Open Source Desktop Environment Software

Browse free open source Desktop Environment software and projects for Mac and Linux 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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    GnuCash

    GnuCash

    Personal and small-business finance manager

    GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles.
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    Downloads: 5,226 This Week
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    Digital Clock 4

    Digital Clock 4

    beautiful customizable clock with plugins

    Very customizable beautiful clock. There are 2 versions exist (they may co-exist): - Digital Clock 4 - discontinued, not recommended - Digital Clock 5 - current version, replacement for Digital Clock 4 Digital Clock 4 final version is 4.7.9 Digital Clock 5 current version is 5.1.8 Nothing special is required to start using this clock. Just launch it and enjoy! When it starts, apart from the clock itself, a small tray icon appears. This tray icon can be used to call the clock configuration dialog. Also this dialog can be called using clock context menu. Sources (v5) are hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/Kolcha/DigitalClock5 You can create your own skin! See this link for details: https://sourceforge.net/p/digitalclock4/wiki/How%20to%20create%20skin/ NOTE: do NOT download any .rar or .exe files marked as my software, these files are NOT made by me and I'm not responsible for their content
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    Downloads: 1,673 This Week
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    AterBot

    AterBot

    A Minecraft bot for keep your Aternos server alive 24/7

    Keep your Aternos server alive 24/7.
    Downloads: 196 This Week
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    WenQuanYi (Spring of Letters)

    Crowd-sourcing CJK font project

    This project aims to develop the most complete, standard compliant, high-quality Chinese (and CJKV) fonts and resources, including bitmap and outline fonts of various styles. We also develop web-based tools to facilitate online font-dev collaborations.
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    Downloads: 3,382 This Week
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    Komorebi Linux

    Komorebi Linux

    A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux

    Komorebi is an awesome animated wallpaper manager for all Linux platforms. It provides fully customizable image, video, and web page wallpapers that can be tweaked at any time.
    Downloads: 120 This Week
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    numpad emulator

    Virtual numeric keypad.

    Virtual numeric keypad for Windows.
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    Downloads: 372 This Week
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    gImageReader

    gImageReader

    A graphical frontend to tesseract-ocr

    gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract. Features include: - Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots - Process multiple images and documents in one go - Manual or automatic recognition area definition - Recognize to plain text or to hOCR documents - Recognized text displayed directly next to the image - Post-process the recognized text, including spellchecking - Generate PDF documents from hOCR documents **Note**: This page is only a mirror for the downloads. Development is happening on github at https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader, release binaries are also posted there.
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    Downloads: 155 This Week
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    Domination (Risk Board Game)

    Domination (Risk Board Game)

    Domination is a game that is a bit like the board game Risk

    Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.5 or higher, iOS and Android.
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    Downloads: 179 This Week
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    Nextcloud Desktop Client

    Nextcloud Desktop Client

    Desktop sync client for Nextcloud

    Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with your computer. Use the desktop clients to keep your files synchronized between your Nextcloud server and your desktop. Select one or more directories on your local machine and always have access to your latest files wherever you are. Looking for integration apps like browser add-ins for Passwords, a feedreader, and more? Check our app store for integrations! You can already find Nextcloud Desktop client packages included in openSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch Linux, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu. Packages for Alpine Linux over here. See the latest state and more packages in this post on our forums. Can’t find packages? Ask your distribution or contribute to creating them! Note that all of those packages are community-developed and maintained, Nextcloud currently only provides the Appimage. The apps allow you to access, sync and upload your data and feature instant upload for photos and videos.
    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    searchmonkey

    searchmonkey

    Powerful desktop search app for Windows, Linux and Mac

    Power searching on your desktop without the pain. Perform powerful desktop searches without having to index your system using regular expressions. Graphical equivalent to find/grep. Available for Windows (JAVA) and Linux (Gnome & KDE) and easy to translate into your locale.
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    Downloads: 64 This Week
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    Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager. This is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity.
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    Downloads: 35 This Week
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    Laravel Kit

    Laravel Kit

    A desktop Laravel admin panel app

    A simple and elegant desktop application for managing your Laravel applications. Kit is an admin panel desktop app for Laravel projects. You can execute artisan commands in a graphical user interface and also tinker with your project. When you open your project in Kit, Kit will retrieve all the available artisan commands. No configuration is needed. The left sidebar contains a list of all artisan commands in your project except the queue. Select command and all the detailed inputs will appear. fill in your arguments and options and you will see your output in the Terminal section. Go to Artisan. Click Serve from the top bar to serve. This will execute php artisan serve. Then click Stop to stop serving the application. Tinker brings an evolved way to tinker with your application. Go to Tinker and type your code on the left code editor powered by Monaco Editor (vscode) and click Tinker in the bottom of the screen or press Ctrl+T on your keyboard.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Dash to Dock

    Dash to Dock

    A dock for the Gnome Shell

    Dash to dock extension is an enhanced dash for GNOME Shell. It moves the default dash out of the overview and transforms it in a dock for an easier launching of applications and a faster switching between windows and workspaces without leaving the desktop view improving the workflow in your Linux system or wherever GNOME 3 is running. It supports autohide and intellihide modes as well as a fixed mode. Optional features are available in the extension settings. The extension is theme-friendly.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Hyprland dotfiles

    Hyprland dotfiles

    Modern, feature-rich and accessible desktop configuration

    Modern, feature-rich and accessible Hyprland dotfiles.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Numix icon theme

    Numix icon theme

    Base icon theme from the Numix project

    Numix is the icon theme from the Numix Project. It is heavily inspired by, and based upon parts of the Elementary, Humanity and Gnome icon themes. Numix is designed to be used along-side an application icon theme like Numix Circle or Numix Square. This readme provides information on installation and icon requests. Licensed under the GPL-3.0+
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Time_limit

    Time_limit

    A windowed/full-screen countdown timer.

    A windowed / full-screen countdown timer. Colour and font size changes are used as warnings. Progress-bar gives a glance at the time stream. Three different modes are available: - time left; - time passed; - ordinary clock. When the time is over several possibilities are available: - to show the defined message; - to continue count the time; - to launch another application; - to close the count-down timer. Useful for speech, lecture or presentation timing. Colour / font / time limits can be changed using settings window and hot-keys. To change current time use the mouse wheel. By clicking on progress-bar, the timer mode is toggled.
    Downloads: 40 This Week
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    LunarCalendar

    LunarCalendar

    Use Qt write lunar calendar.

    Use Qt write lunar calendar. The repository is only read mirror of github. Main repository: https://github.com/KangLin/LunarCalendar .
    Downloads: 70 This Week
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    Free Tengwar Font Project
    Fonts that cover the tengwar script invented by J. R. R. Tolkien and that do not map the tengwar on other Unicode characters, plus tools and documentation for using these fonts.
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    Downloads: 59 This Week
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    nheko

    nheko

    Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20

    Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20. The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app (Element, Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    obmenu-generator

    obmenu-generator

    A fast menu generator for the Openbox Window Manager

    obmenu-generator is a fast and flexible menu generator for the Openbox window manager. It can create static or dynamic menus with support for icons, making it easier to manage application menus in Openbox environments.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    BGINFO4X - BGINFO for X and for Windows!

    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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    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    BirdFont

    BirdFont

    Font editor

    BirdFont is a font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export fonts in TTF, EOT and SVG format. Binary releases are available from the website.
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    PortalView Live Desktop Wallpaper v1.63

    PortalView Live Desktop Wallpaper v1.63

    Watch the World on Your Linux Desktop!

    PortalView delivers real-time wallpaper from thousands of webcams and weather sites worldwide. Launch this simple Python program on the boot or with a click to watch the sun set over the Mediterranean or Old Faithful erupt in Yellowstone Park. Automatic updating allows you to monitor your local webcam or road conditions without keeping a resource-hungry browser open. Doppler and Satellite maps keep you informed of approaching weather. World Sunlight maps (Earthlights) include rectangular, hemispheric and moon phase views. Includes scores of international webcams and weather maps to start with, then customize with your favorites. Supports .jpg, .gif and .png image formats.
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    Downloads: 28 This Week
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    Tiling Shell

    Tiling Shell

    Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management

    Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management. Supports multiple monitors, Windows 11 Snap Assistant, Fancy Zones, customised tiling layouts and more. This is a Gnome Shell extension implementing modern windows tiling system by extending GNOME's default 2 columns to any layout you want! Can be installed on Gnome Shells from 40 to 46 on X11 and Wayland: the most recent GNOME Shell is supported, and older releases will include all the features and bug fixes.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    ndm

    ndm

    npm desktop manager

    Add, remove, and update global and local packages with ease. Edit projects in place, snapshots, and projects history comfort. Launch npm commands and scripts, doesn't matter if you're on breakfast. Useful package information and live npm registry status.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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