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Desktop Environment Software for Desktop Operating Systems
Browse free open source Desktop Environment software and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Desktop Environment software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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KeePass
A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it’s nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish. See our features page for details. -
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GnuWin
Provides native Win32 open source ports and utilities
GnuWin provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, relying only on libraries provided with any modern 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 -
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Matroska is an open standard audio/video container format. Visit our homepage at http://www.matroska.org
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Wine
Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes. -
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Fluxbox is a X11 windowmanager build for speed and flexibility.
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GCompris : I got IT
Educational Software for children aged 2 to 10.
GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational. -
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A LINUX designed for Hannah Montana fans
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GTK+ for Windows (MinGW)
Gtk 2&3 for Windows (MinGW)
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GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK+. It provides additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK+, and GtkWidget API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable.
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TkDND is an extension that adds native drag & drop capabilities to the Tk toolkit. It can be used with any Tk version equal or greater to 8.3.3 and currently only the UNIX (X-Windows), Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7) and OS X (Leopard) operating systems. Please note that sources have been moved to: https://github.com/petasis/tkdnd
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icewm is a window manager for the X Window System. The features of icewm are speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.
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WiFi Password Recovery
A free utility to recover the passwords of wireless networks
WiFi Password Recovery is a free utility to recover the passwords of the WiFi networks saved on your computer. For example if you forgot the password of a WiFi network (which you have entered in the past), you can easily recover it thanks to this tool. WiFi Password Recovery provides a very simple user interface which shows also other informations (SSID, Interface, Security type, Encryption algorithm) for each wireless network. The program is able to recover the passwords of wireless networks which use the following security types: WEP, WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2, WPA2-PSK.* GitHub Repository: https://github.com/EvolSoft/WiFi-Password-Recovery *Note: On Windows XP the passwords of WiFi networks using WPA security will be shown as 64 HEX digits. You can use these characters as password to connect to the wireless network anyway. -
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GTK 3 runtime for windows 32 & 64
The files required to run GTK+ applications on Windows
This project is designed to create a nsis installer with the latest gtk3 for windows 32 and 64 bits based on MinGW64 binaries found in OpenSUSE build service. -
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BGINFO4X - BGINFO for X and for Windows!
Shows desktop information on your screen
BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Microsoft Windows created by Sysinternals. BGINFO4X is designed for pretty print useful information (CPU model, Hostname, IP address, OS version, Office version, and much more ...) on your desktop background or wallpaper. See the screenshots to see BGINFO4X in action. BGINFO4X is Multi Platform (Windows, MacOSX, Linux, BSD). BGINFO4X is Highly Customizable. BGINFO4X is Open Source. BGINFO4X comes with lots of Features. See the main Features below on this page. Find more information in http://sourceforge.net/p/bginfo4x/wiki/BGINFO4X/ -
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Krusader is a twin-panel (commander style) filemanager for KDE. It supports mime-type, complete drag n' drop, multiple filesystems, archives, bookmarks etc. Krusader's GUI is intuitive, and allows an easy access to all of your file-management needs.
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Ruler
For measuring desktop elements in pixels
For measuring your screen in pixels (Requires .NET Framework 4.0 or higher) -
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A cross-platform Bible application for the Linux & Windows communities. Xiphos is no longer developed at SF; the SVN tree has been locked, the mailing lists are disabled, and we have moved to GitHub. Please see https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos. Releases up to 4.0.4 are present here. From 4.0.5 onward, see GitHub.
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Star Trek 24/7: LCARS (Starfleet) GUI, full-screen alarm clock & calendar, games, utilities, sims, maps, graphical LCARS library, file manager, viewers, players, animation. Requires a HighColor/TrueColor DOS-based laptop w/ std. graphics & sound cards.
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xmlroff is a fast, multilingual, multi-platform XSL formatter that transforms XSL-FO (or any XML with a stylesheet) into PDF or PostScript. New development is at http://xmlroff.org. This SF project is inactive.
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FOX is an Extensible C++ Class Library for Multi-Platform GUI development. Platforms supported include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, and UNIX/X11 workstations (IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, AIX, FreeBSD, and others).
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Lobo is an extensible all-Java web browser and RIA platform. It supports HTML 4, Javascript (AJAX) and CSS 2 plus direct JavaFX and Java (Swing/AWT) rendering. Cobra is the web browser's renderer API; also a Javascript-aware HTML parser.
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Twin - Textmode WINdow environment
Twin is a "retro" program for embedded or remote systems
Twin is a text-mode window environment. It supports mouse and multiple windows, has a built-in terminal emulator and window manager, and can serve as display for client applications. Its retro look-and-feel comes with very modern features: it is best described as a VNC-like server, that can use a variety of displays - all with mouse support: from a plain text terminal, to a Linux console, to a full kde, gnome or X11 desktop. Source code hosted at https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
