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  • LXDE

  • The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. Maintained by an international community of developers, it comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE uses less CPU and less RAM than other environments. It is especially designed for cloud computers with low hardware specifications, such as, netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers. LXDE can be installed with distributions like Ubuntu or Debian. It provides a fast desktop experience; connecting easily with applications in the cloud. LXDE supports a wealth of programs that can be installed locally with Linux systems. The source code of LXDE is licensed partly under the terms of the the General Public License and partly under the LGPL. »

    tags: desktop-environments lgpl lightweight netbook x-server
  • VirtuaWin

  • VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7/Win10). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

    tags: Portable desktop-manager virtual-desktop workspace
  • 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.

    tags: desktop-environments lgpl lightweight lxde netbook
  • Enlightenment

  • Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager. It covers uses from small mobile devices like phones all the way to powerful multi-core desktops (which are the primary development environment).

    tags: desktop-environments lightweight window-manager
  • Elokab

  • Elokab Desktop Environment is an open-source independent desktop environment for Linux which uses QT libraries like KDE .

    tags: desktop-enhancement desktop-environments desktop-customization qt-based arabic-support
  • Emerge Desktop

  • Emerge Desktop is a replacement Windows "shell" (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows 2000 and above. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, it provides a system tray (the area that collects the icons collected at the lower right corner in Explorer), called emergeTray. It will also provide access to the users programs (normally accessed with the Windows "start" button) via a right-click on the desktop, via emergeCore.

    tags: Discontinued desktop-environments shell-replacement
  • bug.n

  • bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.What it can do

    tags: Portable rss feed-reader atom window-manager
  • LiteStep

  • LiteStep is a replacement desktop interface for Windows.

    tags: modular-system shell-replacement desktop-interface
  • Bluetile

  • 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 paradigm easily accessible to users coming from traditional window managers by drawing on known conventions and providing both mouse and keyboard access for all features.

    tags: gnome window-manager tile window-snapping aero-snap
  • elokab file manager

  • elokab-fm is full file manager for elokab desktop envirenement is Qt-basedelokab-fm fast and lightweight file managerAvailable languages: French, English, Arabic.

    tags: file-management
  • NERD tree

  • The NERD tree allows you to explore your filesystem and to open files and directories in Vim. It presents the filesystem to you in the form of a tree which you manipulate with the keyboard and/or mouse. It also allows you to perform simple filesystem operations.

    tags: tree-structure vim-plugin