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Browse free open source Window Managers and projects for Linux and ChromeOS below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Window Managers by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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This is a set of improved artwiz fonts. They are compatible with the latest fontconfig/Xft-2.0. Thus artwiz fonts work with gtk2/kde3 applications. Multiple encodings are available.
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icewm is a window manager for the X Window System. The features of icewm are speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.
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SDL Framework (SDLFW) SDLFW is a cross-platform framework from the powerful SDL library to create your own 2D games with the Lua programming language. It's easy-to-use, free, open-source, and works on Windows and Linux.
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SVG Icons project has a goal to provide Open-Source reference implementation of SVG icon themes for leading Linux and UNIX Desktop Environments, in particular (but not limited to) KDE and GNOME Desktops environments, FXCE and LXDE.
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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.
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Terra-Terra is a virtual operating system, giving the full power of an OS to your internet server. Application developers can build webbased application for Terra-Terra, using its user interface, security system, RTL etc as with any OS.
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wmspaceclock (or spaceclock for short) is an antialiased analog clock for the Window Maker dock to show the current local time. It is fairly configurable via rc file, has a configurable background and the hand shapes are configurable as well.
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The concept behind the 'Applications via XML' (AVX) architecture is to allow applications to become more flexible in the way they go about performing their duties. The essential idea is to avoid 'hard-coding' instructions into an applications' source
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Babya System is a free shell replacement that is Windows XP compatible and easy to use. It has many useful features-like Babya Discoverer, which has automatic popup ad blocking, and easy access to Windows Control Panel applets.
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Glogo is a software project to develop a crossplatform, standards compliant 3D desktop GUI and multiuser networking environment. If you're familliar with William Gibson's Neuromancer or Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, then you get it. Coders needed!
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GobSmack is a GUI framework for the web. It contains a session manager daemon, a CGI frontend written in C, and an AJAX-based JavaScript library to deal with server communication.
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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.
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The only -complete- XUL/embedded scripting solution for Java. JFCML supports not only AWT and Swing; but any class accessible to Java's ClassLoader. Also, most major scripting languages, including JavaScript, BeanShell, Jython, Jacl (Tcl), JRuby, more.
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The JScrollDesktopPane swing component provides a virtual desktop replete with dynamic scroll bars, dynamic menus, and dynamic button shortcuts.
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"Java Textual Desktop" project stands for the classical TEXT screen with java implementation inspired with Curcus which used for decades in the history of UNIX (linux).
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JavaScript PHP Window Manager aims to provide a simple web based window manager, using JPSpan and wz_dragdrop.
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JSWM is a JavaScript window manager built on scriptaculous. It allows you to generate new windows, or wrap existing content. Windows can be moved, resized, collapsed, closed, maximised, tiled, cascaded and also support multiple tabs.
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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.
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PLWM is a Python package, containing classes suitable for implementing a window manager. PLWM is also a window manager, using the PLWM package.
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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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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.