Open Source Desktop Environment Software

Browse free open source Desktop Environment software and projects 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

    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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    Downloads: 204,643 This Week
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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: 8,185 This Week
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    Folder Size for Windows adds a new column to the Windows Explorer details view that displays the sizes of files and folders. A service scans your hard disk in the background and caches the results. Designed for performance!
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    Downloads: 1,115 This Week
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    Wine

    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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    Downloads: 781 This Week
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    Classic Shell

    Classic Shell

    Start menu and Windows enhancement software

    Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others. Note: The software available here is not the latest version. Visit the new website www.classicshell.net to download the latest version and to access the new forums and documentation.
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    Downloads: 366 This Week
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    PNotes
    PNotes is light-weight, flexible, skinnable manager of virtual notes on your desktop. It supports multiple languages, individual note's settings, transparency and scheduling. Absolutely portable as well - no traces in registry. PNotes.NET edition requires .NET framework 4 Client Profile
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    Downloads: 213 This Week
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    Linkbar

    Linkbar

    Windows desktop toolbar

    Beta - https://sourceforge.net/projects/linkbar/files/Version%201.7.0%20beta/ Linkbar - ideological heir to desktop panels from Windows XP. This application that is useful for those users who are on the desktop requires more than one tray to place shortcuts for launching frequently used programs, files, etc. Note: Windows XP and prior not support. GitHub - https://github.com/ATGH15102AFMLD/Linkbar
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    Downloads: 186 This Week
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    Sucrose

    Sucrose

    Sucrose Wallpaper Engine

    Sucrose is a versatile wallpaper engine that brings life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive wallpapers.
    Downloads: 158 This Week
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    SystemTrayMenu

    SystemTrayMenu

    SystemTrayMenu - Browse and open your files easily

    SystemTrayMenu is an open source 'Desktop Toolbar' or 'Start Menu' alternative. It offers a clear, personalized menu which can be controlled via keyboard, mouse or touchscreen. Files, links and folders are organized in several levels as dropdown menus. Various options like appearance, hotkey, autostart and behavior can be adjusted. It is written in C# and using .NET 7. SystemTrayMenu is portable, so it does not need to be installed. After downloading the zip file, unzip the folder, then start SystemTrayMenu.exe. After starting the application the first time you have to choose the root directory. In this directory you should put shortcuts, files and folders (App, Game, Script, URL, Network), which you are often using and especially when you can not find them over the windows start menu search. You can also consider to put there all files from your desktop. If you have ideas, questions or a problem you can contact the developer Markus Hofknecht via GitHub or email.
    Downloads: 38 This Week
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    eProcurement Software

    Enterprises and companies seeking a solution to manage all their procurement operations and processes

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    Sodipodi is general vector illustrating application for Linux/Unix and Windows. It uses W3C SVG as native file and in-memory image format and can do many neat things.
    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    The Smart Common Input Method platform (SCIM), is an input method platform supporting more than thirty languages (CJK and many European languages) for POSIX-style operating systems including Linux and BSD.
    Downloads: 33 This Week
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    ASuite
    ASuite is an application launcher to manage an unlimited number of files, folders and webpage for quick access. It is designed to work with removable storage (uses relative paths) media like USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc.
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR or tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed) as well as plain image files.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS is a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution.

    A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware.
    Downloads: 17 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    HotShots

    HotShots

    a screenshot and annotation tool

    HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, ...).
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Flying-Bird-Wallpaper

    Flying-Bird-Wallpaper

    Flying Bird Wallpaper is a feature-rich desktop wallpaper application

    Flying Bird Wallpaper is a feature-rich desktop wallpaper application that supports multiple wallpaper types including images, videos, rhythm wallpapers, and solid colors, making your desktop unique and vibrant.
    Downloads: 17 This Week
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    Haiku is an open-source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing.
    Downloads: 9 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: 5 This Week
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    LinuxTLE

    LinuxTLE

    LinuxTLE (Revival)

    LinuxTLE(Linux Talay) is the legendary Thailand Linux Distribution lost technology from NECTEC. Now, reborn out of demise, LinuxTLE has finally build the 11.0 version code named "Cha-Am" revived the dead project by the mysterious successor. Shifted from GNOME2 into Mate Desktop which supported both Thai & English languages. LinuxTLE 11.0 currently based from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. There will be also Debian 9.0 based build soon. "Talay(ทะเล)" means "The Sea" pronounced in Thai languages. Refer: - https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linuxtle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxTLE - https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/ลีนุกซ์ทะเล Installation: - Recommend burn with DVD - Currently x64 iso - Use "Refracta Installer" inside "System Tools" category from start menu. - CD Username: user - CD Password: root Note: To get the same desktop as CD. Please install with the current user & root password & change them after installed.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    MATE Desktop Environment, a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional computing desktop metaphor. Also known as the GNOME2 fork.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Googsystray is a system tray app for Google Voice, GMail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google Docs. It notifies on new messages, alerts, etc., and provides basic services quickly.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    NoteCase is portable (Linux, Win32) hierarchical notes manager (aka outliner) coded in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. Project is inactive as of 2008/12/09, read more at: http://factoriel.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    DoubleType is a type designer (font editor) that builds TrueType font files. Thanks to Java, it runs on Windows, Linux, & Mac. Glyphs are stored in XML based file to aid teamwork. Efficient glyph design by combining existing glyphs and modules.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    WMakerConf (short for Window Maker Configurator) is a configuration utility for the Window Maker window manager.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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