Bluetile Alternatives and Similar Software

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GNOME

Open Source by The GNOME Project |
Linux

The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that...

OS & Utilities desktop-environment
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KDE

Open Source by The KDE Team |
Mac, Windows, Linux

KDE is an international technology team that creates Free Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDEs products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office...

OS & Utilities desktop-environment
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Compiz

Open Source by Compiz |
Linux

Compiz and Compiz Fusion are merging and are now known as Compiz. Compiz is a compositing window manager. It has a flexible plugin interface which allows developers to use it for many different tasks. ...

OS & Utilities window-manager, virtual-desktop, compositing
+3 more window-resizer, aerodock, power-resizer
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Xfce

Open Source |
Linux

Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being...

OS & Utilities lightweight, window-manager, desktop-environment
+1 more xfce
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LXDE

Open Source by LXDE Foundation |
Linux

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...

OS & Utilities desktop-environment, x11, netbook, xorg, lightwieght
+1 more lgpl
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Openbox

Open Source by Dana Jansens |
Linux

Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic appearance. Openbox uses the *box visual style,...

OS & Utilities gnome, window-manager, kde, box, fluxbox
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Unity

Open Source by Canonical Ltd. |
Linux

Unity is a shell interface for the GNOME desktop environment developed by Canonical Ltd for its Ubuntu operating system. It is designed to make more efficient use of space given the limited screen size of...

OS & Utilities ubuntu, desktop-environment, interface
+2 more shell-interface, desktop-shell
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Fluxbox

Open Source |
Linux

Fluxbox is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience....

OS & Utilities window-manager, fluxbox
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Enlightenment

Open Source |
Mac, Linux

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...

OS & Utilities lightweight, window-manager, desktop-environment
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Emerge Desktop

Open Source by Chris Sutcliffe |
Windows

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...

OS & Utilities desktop-environment, shell-replacement
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awesome

Open Source |
Linux

awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers...

OS & Utilities window-manager, x11
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Cairo Shell

Free by Cairo Development Team |
Windows

Cairo Shell is a replacement shell for the Microsoft Windows operating systems. Like other shell alternatives, it replaces the default Windows Shell. Cairo Shell will be free to download and use when it is...

OS & Utilities desktop-environment, shell-replacement
+2 more customizable, multiple-desktops
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AeroSnap

This application has been discontinued. More info: The site aerosnap.de is no longer available, but you can still download AeroSnap from SoftPedia.
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Xmonad

Open Source |
Mac, Linux

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating...

OS & Utilities window-manager, x11, tiling
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dwm

Open Source |
Linux

dwm is a 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...

OS & Utilities window-manager, window-management, x11, dynamic
+1 more x-window-system
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pekwm

Open Source |
Linux

pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including...

OS & Utilities window-manager, dektop-environment
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IceWM

Open Source |
Linux

IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System (freedesktop, XFree86). The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.

OS & Utilities window-manager, window-management, x11
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i3

Open Source |
Linux

i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii.

OS & Utilities window-manager, x11, tiling, xcb
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EDE

Open Source by http://sourceforge.net/users/karijes/ |
Linux

Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems

OS & Utilities window-manager, desktop-environment, x11
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spectrwm

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not...

OS & Utilities window-manager, lightweight, bsd, openbsd