Open Source Desktop Environment Software
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Browse free open source Desktop Environment software and projects for Linux and ChromeOS 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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GTK+2 for Windows Runtime Environment
The files required to run GTK+ applications on Windows
This is the GTK+2 Runtime Environment Installer for Windows. It includes all of the files required to run GTK+2 applications on Windows. Some support tools are also available. This project is no longer maintained. Please use its successor: https://github.com/tschoonj/GTK-for-Windows-Runtime-Environment-Installer">
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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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LinuxLibertine.org
We provide pleasant OS font-families for documents and screen.
We develop 2 artful digital font-families called “Linux Libertine” (serif font) and “Biolinum” (sans-serif). Both elegant good-readable Unicode fonts for daily & professional use (see OpenType & WOFF). Break the monotony of (c) W*ndows Fonts! -
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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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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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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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Tadween is a powerful multilingual application allowing users to write Arabic in applications that support Unicode but don't fully support Arabic.
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PDF Split and Merge
Split and merge PDF files on any platform
Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface. -
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CamDesk
The Desktop Webcam Widget
CamDesk is a free, open source, desktop webcam widget, that was created as home surveillance application. Although others have used it for demonstrations even with CamStudio, and QuickTime Player for screen casting. -
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Free Unicode TrueType fonts for Baltic, Central European, South European and other languages, including Azeri, Maori, Welsh and Esperanto.
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Turbo Download Manager
A portable modern multi-threading download manager for all platforms
A modern multi thread download manager for Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Android devices. For bug reports visit: https://github.com/inbasic/turbo-download-manager/issues For FAQs visit: http://add0n.com/turbo-download-manager.html Turbo Download Manager is an stand-alone application without any dependencies. It should run out of the box. Just set the download location while adding the first job request. If you have a browser and would like to integrate this download, use these browser extensions: Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/turbo-download-manager/ Opera: https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/turbo-download-manager/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/turbo-download-manager/kemfccojgjoilhfmcblgimbggikekjip -
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Bashish is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font, transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh.
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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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Regain is a Java search engine based on Jakarta Lucene. It provides indexing and searching files for plenty of formats (HTML,XML,doc(x),xls(x),ppt(x),oo,PDF,RTF,mp3,mp4,Java). A TagLibrary eases integrating search results in your JSP based web page.
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MingCute Icon
Carefully Designed Icon Library
MingCute is a set of simple and exquisite open-source icon library. Whether you're a designer or a developer, it's perfect for use in web and mobile. Every icon is designed within a 24 x 24 grid, giving an outline and filled styles, 2px stroke. Support for SVG,PNG and webfont. Head on to the website of MingCute. Click the icons, you can adjust the color size, and then download the icons in SVG or PNG format. -
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This is a set of improved artwiz fonts. They are compatible with the latest fontconfig/Xft-2.0. Thus artwiz fonts work with gtk2/kde3 applications. Multiple encodings are available.
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Mona Sans
Mona Sans, a variable font from GitHub
Mona Sans is a modern, open-source typeface created to be highly legible and visually distinctive across a wide range of digital and typographic contexts. Designed with attention to clarity, proportions, and flexibility, it strikes a balance between geometric structure and humanistic warmth, making it suitable for user interfaces, web typography, branding, and editorial layouts. The family includes multiple weights and styles that support expressive typographic hierarchy while maintaining consistent character shapes that improve readability at both small and large sizes. Being released through the GitHub repository encourages collaboration, versioning, and community feedback, enabling designers and developers to contribute improvements or request feature expansions. It also includes documentation, specimen files, and usage examples to help users understand how to integrate the font into projects effectively. -
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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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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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JNode is a Java New Operating system Design Effort. JNode is a simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use on modern devices. Any java application runs on it, fast and safe. See our homepage for additional information.
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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.