Platforms
- Linux
- Linux Mobile
- GNOME
- Wayland
United States
Unity Desktop Environment Alternatives
Unity Desktop Environment has been discontinued. Similar apps include KDE Plasma, which is free and open source. Other options are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and LXQt. There's no shortage of Desktop Environments like Unity Desktop Environment, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows and Mac.
Alternatives list
Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux
Platforms
- Linux
M
47 MaxLauncher alternativesMaxLauncher is a simple tabbed launcher that was designed to reduce the amount of time to find and run a program. It is capable of creating multiple data files, each of which can have a maximum of 10 tabs. Each tab and button is assigned a key(eg. F1-F10, 0-9, A-Z, etc.
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
Lomiri is the open source mobile and desktop environment that adapts to you computing needs. Supported on all kinds devices.
Platforms
- Linux
- Linux Mobile
- Ubuntu Touch
Germany
EU
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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.
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- PC-BSD
27 UKUI alternativesUKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions. It is developed using GTK and Qt.
Platforms
- Linux
China
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Gnome Panel is a component that is part of GnomeFlashback and provides panels and default applets for the desktop. A panel is a horizontal or vertical bar that can be added to each side of the screen. By default there is one panel on the top of the screen and one on the bottom...
Platforms
- Linux
- GNOME
- United States
Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list.
Platforms
- Linux
Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.
Platforms
- Linux
- Germany
- EU
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.
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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DockBarX is a lightweight taskbar / panel replacement for Linux which works as a stand-alone dock (called DockX), as an an Avant Window Navigator applet, as a Xfce4 panel applet1, as a matepanel applet2 or as a legacy gnome2 panel applet.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Since
- Since 2010
Platforms
- Linux
Estonia- EU
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43 Circle Dock alternativesThe idea behind Circle Dock is that the dock should appear where your mouse is instead of you having to move your mouse to the dock like with other programs. This is accomplished by making the dock a circular or spiral shape so that it can be placed anywhere, even near the edge...
Platforms
- Windows
