Open Source Linux Window Managers

Bodhi is a minimalistic, enlightened, Linux desktop. Bodhi Linux is extremely lightweight and highly customizable. Bodhi is suitable for both Linux newcomers and experienced users. The Ubuntu LTS assures stability for years and the Bodhi Team is very open to all suggestions and requests from users and willing to help.

Archcraft is an arch-based rolling-release distribution aimed at users who cares more about minimalism and aesthetics of their desktop. It comes pre-configured with various lightweight applications which makes it super fast. It can run under 500Mb of memory. There's no desktop environment in (main) Archcraft, just two highly configured window managers - Openbox and Bspwm. The default username & password is 'liveuser' for live ISO. The installer can be found in the app launcher and in openbox menu under the Application > System category, namely 'Install Archcraft'. Archcraft uses two Installers, Calamares and ABIF

Mabox is a Manjaro based, desktop Linux distribution. The project ships with Openbox as the default desktop with pinch of customistations and home-brewed tools, like improved menu, side-panels and Mabox Control Center. Works great even on weaker computers.

Window Maker Live is an installable Linux Live ISO based on the current Bookworm branch of Debian. The system uses the Window Maker window manager as the default graphical user interface. Window Maker Live's components have been carefully preconfigured and the desktop environment has a consistent visual appearance. Window Maker Live integrates selected components from other desktop environments such as XFCE4, MATE, LXQT, with a particular focus on GNUstep. The main idea behind this project is to integrate the Window Maker window manager as default user interface on top of a standard Debian/Bookworm base system. It also serves as an alternate installation medium for Debian/Bookworm. The second main idea not directly visible on the surface level is the inclusion of many useful command line utilities and tools for system administration. This effectively turns wmlive into a UNIX administrator's workbench for rescue and repair operations.

Menu Maker is 100% Python heuristics-driven menu generator for a number of X Window Managers and desktop environments. It features large knowledge base of known programs, powerful and flexible search algorithms, persistence of menus across several WMs

Rofi started as a clone of the simple switcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on a super switcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in menu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. It's not an application that can support every possible use case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. Rofi has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from Rofi or calling Rofi) or plugins.

A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware.

Provides battery,temperature,ac,cpufreq (SpeedStep,Powernow!) control and monitoring. Proper suspend to disk/ram and standby by shell hooks that are easy to extend. APM and ACPI machines are supported equally. For laptops as well as for workstations.

SLAX based LiveCD showcasing Sun Microsystem's open source project "Project Looking Glass 3D" (LG3D). Presented in 2004 LG3D combines a stunning 3D UI with the benefits of Java (easily expandable and reusable code, platform independency, etc.).

Wmping is a simple usefull program that allows to check host status in your network environment. It can be used for monitoring servers in the network.

FlickOS is designed to be lightweight, fast and sustainable, with focus on efficient use of system resources. The project is based on Ubuntu 20.04 and LXLE, which provides a stable and well-supported foundation. Unnecessary packages and services are stripped away, leaving only the essential components needed to minimize resource usage. FlickOS have complete suite of applications like LibreOffice, Firefox, VLC and many essential software for daily use. Save the environment, recycle your old PCs and Flick it. Support If you are having trouble installing or have some suggestions, you can email me at dvbondoy@gmail.com. You may also join our Reddit community at r/flickos, I am always there to answer your questions. Create issues at https://github.com/dvbondoy/FlickOS/issues Download the ISO file, write it to flash-drive using Etcher and boot your computer to the USB.

Provide secure and stable OS, based on highly modified Linux Kernel, own package system, like "BSD Ports". Compatible with x86, Power PC. Easy to use of any level users. Complete Documentantion in many languages. 99% compatible with Windows.

Babya System is a free shell replacement that is Windows XP compatible and easy to use. It has many useful features-like Babya Discoverer, which has automatic popup ad blocking, and easy access to Windows Control Panel applets.

Live Security/Forensics Linux Distribution, built from scratch and packed full of tools useful for vulnerability analysis, penetration tests, and forensic analysis.

Open Source port of the X Window System. XFree86 home page is at http://www.xfree86.org. Bugs may be reported here or at http://bugs.xfree86.org. Information about accessing the XFree86 CVS repository can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/.

Trayfreq is a GTK+ application released under GPL that lets you select your CPU's governor or frequency from a tray icon and displays information for your battery. Trayfreq is designed to be desktop-environment-independent.

An application launcher running a modified bash session in a small terminal window, providing all the well known bash features like tab-completion and history. Additional features include terminal rules, regexp based command line rewriting, and more.

wormwood is a GNU/Linux based operating system designed for mid-grade machines. It is built from a minimal Ubuntu install and uses the XFCE desktop environment. It is a very unique distribution and improves with every release...

PCFluxboxOS is a remaster project of PCLinuxOS using the Fluxbox window manager. The aim is to build on the solid foundations of PCLinuxOS to create a series of memory-light operating systems with excellent hardware detection and configuration.

Easy to configure and use application laucher DockApp (menu button, start menu) for WMaker. wm6x6 supplies 6 start buttons in 6 menus with tooltips and can use XPM, GIF, TIFF, PNG, ... files as icon-pixmaps.

Mount.app is a Window Maker compatible dock app which makes it convenient to manage all of your mountable devices.

The Pawn will make it possibly for you to tell the computer exactly what you would like it to do. Fiction. No its reality now. The highly customizable slackware will be the base for Pawn.

Clipboard manager written in c++ with QT

Sakura is a Knowledge Navigator and User Interface for UNIX, which implements HyperMedia and its own windowing and packing system, both in the main program and in an extensive API for Tcl and other languages.

WMgXMon is a generic monitor applet for WindowMaker and other WMs. It can display CPU, I/O, memory, load, swap usage or result of any other programs (like WMScript). What and how (as gauge, histogram, percentage, number) to display can be configured.