Lumina Desktop Environment Alternatives

Lumina Desktop Environment is described as 'Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Lumina Desktop Environment for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best Lumina Desktop Environment alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lumina Desktop Environment are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and COSMIC.

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Lumina Desktop Environment alternatives are mainly Window Managers but may also be Desktop Environments or Wayland Compositors.  Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Lumina Desktop Environment.
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Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.

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Lumina Desktop Environment alternatives page was last updated May 11, 2024
  1. Pinnacle icon
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    Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.

    57 Pinnacle alternatives
    Pinnacle screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Pinnacle Features

    1.  Compositor
    2.  Rust
    3.  Wayland Support
    Pinnacle iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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    A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.

    60 miracle-wm alternatives
    miracle-wm screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux

    miracle-wm Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Tiling Window Manager
    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

    miracle-wm VS Lumina Desktop Environment

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    An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).

    16 Waybox alternatives
    Waybox screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Openbox
    • Wayland

    Waybox Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  4. Polonium icon
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    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    70 Polonium alternatives
    Polonium screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland

    Polonium Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Wayland Support
    3.  Tiling Window Manager
    4.  Tiling
    5.  KDE
    Polonium iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

    Polonium VS Lumina Desktop Environment

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  5. Japokwm icon
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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀

    60 Japokwm alternatives
    Japokwm screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Tiling
    Japokwm iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

    73 dwl alternatives
    dwl screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    dwl Features

    1.  Compositor
    2.  Tiling
    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

    dwl VS Lumina Desktop Environment

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  7. Gnome Mutter icon
     1 like

    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    64 Gnome Mutter alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland

    Gnome Mutter Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    Gnome Mutter iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  8. Ratpoison icon
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    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...

    64 Ratpoison alternatives
    Ratpoison screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Tiling
    5.  X server
    6.  Tiling Window Manager
    Ratpoison iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  9. Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) icon
     3 likes

    KDE 3.5 fork. A computer desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems with a primary goal of retaining the function and form of traditional desktop computers.

    24 Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) alternatives
    Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Support for Multiple Monitors
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

    Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) VS Lumina Desktop Environment

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  10. CDE (Common Desktop Environment) icon
     9 likes

    The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time.

    26 CDE (Common Desktop Environment) alternatives
    CDE (Common Desktop Environment) screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    CDE (Common Desktop Environment) iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

    CDE (Common Desktop Environment) VS Lumina Desktop Environment

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  11. GNUstep icon
     4 likes

    GNUstep's core framework provides open source version of the Cocoa's (formerly known as OpenStep from NeXT) APIs and tools for as many platforms as possible.

    25 GNUstep alternatives
    GNUstep screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    GNUstep Features

    1.  Unix-like
    2.  Free API
    GNUstep iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

    GNUstep VS Lumina Desktop Environment

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  12. UKUI icon
     2 likes

    UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions. It is developed using GTK and Qt.

    24 UKUI alternatives
    UKUI screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu Kylin

    UKUI Features

    1.  Windows-like
    UKUI iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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