basic RandR support (optional)
M-x package-install RET exwm RET
- Fancy9menu
- 'fancy9menu' is a small shell script that lets you easily implement a system of menus using 9menu and xwit. It ensures that only one copy of any distinct 9menu instance is running at a time. If no entry is running, it starts one.
- Felidae
- Felidae is a collection of modules for FVWM written in Perl. Currently it contains:
- FvwmWallpaper
- FvwmStorage
- FvwmOsd
- FvwmXMMS
- Fluxbox
- Fluxbox is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager with pwm-like tabs.
- Flwm
- flwm is a window manager based on wm2. Primary features are:
- Nifty sideways titlebars.
- No icons. You deiconize by picking off a pop-up menu. This means no space is wasted by icons.
- The same pop-up menu controls multiple desktops and lets you launch programs.
- Occupies as little screen space as possible. The border and titles are as thin as they could possibly be. And maximized windows waste zero pixels vertically.
- Independent maximize buttons for width & height.
- Understands Motif, KDE, and Gnome window manager hints, and works with SGI programs that assume 4DWM.
- Really small and fast code.
- FramebufferUI
- FBUI is a small, fast in-kernel GUI windowing system for the Linux kernel whose core is currently about 32kB large. It lets you put windows in each framebuffer-based virtual console, read keyboard input, track a mouse pointer, and respond to typical GUI events. Each process may have more than one window, and accesses its windows completely independently of all other processes. It supports windows on every virtual console, and there is no concept of parent and child windows. Each virtual console can have its own optional window manager process
- Fresco
- Fresco (formerly known as Berlin) is a windowing system derived from a powerful structured graphics +toolkit originally based on InterViews. Fresco extends earlier incarnations +to the status of a full windowing system, in command of the video hardware +(via GGI, SDL, DirectFB or GLUT) and processing user input directly rather +than peering with a host windowing system. Additionally, Fresco's extensions include a rich drawing interface with +multiple backends, an upgrade to modern CORBA standards, a new Unicode-capable +text system, dynamic module loading, and many communication abstractions for +connecting other processes to the server. It is developed entirely by +volunteers on the internet, using free software. This project was formerly known as Berlin.
- Frugal Windowing Environment
- This is a candidate for deletion: Links broken. No archive.org entry. No response from maintainer. Poppy-one (talk) 11:58, 5 August 2018 (EDT) Frugal Windowing Environment is a user-space client-server windowing environment that uses the framebuffer. It is the next logical development of FBUI.
- Fvwm
- FVWM is an extremely powerful ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system. Originally (long time ago) derived from twm. FVWM is intended to have a small memory footprint and a rich feature set, be extremely customizable and extendable. It is highly extensible through its module interface. This 2.6 version includes new features like full support of the EWMH (Extended Window Manager Hints) specification, internationalization, improved window decoration code (no flickering anymore), bi-directional asian text support, FreeType font support (antialiasing), image rendering, Perl based module library, support for PNG images, side titles and much more.
- GNOME Shell Extension TaskBar
- TaskBar is a GNOME Shell extension. It displays icons of running applications on the top panel or alternatively on a new bottom panel. Activate, minimize or close tasks with a simple click. TaskBar is a dock-like windows list on the top/bottom bar. Development stopped Last stable version (Apr 5, 2018 / available here): 57.0 Last updates (Oct 17, 2018): https://github.com/zpydr/gnome-shell-extension-taskbar/tree/39b36aba2611c42cefbbf9beab60d46ce75ec82c
- Gargoyle
- Gargoyle is an IF player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats. Most interactive fiction is distributed as portable game files. These portable game files come in many formats. In the past, you used to have to download a separate player (interpreter) for each format of IF you wanted to play. Gargoyle is based on the standard interpreters for the formats it supports. Gargoyle is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
- Garlic-player
- The garlic player is a SMIL compatible media player software for digital signage. It displays different digital signage content, such as images, videos, and interactive applications, on a screen. The garlic-player can be used and administrated locally or remote via Internet.
- Gnome
- GNOME is an easy and elegant desktop environment. It is designed to put you in control and bring freedom to everybody. GNOME is developed by the GNOME community, a diverse, international group of contributors that is supported by an independent, non-profit foundation. The GNOME project has a tradition of high-quality interface design which has been strongly influenced by usability principles and practice. GNOME software is available in a large number of spoken languages, and the project aims to ensure that its software is usable for everyone, including people with disabilities.
- Guile-wm
- Guile-WM is a framework for creating an X window manager (or any other X application, really) and a set of useful modules designed for that purpose.
- Gworkspace
- GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace and file manager. It is a clone of NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage, and is available in English, French, German, Italian and Romanian. Besides its standard Contents Inspectors (App, Folder, Image, Sound, Pdf-Ps, Rtf, text, Plist, Strings and Inspector viewers), GWorkspace can dynamically load other modules which you can build separately. Simply put them in a place where GWorkspace looks for them, (ie ~/GNUstep/Library/GWorkspace). In the same way you can add other viewers besides the standard Browser, Icon and Small Icons viewers.
- I3
- i3 is a tiling X11 window manager that dynamically manages tiled, stacked, and tabbed window layouts. It primarily targets advanced users. Windows are managed manually and organized inside containers, which can be split vertically or horizontally, and optionally resized. i3 uses a plain-text configuration file, and can be extended and controlled from many programming languages.
- I3-gaps
- 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.
- IceMe
- IceMe is a graphical menu and shortcut editor for the IceWM window manager, written in Python and GTK+. You can edit menu entries with drag and drop as well as cut and paste. Both the default menu and the local menu in the users home directory can be edited.
- IceWM Control Center
- The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.
- IceWm Control Panel
- IceWM Control Panel is a full-featured, GTK-based control panel for IceWM. Current tools/modules include:
- IceWMCP KeyEdit- Shortcut keys manager
- IceWMCP Wallpaper- Wallpaper and desktop manager
- IceWMCP Window Options- Window options manager
- IceWMCP Mouse- Sets mouse speed
- IceWMCP Keyboard- Sets keyboard repeat-rate
- IceWMCP Cursors- Configures IceWM mouse cursors
- IcePref2- Preferences manager.
- IcePref2 Theme Designer- Theme creation utility
- IceMe- Menu editor
- IceWMCP Icon Browser- Utility for viewing and using icons
- Ice Sound Manager- Sound events manager
- PhrozenClock- Gtk+ Date/Time application
- PySpool- LPRng printer spool manager
- GtkPCCard- Gtk+ PC CARD manager
- PyInstallShield- Installation method for .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 distributions
- Bug-Reporter- Bug-reporting tool
- Software Update Checker- Checks for software updates
- tkPCCard- PC CARD manager
- Icewm
- IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is fully GNOME compliant, and partially KDE compliant. Use of the mouse is optional. NB. a fork of the original IceWM is available at https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm
- Ion
- Ion addresses the problem of navigating between windows by dividing the screen into frames that take up the whole screen and never overlap. Big displays have so much space that this should be convenient and smaller displays couldn't show more than one window at a time anyway. The frame layout is dynamic and different on each workspace. Given the tree instead of coordinate-based frame layout, moving between the frames can be conveniently done from the keyboard. As in PWM, the frames may have multiple clients attached. The author notes that programs with more than one window per document may become practically unusable under Ion. Terminal programs should work better than before, however. Other features include a general purpose line editor (called minibuffer in many text editors) and tab-completion in certain queries. Ion also has support for extensions (that are not wanted in the core source) as loadable modules.
- Karmen
- Karmen is an easy-to-use window manager for X. It is designed to just work. There is no configuration file, and no library dependencies other than Xlib. The input focus model is click-to-focus. It aims at ICCCM and EWMH compliance.
- Larswm
- 'Larswm' is a modified version of the 9wm window manager that adds virtual desktops, automatic window tiling, and many other features designed to make it a highly efficient user environment. One of the design goals is that you should never have to manually shuffle windows around on the screen. Another is that it should use as little CPU time, RAM, and screen space for itself as possible.
- Lifeograph
- Lifeograph is an off-line and private journal and note taking application.
- Lumina Desktop
- Lumina Desktop, also called Lumina, is a desktop environment developed as a graphical interface for the TrueOS operating system. Lumina is designed to use as few dependencies as possible. It also has a plugin system so the interface can be arranged any way the user wants.
- Lwm
- 'lwm' (Lightweight Window Manager) is a window manager for X that tries to keep out of your face. There are no icons, no button bars, no icon docks, no root menus, no nothing (other programs can provide those things). There is also no configurability, in the interest of remaining small.
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