Projects tagged ‘linux’ and ‘x’

X.Org provides an open source implementation of the network-transparent X Window System, as well as working on the standard itself. The development work is being done as part of the freedesktop.org community, sponsored by the X.Org Foundation.

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 that integrate into the rest of the desktop.

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop, a set of applications and a development platform. It is created by a community of people dedicated to create a free and user-friendly computing experience. KDE offers all necessary means to ... [More] easily build all kinds of applications upon. KDE has been around since 1996, with code change history dating back at least to 1997. KDE is one of the biggest free software C++ project around and one of the two leaders of unix desktops. [Less]

Qt is a cross-platform (Windows, Unix, MacOs X) graphical toolkit. Qt features a rich API to write GUI software, but also for other aspect of application development : network classes, xml, internationalisation, database, ...

The KDE libraries, basis of KDE and used by many open source projects. They are based on Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform toolkit, and run on Linux, BSDs, and other Unices, as well as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Licensed under GNU LGPL, they may be used by open source and proprietary applications.

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources.

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many ... [More] popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power." SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but these are not officially supported. SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to several other languages, including Ada, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria, Guile, Haskell, Java, Lisp, Lua, ML, Objective C, Pascal, P [Less]

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)

Fluxbox is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager with pwm-like tabs.

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.

Wmiirc-lua is a replacement of the wmiirc that comes with wmii-3.5 (and later) with a lua script. This removes the fork/exec overhead of the shell script that is used to control the wmii window manager. The long term goal of the project is to duplicate features from the wmii+ruby project.

A fresh, new UI for Linux

OpenCity is a city simulator game that is licensed under the GPL and coded in C++. It is currently in very early stage of development but very playable.

Subtle is a another tiling window manager with a very flexible and dynamical layout, client and view tagging, mouse and keyboard control as well as an extendable statusbar.

XSel is a command-line program for manipulating the contents of the X selection.

Backbone is a user environment, using the GNUstep libraries, using the design of the NeXTstep/OPENSTEP user environment as a springboard; the idea is to do better, not just different.

KTK is an efficient and easy-to-use C++ GUI library for Linux. KTK emulates its entire widgets set, and is completely themeable. KTK tries to perform tasks with minimal lines of code using a highly object-oriented design.

EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is small and very portable desktop environment designed to be very lightweight in memory and resource usage.