Open Source Window Managers

SystemTrayMenu is an open source 'Desktop Toolbar' or 'Start Menu' alternative. It offers a clear, personalized menu which can be controlled via keyboard, mouse or touchscreen. Files, links and folders are organized in several levels as dropdown menus. Various options like appearance, hotkey, autostart and behavior can be adjusted. It is written in C# and using .NET 7. SystemTrayMenu is portable, so it does not need to be installed. After downloading the zip file, unzip the folder, then start SystemTrayMenu.exe. After starting the application the first time you have to choose the root directory. In this directory you should put shortcuts, files and folders (App, Game, Script, URL, Network), which you are often using and especially when you can not find them over the windows start menu search. You can also consider to put there all files from your desktop. If you have ideas, questions or a problem you can contact the developer Markus Hofknecht via GitHub or email.

MIGRATED: https://github.com/igr/dm2 DM2 provides several enhancements that helps in every day work. DM2 can minimize any window to "floating icon" (unique feature!). DM2 can minimize window to tray, make it "on-top" and provide favorites files/folders in common Open/Save dialogs.

FVWM - Crystal aims to create an easy to use, eye-candy but also powerful desktop environment for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems. Its goals include seeking for better ways of using window manager and providing it with eyecandy interface. It try to exercise FVWM quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix desktops like direct controls for several media players and its ability to bring in full screen virtualy any application. It can flow through the full screened applications and the desktop in a manner similar to the application stack of the Amiga OS, which provides an innovative way to go around the desktop space, without compromising traditional X multiple desktop pages. The core code was written by harnir Maciej Delmanowski with contributions from many other folks. The current developments are led by Dominique Michel.

The FVWM configuration framework.

Xfce is an easy-to-use and easy-to-configure desktop environment using the popular GTK+ toolkit.

A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware.

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.

SyncWall is quite a basic wallpaper changer with a special feature, it is the ability to synchronize wallpaper change between several workstations with a basic (and unsecured) client/server protocol. Each workstation must share the same pool of files, there is no FTP or Internet download. Because SyncWall is written with Qt, SyncWall runs on Windows and Linux (MacOSX isn't tested yet).

Provides battery,temperature,ac,cpufreq (SpeedStep,Powernow!) control and monitoring. Proper suspend to disk/ram and standby by shell hooks that are easy to extend. APM and ACPI machines are supported equally. For laptops as well as for workstations.

A program that allows the user to easily change the icon of a folder, disk partition, file type, or group of folders/partitions at once to any one you specify (ICO, PNG, JPG, DLL, etc.), these icons can be selected from your collection, or from those supplied with the program, as well as find the ones you need using the built-in function from the Internet with the ability to save them in your collection. For ease of use of the program, step-by-step instructions are built in, which show sequentially what actions need to be performed at the moment. Additionally, the program has the function of setting a note for a folder.

capsWatcher is a software created in Python using the PyQt framework to indicate the state of toggle keys on the screen using image-based overlays, allowing for easy customization and theme creation by the community. The project was developed based on the need for an open-source, elegant, and customizable tool that allows users to create their own overlay style.

3DControls is a framework entirely in 3D (OpenGL) where every control has been rethought to use the advantage of a third dimension to bring a better interactivity. This GUI engine is an OO C++ library, with events, basic controls.

Allows better windows management

JDistro is a project to build a java distribution. The main sub-projects are an application launcher, a swing desktop with document management and an access to remote applications.

MyDoggy is an IntelliJ Idea like docking framework for managing secondary windows within the main window. MyDoggy allows to move, resize or detach those secondary windows. Also, MyDoggy provides support for content management of the main window.

SeVeraGe is a project aimed at leveraging SVG's capabilities in the real world! This is the home of iSVG, multi-language SVG DOM implementations and a few converters.

A solution for Home automation, with HTTP access to manage Tini Board, X10 - I2C - LCD components. You can add your own manager and exchange his services with other. All manager are plug on a kernel (Servlet Java).

Wavy is a program based on Johnny Lee's fingertracking project that makes you control your mouse cursor with your fingers (with the help of reflective tape) and supports every thing you can do with a regular mouse.

It's so experimental! it could EEXPLODDDEEEE!!!!!! seriously, i'm still fricking around with suse, don't expect anything too special

This project is not maintened since 2006 as sdl for pascal is not updated. maybe one day , if time found , i will adapt it . or if someone want to do it ? ;) x11 desktop in SDL and fpc designed for childrens (and others) .works with pentium 200 minimalist configuration.. ..Easy to use , very fast and beautiful with animations (i hope so) :) use festival and mbrola to speak

Web OS to host web based applications. An API allows to create online applications. Uses web 2.0 techniques. Integrate existing web apps. Featuring: GUI, icons, tasks, users. Office apps: oulook, CRM, browser, browser, post-it, mail.

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

OpenImageManager, the new Opensource Image Manager written in C#. Includes Thumbnails feature, HTML Album Generator, localized to 10 languages and more...

The best way to store and quickly open your shortcuts How many times during the work or the management of your files you are forced to repeat the same steps over and over again? Open Windows Explorer and navigate between folders and again open Windows Explorer and navigate between folders and again open Windows Explorer and navigate between folders and again.... or open your browser and type the web address of your favorite sites several times per day? Shortcuts manager with all this is no longer necessary Simply store once the path or the bookmark and a comfortable management panel you can open them with a simple click