Open Source User Interface (UI) Software

Window Maker Live is an installable Linux Live ISO based on the current Trixie branch of Debian. The system uses the Window Maker window manager as the default graphical user interface. Window Maker Live's components have been carefully preconfigured and the desktop environment has a consistent visual appearance. Window Maker Live integrates selected components from other desktop environments such as XFCE4, MATE, LXQT, with a particular focus on GNUstep. The main idea behind this project is to integrate the Window Maker window manager as default user interface on top of a standard Debian/Trixie base system. It also serves as an alternate installation medium for Debian/Trixie. The second main idea not directly visible on the surface level is the inclusion of many useful command line utilities and tools for system administration. This effectively turns wmlive into a UNIX administrator's workbench for rescue and repair operations.

Mac OS X Transformation Pack. Macbuntu is an open-source program, designed to transform Linux’s appearance and layout into a Mac OS X environment. Although Macbuntu is dedicated to Ubuntu Linux OS, it could be used in other OS based on Debian/GTK

The docking library for .Net Windows Forms development which mimics Visual Studio .Net.

SLAX based LiveCD showcasing Sun Microsystem's open source project "Project Looking Glass 3D" (LG3D). Presented in 2004 LG3D combines a stunning 3D UI with the benefits of Java (easily expandable and reusable code, platform independency, etc.).

A docking framework library for Gtk Sharp developments.

gmfMVC is a Model-View-Controller library built for the wxWidgets library. MVC is a design pattern that aids in the organization and implementation of windowed applications. gmfMVC is built within wxWidgets, so it is portable across many UI types.

Ex Ovo is an experimental Window Manager for X Window System in the early stage of development.

FUGE is a lightweight GUI library, intended to be used primarily in games and tools for game development. Supports graphics renderer adaptation, real-time layout editing, XML serialization, color schemes. Documentation contain tutorials with examples. Available on MS Windows and Linux.

Most developer’s wish list probably hosts the idea of exploring new ways of decorating his/her applications window... Of course, preferences of current OSes do propose a few options, but some may want more, or different choices, would it just be to frame their apps with their own uniform “branded” style. FXWindowFramer is a quite simple JavaFX library, which may be used to change the look&feel of a JavaFX application (applying just a few cosmetic changes through CSS definitions), or, as a starting point, to investigate more advanced alternatives... To keep things simple and the prototype easy to understand, FXWindowFramer only touches the application window frame (borders and nameplate), and only supports, as such, desktop applications that do not need resizing. The goal is : Keep the painting intact, but change that frame, keeping it as simple and close to usual JavaFX initialization as possible!

"Java Textual Desktop" project stands for the classical TEXT screen with java implementation inspired with Curcus which used for decades in the history of UNIX (linux).

MyDoggy is an IntelliJ Idea like docking framework for managing secondary windows within the main window. MyDoggy allows to move, resize or detach those secondary windows. Also, MyDoggy provides support for content management of the main window.

The Pawn will make it possibly for you to tell the computer exactly what you would like it to do. Fiction. No its reality now. The highly customizable slackware will be the base for Pawn.

PyE is a Python wrapper around Enlightenment Foundation Libraries written in Pyrex

Quick dash is an application dashboard made to cut off the time taken between switching between various applications, especially when you are a Programmer/Developer.

SLWM is a new concept in window management. Its goal is to be a hybrid of a tiled and regular window manager, with the addition of an infinite desktop. All windows are also headless.

Sakura is a Knowledge Navigator and User Interface for UNIX, which implements HyperMedia and its own windowing and packing system, both in the main program and in an extensive API for Tcl and other languages.

Terra-Terra is a virtual operating system, giving the full power of an OS to your internet server. Application developers can build webbased application for Terra-Terra, using its user interface, security system, RTL etc as with any OS.

User-mode Window Manager for 32- and 64-bit Microsoft Windows(tm).

VD File Searcher is desktop application for finding local files. It will help you easily and very quickly find files and directories on your local hard discs and other storage drives. Developed in Java programming language and based on the fastest open source Lucene search engine, it runs on every platform and find files in a second no matter how big your file system is, or how many files you have there.

glWidget is Window Manager and UI framework cross-plataform render under OpenGL library.

gui chung , an compact freeware to program easy gui multi windows api applications in freebasic. Included support of freebasic graphics gfx, openGL and irrlicht 3D engine. Inspired from Liberty Basic simple gui coding syntax.(combined with fbedit ide , is easier to use than Liberty Basic and 1000x faster)

gui chung dll is a dll version of gui_chung to easily make gui windows with graphics in any language , as c/c++, with simple syntax inspired from Liberty Basic easy gui coding (buttons, combobox, edittext, statictext, listbox, menu, graphicbox,...). Includes creation of openGL windows and guiloadtexture from jpg with alpha, and gfx graphics windows drawing. It is based on windows api and is written in compiled freebasic.