Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn’t sacrifice on its looks.
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Category: Desktop
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Screen Sharing
Apple Screen Sharing allows you to remotely access an Apple desktop system environment. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers
A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.
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wmii – dynamic window manager
wmii is a dynamic window manager. Highy customizable and usable with keyboard and mouse. It supports conventional, tabbed and tiled window management.
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dwm – dynamic window manager
dwm is a minimalistic window manager. It manages windows in tiling and floating modes. Either mode can be applied dynamically.
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Xmonad – dynamically tiling X11 window manager
Xmonad is a minimalist, tiling window manager for X, written in the functional programming language Haskell.
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Kupfer – smart, quick launcher
Kupfer is software designed to change, speed up and make everything about files and programs more fun on your computer.
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bashrun2 – start programs from interactive bash sessions
bashrun2 is an application launcher based on a modified bash session in a small terminal window, providing all the well known bash features like tab-completion and history.
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dmenu – fast and lightweight dynamic menu
dmenu is a fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X. It reads arbitrary text from stdin, and creates a menu with one item for each line.
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Gnome-Pie – slick application launcher for Linux
Gnome-Pie is a circular application launcher for Linux that’s meant to be fun, easy to use, fast, and visually attractive.
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rofi – window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
rofi is a window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement. Its main aim is to improve your workflow, allowing users to quickly switch between windows, start applications or log into a remote machine via ssh.
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Synapse – semantic launcher written in Vala
Synapse is a semantic graphical launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files.
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lxqt-runner – LXQt application launcher
lxqt-runner is a tool used to launch programs quickly by typing their names. A calculator function is implemented too.
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Launchy – application launcher tool
Launchy is a utility designed to help users forget about the application menu, the icons on the desktop, and even the file manager.
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fuzzel – application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors
Fuzzel is a Wayland-native application launcher, similar to rofi’s drun mode. It’s free and open source software.
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