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🐧 A list of awesome projects and resources that make Linux even more awesome. 🐧 Credits to: aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-linux

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X Windows Managers

  • 9wm

    X window manager which attempts to emulate the Plan 9 window manager 8-1/2 as far as possible within the constraints imposed by X.

  • awesome

    Highly configurable window manager for X. Fast and extensible.

  • Blackbox

    Fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, without annoying library dependencies. Built with C++.

  • bspwm

    Tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.

  • Compiz

    OpenGL compositing window manager. It has a plug-in system to be changed at runtime.

  • dwm

    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.

Applications

  • AppImageKitGUI-based Applications

    Using AppImageKit you can package applications in the

  • AtomGUI-based Applications

    Hackable text editor for the 21st century.

  • AuraGUI-based Applications

    Secure, multilingual package manager.

  • BuilderGUI-based Applications

    Builder is an IDE for GNOME that is focused on bringing the power of the GNOME platform to more developers than ever before.

  • CaprineGUI-based Applications

    Facebook's Messenger client with some added privacy features.

  • cmusConsole-based Applications

    Small, fast and powerful console music player.

X Desktop Environments

  • Cinnamon

    Cinnamon strives to provide a traditional user experience. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3.

  • EDE

    EDE is a small desktop environment built to be responsive, light in resource usage and to have a familiar look and feel.

  • LXQt

    LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects: A lightweight, modular, blazing-fast and user-friendly desktop environment.

  • MATE

    Mate provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.

  • Pantheon

    Pantheon is the default desktop environment originally created for the elementary OS distribution. It is written from scratch using Vala and the GTK3 toolkit. With regards to usability and appearance, the desktop has some similarities with GNOME Shell and Mac OS X.

  • Unity

    Unity is a shell for GNOME designed by Canonical for Ubuntu.

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