Projects

KDE

claimed by KDE

KDE is a development platform, a set of applications and a graphical desktop; it's all of these things. It is created by a community of people dedicated to create a free, open-source and user-friendly computing experience. KDE offers all the necessary means to easily build all kinds of ... [More] applications upon our libraries, as well as offers many applications out of the box. From a media player, to a text editor, to a workspace, a web browser, a file manager, and so on. KDE has been around since 1996, with the code change history dating back at least to 1997. KDE is one of the biggest free software C++ projects around and one of the two leaders of UNIX desktops. Not only this, but KDE also runs on Windows and OS X. [Less]

awesome

awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, light and extensible. It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and want to have fine-grained control on its graphical environment.

Beryl

Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly ... [More] flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do. With Beryl the rather esoteric concept of the computer desktop is brought down to a more human level, allowing for a more native and intuitive understanding of your workspace. [Less]

dwm

dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

wmiirc-lua

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.

lg3d

Project Looking Glass is based on Java technology and explores bringing a richer user experience to the desktop and applications via 3D windowing and visualization capabilities. It is an open development project based on and evolved from Sun Microsystems' advanced technology project.

node-x11

X Window client library, written in JavaScript + node.js