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 Jun 22, 2024
  1. EDE icon
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    Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems

    22 EDE alternatives
    EDE screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris

    EDE Features

    1.  X server
    EDE iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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    Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

    64 Blackbox WM alternatives
    Blackbox WM screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  3. Phoenix icon
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    Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

    63 Phoenix alternatives
    Phoenix screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    Phoenix iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  4. Elokab icon
     7 likes

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

    26 Elokab alternatives
    Elokab Desktop

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Elokab Features

    1.  QT Based
    Elokab iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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    Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux

    25 Moksha alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

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    A Wayland compositor.

    53 Jay alternatives
    Jay screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland

    Jay Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Rust
    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  7. MagmaWM icon
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    A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.

    53 MagmaWM alternatives
    MagmaWM screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    MagmaWM Features

    1.  Rust
    2.  Wayland Support
    MagmaWM iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  8. Cage: the Wayland kiosk icon
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    Cage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.

    59 Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Cage: the Wayland kiosk Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Compositor
    Cage: the Wayland kiosk iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

    Cage: the Wayland kiosk VS Lumina Desktop Environment

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    Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:

    56 Mahogany alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Mahogany Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

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    velox window manager.

    59 velox alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Wayland Support
    Discontinued

    The latest update is from February 2022.

    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  11. Emerald Theme Manager icon
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    The Emerald Theme Manager allows you to install, edit and switch between Emerald themes. In order for it to work, select Emerald as your window decorator. You will also need to enable the Window Decorations plugin (via CCSM).

    51 Emerald Theme Manager alternatives
    Emerald Theme Manager screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No Tracking
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Support for scripting
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Transparency
    8.  Make window transparent
    Emerald Theme Manager iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

    Emerald Theme Manager VS Lumina Desktop Environment

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    Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.

    61 wio alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD

    wio Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

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