This project aims to keep the KDE3.5 computing style alive, as well as polish off any rough edges that were present as of KDE 3.5.10. Along the way, new useful features will be added to keep the environment …
he majority of us use our computers for tasks that could be performed in a browser. Your email, shopping, web surfing, instant messaging etc etc. AppShell allows you to use the browser of your choice to …
The KDE on Windows Initiative is an ongoing project to port the KDE applications to MS Windows. Currently supported versions of Windows are XP, Vista and 7.
A simple dynamic window manager for X, with features nicked from ratpoison and dwm: Musca operates as a tiling window manager by default. It uses manual tiling, which means the user determines how the …
This is the distribution page for ZMatrix. ZMatrix is an animated desktop background which displays streaming characters in a style similar to what was used in the movie 'The Matrix'.
"After some licensing problems preventing inclusion in XScreenSaver (which is BSD/X licensed), my original intent, I've been asked to release my work in a standalone package. The package here currently …
Mac OS X Transformation Pack. Macbuntu is an open-source program, designed to transform Linux’s appearance and layout into a Mac OS X environment. Although Macbuntu is dedicated to Ubuntu Linux OS, it …
Founded in 2010, the Unity project started by Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical has gone on to deliver a consistent user experience for desktop and netbook users alike. Putting great design at the heart …
Rainlendar is a customizable calendar application which stays out of your way but keeps all your important events and tasks always visible on your desktop.
Simple and lightweight tiling and floating window manager for X11. Started as a dwm fork with easier configuration, echinus became full-featured reparenting window manager with EWMH support. easily configurable …
EDE is small desktop environment built to be responsive, light in resource usage and to have familiar look and feel. It runs on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Minix, Zaurus and even on XBox.
Global Menu is the globally-shared menu bar of all applications launched in your desktop session. This project introduces document-oriented concepts into GNOME, and improves GNOME's respect for Fitts's …
SplashyCreator is a graphical tool for creating and manaing splashy bootsplash themes. This application was just a test and it’s development is currently discontinued (but not dead), after some users …
QLBar is a Toolbar gadget for X11 that contains icons and allows to launch associated applications quickly. Usually it appears as a one pixel high line placed at edge of the screen, because not to cover …
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 …
LightDM is a cross-desktop display manager that aims is to be the standard display manager for the X.org X server. The motivation for this project is there have been many new display managers written since …
The Cream Desktop Environment is a project working on a new GTK+-based Desktop Environment providing users a working environment following theKISS principle. Your desktop shell should stay out of your …
Viper Window Manager (VWM) is a lightweight, extensible window manager for the console. Originally, VWM was designed to be the reference implementation of libviper. From conception, VWM was designed to …
GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 user experience. It provides core interface functions like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities …
Retrobooster is a high-tension survival shooter with a classic thrust ship, agressive enemies, speed flying challenges, puzzles, creepy worlds, and fiery death lurking pretty much everywhere.
Murrine is an Italian word meaning colored glass patterns made by Venetian glass makers. Murrine Engine is a Gtk2 engine that will make your desktop look like a beautiful Murrina(which is the italian singular …
The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.org community. The X.Org Foundation is the educational …
i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems, our code is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) under the BSD license. i3 …
JWM is a window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. The following libraries can also be used if available: libXext for the shape extension libXext for …
Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and …
Xnest is a client and a server. Xnest is a client of the real server which manages windows and graphics requests on its behalf. Xnest is a server to its own clients. Xnest manages windows and graphics …
Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience.
The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2.
The underlying technology is forked from Gnome Shell …
Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are …
Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including GNOME and KDE. Compiz …
