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Unity Desktop Environment Alternatives for Linux
There are many alternatives to Unity Desktop Environment for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Unity Desktop Environment and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Unity Desktop Environment are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and MATE.
Alternatives list
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.
UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions. It is developed using GTK and Qt.
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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.
25 GnomePanel alternativesGnome 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...
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.
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.
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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PyPanel is a lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C for X11 window managers. It can be easily customized to match any desktop theme or taste. PyPanel works with EWMH compliant WMs (Openbox, PekWM, FVWM, etc.) and is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
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