KDE
KDE is an international technology team that creates Free Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDEs products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office...
View ArticleGNOME
The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications...
View Articlespectrwm
spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does...
View ArticleEDE
Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems
View ArticleXfce
Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while...
View ArticleLXDE
The "Lightweight http://alternativeto.net/software/x11/ Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. Maintained by an international community of...
View ArticleCDE (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 open-source software for...
View Articleherbstluftwm
herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
View ArticleKWin
KWin is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor. It is an integral part, and the default window manager of the Plasma Workspaces, but it can...
View ArticleLXQt
LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of http://alternativeto.net/software/lxde/, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt...
View ArticleOpenbox
Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic appearance. Openbox uses the *box visual...
View ArticleFluxbox
Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop...
View ArticleEnlightenment
Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned...
View Articledwm
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, optimising the environment for the application in use...
View Articleawesome
awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. It is primarily targeted at power users,...
View Articlei3
i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii.
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