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GTKExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUIs for the X Window System using GTK+. It is written in C and includes the following widgets: GtkSheet, GtkPlot, GtkPlotCanvas, GtkItemEntry, GtkComboBox, GtkColorCombo, GtkBorderCombo, GtkFontCombo, GtkDirTree, GtkIconList, GtkFileList,... Platforms: *nix

JD4X project is a basic GUI Windowing Environment developed to support the Java Programming Language based on top of the X Window system. It was developed with the intention of providing a Java environment that allows Java programmers to build and extend a windowing system purely in Java.... Platforms: *nix

Minidock is a 4 buttons application launcher for the Window Maker dock. The config file allow to put custom commands and icons. The default package provides two versions of the config file (common apps and Openoffice).. Platforms: *nix

BPager is a lightweight pager designed to be used with NetWM-compliant window managers like OpenBox. Unlike many other pagers out there, OBPager has very few dependencies, requiring only Xlib and glibc++ (no Gnome or KDE necessary). Usage: OBPager is pretty straightforward in terms of... Platforms: *nix

Agar project produces a portable and window system independent graphics toolkit for SDL and OpenGL. In addition to a fully functional GUI toolkit, a set of higher-level graphics related libraries are also included in Agar. For a complete listing, see the Agar libraries page. Agar is free... Platforms: *nix

SlackE17 is a project of building and distributing the new Enlightenment DR17 (E17) window manager for the Linux Slackware distribution. E17 is under heavy development but is stable enough for everyday use even if there was no official release yet. Platforms: *nix

Oroborus basically is a really minimalistic window manager, which is about 75kb small on a PowerPC machine and about 63kb on an x86 machine. "Minimalistic" means that the Oroborus window manager doesnt provide some things other window managers provide. So you will need some external tools also... Platforms: *nix

WMRack is a combination sound mixer and CD player, designed for use with the Window Maker Dock, but usable with most or all X11 window managers. WMRack can easily be “swallowed” by the FVWM buttonbar, the Afterstep wharf or the Gnome or KDE panels. WMrack makes effective use of its small... Platforms: *nix

QuickTabPrefToggle is an extension which adds a toggle button for single window mode so you can toggle between two settings. Adds a toggle button for single window mode so you can toggle between two settings. Also gives easy access to the new hidden Firefox Tab Browsing prefs.. Platforms: *nix

asMon is a system monitor for Linux systems running afterstep, but should work on other window managers, too. I got fed up with most other wharf system monitors that didnt show the correct memory usage, and took up too much CPU. asmon also shows the exact amount of memory used and load avg by the... Platforms: *nix

evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. Minimalist here doesnt mean its too bare to be usable - it just means it omits a lot of the stuff that make other window managers unusable.. Platforms: *nix

aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features, but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching between... Platforms: *nix

wmkeys project is a Window Maker and AfterStep dock app which allows you to quickly switch between different X keymaps, for example QWERTY and Dvorak. The source includes QWERTY and Dvorak keymappings. Other keymappings can be made with JWZs xkeycaps. Some code was taken from existing dock... Platforms: *nix

Kahakai is a fork of the Waimea window manager, with the intent to create a language agnostic scriptable window manager, while maintaining the original features of Waimea, and extending upon them. Kahakai is pronounced with the ca in car, the ha in hard, and ki from kite. By "language... Platforms: *nix

virtualDesktopTools is a set of tools for handling X Window virtual desktops. It makes it possible to switch the virtual desktop to the one indexed by a command line argument, and displays the number of desktops and index of the currently selected one. It should work with all EWMH-compliant... Platforms: *nix

Window Manager Icons purpose of the wm-icons project is to provide a themeable icon distribution for window managers.. Platforms: *nix

No New Window forces Firefox to never open links in a new window automatically. If you want to open a link in a new window, you can still do that via the context menu, but if a website author specifies that a link should open in a new window, that is ignored. Please note that this extension... Platforms: *nix

Actual Window Minimizer was created to bring more convenience in window management, offering new ways for optimizing your workspace that standard Windows functions don't provide. It lets you minimize any window to the system tray, thus leaving the taskbar empty and your workspace more organized.... Platforms: Windows

This perl plugin shows a mini window in a corner of the screen when a buddy logs in in any account like MSN Messenger. It shows also what protocol it uses. To install this plugin, just copy the files "popup.pl" and "popupwin" to ~/.gaim/plugins/ restart gaim and activate the plugin in the... Platforms: *nix

WindowLab project is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It has a click-to-focus but not raise-on-focus policy, a window resizing mechanism that allows one or many edges of a window to be changed in one action, and an innovative menubar that shares the same part of the screen as... Platforms: *nix