Projects

Compiz

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. (Short version: Wobbly windows and stuff)

Openbox

Openbox is a standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager. Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was ... [More] written first to comply with standards and to work properly. Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface. Openbox is fully functional as a stand-alone working environment, or can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window manager in the GNOME or KDE desktop environments. [Less]

IceWM

IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps.

Gimmie

A fresh, new UI for Linux

Portland Project

Portland is a joint OSDL/Freedesktop.org initiative to provide independent software developers (ISDs) with stable APIs into Desktop Linux and other Free Desktop platforms. It is hoped that the project will unify KDE and GNOME developers and make it easier for software developers to target both ... [More] environments. The first result of the Portland initiative is Xdg-utils, a free set of open source tools that allows applications to easily integrate with the desktop configuration your customer has chosen to work with. [Less]

xsettingsd

xsettingsd is a daemon that implements the XSETTINGS specification. It is intended to be small, fast, and minimally dependent on other libraries. It can serve as an alternative to gnome-settings-daemon for users who are not using the GNOME desktop environment but who still run GTK+ applications ... [More] and want to configure things such as themes, font antialiasing/hinting, and UI sound effects. The source code is available at GitHub and can be fetched by running: git clone git://github.com/derat/xsettingsd.git For more information about using xsettingsd, see the Installation page. [Less]

FastPorts

Unofficial pre-compiled MacPorts (DarwinPorts) and differ users packages for simple install and use. Now only for Intel-based Mac's. For downloads visit a project's site : http://fports.sourceforge.net