Desktop environments and window managers
The graphical shell of an operating system: desktop, panels, window management and display servers.
Includes: Desktop environments, window managers, display servers, launchers and docks.
For example: GNOME, KDE Plasma, i3, Xfce.
99 listed products
| Product | What it says it does |
|---|---|
| Hyprland | Hyprland provides the latest Wayland features, dynamic tiling, all the eyecandy, powerful plugins and much more, while still being… |
| KDE Plasma 4 | Plasma Desktop offers all the tools required for a modern desktop computing experience so you can be productive right from the start. |
| ObjectDock | ObjectDock is an animated dock for Windows that enables you to quickly access and launch your favorite applications, files and shortcuts. |
| X-Win32 | only commercially developed and supported X11 Windows Emulator to connect Windows users to Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and other Unix systems |
| awesome | awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. |
| Cygwin/X | Cygwin/X is a port of the X Window System to the Cygwin API layer for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. |
| Deepin Desktop Environment | This desktop environment has been developed by the Deepin team and is designed to be lightweight, beautiful and stable. |
| DesktopX | DesktopX is a desktop utility designed to enable users to build their own desktops, widgets, and gadgets. |
| Dock | The Dock on the Mac desktop is a convenient place to access apps and features that you’re likely to use every day |
| Fences | Automatically organize your desktop apps, files, and folders on Windows 10 and 11 |
| GNOME Panel | Gnome Panel is a component that is part of GnomeFlashback and provides panels and default applets for the desktop. |
| Openbox | Openbox is a minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. |
| Quicksilver | Quicksilver is a fast macOS productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly. |
| SliderDock | SliderDock is an application launcher that will allow you to easily drag and drop icons |
| Unity | Unity is a desktop platform, based on technologies such as Nux , GTK and Compiz . |
| Xpra | Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, MacOS and MSWindows. |
| Étoilé | create a user environment designed from the ground up around the things people do with computers |
| 9wm | 9wm is an X window manager which attempts to emulate the Plan 9 window |
| Appetizer | This is a free application launcher, or dock, for Windows. |
| Calmira | Calmira is a complete 16-bit shell that lets you manage files, launch |
| Common Lisp FullScreen Window Manager | CLFSWM is a 100% Common Lisp X11 window manager |
| Compiz Fusion | to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment |
| Evilwm | evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. |
| Fluxbox | Fluxbox is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. |
| FVWM | Fvwm is a virtual window manager for the X windows |
| GNOME | An independent computing platform for everyone |
| GNOME Do | GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items |
| IceWM | IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System. |
| Ion | Ion is a tiling tabbed X11 window manager |
| JWM | JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. |
| LaunchBar | An adaptive app launcher and document browser |
| Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager | This products is an window manager on X11R6. |
| Qtile | A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python |
| SLiM | SLiM ist ein Akronym für Simple Login Manager. |
| StumpWM | StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written |
| Trinity Desktop Environment | is a computer desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems |
| UKUI | you can use it to browse web pages, manage files, watch videos |
| X Window System | provides an open source implementation of the X Window System |
| X11.app | a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on macOS |
| XFree86 | provide a client/server interface between |
| Xming | Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows® . |
| Budgie | a luxurious Linux desktop environment |
| CTWM | CTWM is an X11 Window Manager |
| i3 | i3: improved tiling X11 window manager |
| KDE Plasma | Plasma is a Desktop |
| Lumina Desktop | Lightweight Desktop Environment |
| LXQt | The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment |
| Mir | Mir Display server library |
| RocketDock | Our classic app launcher for Windows. |
| wm2 | wm2 is a window manager for X. |
| xmonad | the tiling window manager that rocks |
| Xephyr | KDrive-based X server which targets a window on a host X Server as its framebuffer |
| Ambient | MUI-based desktop environment for MorphOS |
| Cinnamon | GTK 3-based desktop environment initially developed for Linux Mint |
| Common Desktop Environment | desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS operating systems |
| Compiz | compositing window manager for the X Window System |
| cwm | stacking window manager for the X Window System on OpenBSD |
| Elokab | Free and open source desktop environment for Linux |
| Enlightenment | window manager for Unix-like operating systems |
| Graphics Environment Manager | operating environment created by Digital Research, Inc. |
| iSeries QSHELL | optional command-line interpreter for the IBM |
| LXPanel | Desktop panel and application launcher menu software for LXDE |
| Open Shell | software that restores several Windows user interface (Shell) features |
| Project Looking Glass | project aiming to create a 3D desktop, conducted by Sun Microsystems |
| Unity Desktop Environment | Desktop environment for Ubuntu operating system |
| Visual User Environment | Hewlett-Packard's graphical interface for the X Window System |
| Window Manager From Scratch | tiling window manager software which is highly configurable |
| After Dark | computer screensaver software |
| Beryl | Linux Composite Manager |
| BumpTop | Desktop application |
| EDE | desktop environment |
| Emerge Desktop | software |
| FLWM | X window manager |
| GPE | palmtop environment |
| LiteStep | Windows shell replacement |
| LXDE | Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment |
| Metacity | GNOME 2 window manager |
| Metisse | windowing software |
| Musca | window manager for X Window System |
| Niri | scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor |
| OpenSolaris Desktop | Desktop environment |
| OpenWindows | computer desktop environment |
| PAWS | web shell for Wikimedia projects |
| ratpoison | simple mouse-free tiling window manager |
| RK Launcher | Windows User Interface application |
| ROX Desktop | desktop environment for X Window System |
| Sawfish | window manager for Linux and other Unix |
| Sugar | free desktop environment based on GTK+ |
| UDE | Desktop environment |
| Weston | Wayland server reference implementation |
| wmii | window manager |
| Xgl | display server |
| Yandex Launcher | Android launcher |
| Docky | Not observed |
| OPIE user interface | Not observed |
| RetroUI | Not observed |
| X/Qt Server | Not observed |
| XWindows Dock | Not observed |
| Yandex.Shell | Not observed |
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