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Top 9 Utilities in Desktop Environments

The best Utilities within the Desktop Environments category - based on our collection of reviews & verified products.

i3 bspwm dwm Fluxbox Hyprland Xmonad IceWM spectrwm

Summary

The top products on this list are i3, bspwm, and dwm. All products here are categorized as: General category for tools that provide additional functionalities and enhancements. Desktop Environments. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
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    i3

    A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 90 social mentions

  2. 2
    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 21 social mentions

  3. 3

    dwm

    dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 67 social mentions

  4. Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

    #Linux #Utilities #Window Manager

  5. Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 6 social mentions

  6. Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. - GitHub - vaxerski/Hyprland: Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on ...

    #Linux #Electronics #Linux Distribution 3 social mentions

  7. 7
    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 15 social mentions

  8. 8
    icewm home page . Bug Tracking. If you have a patch, a bug report or a feature request to submit, please do so at the icewm project page at SourceForge.

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities

  9. spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 12 social mentions

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