Actual Window Manager

Many users prefer Gnome Window Manager but cant go without Amarok. Gnome Play Video in Totem allows Gnome Users to view video or audio externally in Totem. This is very useful for Video Podcasts..

jQ-Windows is a jQuery based window manager component which can be used in web applications. The user interface easily integrates with the jQuery-UI library. There is no public release yet, although there is a development release available for download.

The Open Mind Speech project is part of the Open Mind Initiative and aims to develop free (GPL) speech recognition tools and applications, as well as collect speech data from "e-citizens" using the Internet. The main target will still be Linux (and other UNIX flavors). The software will be...


Platforms: *nix

miwm is the "Microscopic Window Manager." A major goal is to keep it as clean as possible, while making daily use easy. This means getting a small, versatile set of core window management functions. Judge our success for yourself! miwm is written in C++, and incorporating lessons from LWM, AWM,...


Platforms: Mac

Clearbox is a customizable theme for the Metacity Window Manager. A small GTK application allow configure the differents theme aspects, preview the theme and save it in the user themes folder. The options that can be configured in the Clearbox theme are the following ones: - Topbar style...


Platforms: *nix

miwm is the "Microscopic Window Manager." A major goal is to keep it as clean as possible, while making daily use easy. This means getting a small, versatile set of core window management functions. Judge our success for yourself! miwm is written in C++, and incorporating lessons from LWM, AWM,...


Platforms: *nix

Wumwum is a window manager manager. It manages window managers so that they place your windows automatically the way a tile-based window manager (ion or awesome) would do it. This way you get the nice graphics of modern window managers and the efficiency of keyboard driven tiling-based managers....


Platforms: *nix

Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping. Bluetile tries to make the tiling...


Platforms: *nix

FluxBat is an ACPI based battery monitor for the fluxbox window manager. It includes two parts: a daemon process that runs the update script and the update script itself. The whole software contains only about 100 lines of code and is easy to use by including only one line in the menu...


Platforms: *nix

And again it's NetBSD time. The long awaited new version of the LiveCD has finally arrived. It is freshly built from the NetBSD 5.1 sources, which is the first feature update of the NetBSD 5.0 branch. It includes many bugfixes and contains the latest packages from pkgsrc. As always, it uses Xorg...


Platforms: *nix

Flexible, easy to use and (really) fast dinamic/static menu generator for the Openbox Window Manager. The 'dinamic menu generation' feature allows you to set it up once and to have an always up-to-date menu content. Features: - Generates a full menu using the information present in *.desktop...


Platforms: *nix

Welcome to Virtual Dimension: a free, fast, and feature-full virtual desktop manager for Windows platform. The main goal of this open-source project is indeed to enhance the Microsoft "Window Manager" up to the level of usual Unix Window Manager, by providing virtual desktops, as well as some...


Platforms: Windows

Twin is a text-mode window environment. It supports mouse and multiple windows, has a built-in terminal emulator and window manager, and can serve as display for client applications. Its retro look-and-feel comes with very modern features: it is best described as a VNC-like server, that can use a...


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Solaris, Linux

Cairo Composite Manager is a versatile and extensible composite manager which use cairo for rendering. Rendering can be done in 2D or 3D, using Xrender and Glitz backends. Plugins can be used to add some cool effects to your desktop. The goal of cairo-compmgr is to provide an easy way to...


Platforms: *nix

ltpanel is a lightweight window list for the X Window System, similar to GNOMEs window list applet. It has been tested on IceWM and should work with any GNOME-compliant window manager. It is based on Peter Zeleznys fspanel.. Get ltpanel at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and free downloads from...


Platforms: *nix

xbindkeys is a program that allows you to launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X Window. xbindkeys links commands to keys or mouse buttons, using a configuration file. Its independant of the window manager and can capture all keyboard keys (ex: Power, Wake...). usage:...


Platforms: *nix

ScitePM is a lightweight, Gtk-based project manager for use with the SciTE editor. It allows the user to organize a set of files as a project, like most IDEs, and then open them within SciTE. ScitePM uses the SciTE "Director" interface to communicate with SciTE. Note also that SciTE must be...


Platforms: *nix

dvtm brings the concept of tiling window management, popularized by X11-window managers like dwm to the console. As a console window manager it tries to make it easy to work with multiple console based programs like vim, mutt, cmus or irssi.


Platforms: *nix

WMII is the next generation of wmi. WMII 2 project is a dynamic window manager for X11, which is highly customizable and usable with keyboard and mouse. It supports conventional, tabbed and tiled window management with low memory usage and a vi-alike user interaction. Due to a complete rewrite...


Platforms: *nix

The Xchar module offers a set of programs for keyboard (mouseless) management (raising, focussing, moving, resizing) of X windows. It includes a taskbar. It is useful if you use so many windows that they can't all be seen at once. Xchar is not a 'window manager' like fvwm or metacity. In fact it...


Platforms: *nix