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Free Open Source Desktop Environment Software

Desktop Environment Software

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  • The RMM Software That Puts the Power of Automation in Your Hands Icon
    The RMM Software That Puts the Power of Automation in Your Hands

    Proactive monitoring leads to fewer systems experiencing issues or crashes, leading to a 20% reduction in the number of tickets

    Take the Mundane and Routine Out of Tech Support With ConnectWise Automate
  • The Complete RMM Solution for MSPs and IT Pros Icon
    The Complete RMM Solution for MSPs and IT Pros

    Discover the Most Affordable and Easy to Use All-In-One Remote IT Management Solution.

    Atera helps MSPs & IT Pros save $1,000s! Atera Includes everything you need & nothing you don't: RMM, PSA, remote access, patch management, shared script library, help desk and ticketing, reports, billing and so much more. All plans include unlimited devices, You only pay per technician. Start your free trial now!
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    Microsoft's TrueType core fonts

    A smart package of Microsoft's core fonts

    So far this project consists of a source rpm that can be used to easily create a binary rpm package that, when installed, gives access to Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the Web.
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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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    GnuWin

    GnuWin

    Provides native Win32 open source ports and utilities

    GnuWin provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, relying only on libraries provided with any modern 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
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    Tcl

    Tcl

    The Tool Command Language implementation

    Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very portable interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and has been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout. Bug reports to http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/ Follow code development at http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/
  • Remote Support That Just Works Icon
    Remote Support That Just Works

    Find the Remote Desktop Software That’s Right for You & Your Clients

    Anytime, anywhere access lets you remotely control devices and help keep your clients up and running.
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    Windows X-server based on the xorg git sources (like xming or cygwin's xwin), but compiled with Visual C++ 2012 Express Edition. Source code can also be compiled with VS2008, VS2008 Express Edition and VS2010 Express Edition, although current project and makefile are not fully compatible anymore. Versions starting from 1.14.3.0 are not compatible with Windows XP anymore.
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    Auto Keyboard Presser

    Auto Keyboard Presser

    A simple to use auto keyboard presser to automate keyboard presses.

    The Autosofted Auto Keyboard Presser and Recorder is a fully hotkey compatible tool, it is also very simple to use. This is a FREE to download auto keyboard button pressing program which enables you to control which specified keys you want to keep getting pressed repeatedly. You can also control how any times you want the keys to get pressed and how long you want to wait between each key press.
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    Open-Shell

    Open-Shell

    Classic Shell Reborn, Windows enhancement software

    Improve your productivity and user experience with Open Shell, a Windows start menu alternative for Windows 10. Bringing back the classic start menu style, OpenShell is a fork and continuation of the project Classic Shell.
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    Borderless Gaming

    Borderless Gaming

    A simple tool for turning windowed video games into fullscreen apps

    Play your favorite games fullscreen and borderless with Borderless Gaming. It's a simple tool that allows you to turn windowed video games into "fullscreen" applications without all of the negative side effects and time-consuming alt-tabs.
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    Q4OS

    Q4OS

    Efficient, Rock Stable Operating System

    Q4OS is a fast and friendly, desktop oriented operating system based on Debian Linux. It deploys Plasma, optionally Trinity, as desktop environment on top of Debian Linux rock stable base. The goal is to provide long-term supported system with a special emphasis on security. This is exactly what Debian base guarantees. We prefer the Debian development model to keep the core system as immutable as possible. It results in a reliable and stable system that you can definitely rely on. Thanks to unique Q4OS tools a user can rather easily achieve setup of a fitted system eliminating superfluous packages and libraries. Therefore Q4OS performs faster and more efficient, doesn't exploit memory and computing resources with useless tasks and processes. Another exclusive Q4OS feature is an optimized support for setting up Trinity desktop environment alongside the default Plasma desktop. Installed side by side, carefully separated, both ready to run as needed. Just select one at login.
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    NetPath Network Path Analysis

    Enterprise troubleshooting tool helps reduce your mean time to resolution. Request a demo

    NetPath™, a feature in SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM), SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM), uses advanced probing to detect the network path (or paths) from a source computer to a destination service, even when traceroute can’t.
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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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    Dual Monitor Tools

    Dual Monitor Tools

    Tools for Windows users with dual or multiple monitors.

    Tools for Windows users with dual or multiple monitors. Has hotkeys for moving windows around, restrict mouse/cursor movement between screens, application launcher, wallpaper creator and changer and a screen capture tool.
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    OOO Extras

    OOO Extras

    Extra tools for OpenOffice under weak copyleft or other licenses

    A space to store classic OOo dependencies that cannot be easily redistributed in Apache OpenOffice's Source tree. Initially this was meant for copyleft tarballs only but it is also pretty handy to mirror other file dependencies.
    Downloads: 202 This Week Last Update: See Project
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    TranslucentTB

    TranslucentTB

    A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar transparent

    TranslucentTB is a utility that makes the taskbar on Windows 10 translucent/transparent. It is very lightweight, utilizing just a few MB of RAM and almost no CPU power. TranslucentTB gives your Windows desktop a cleaner, more visually appealing look and feel, and comes with a great range of features. This includes: an advanced color picker with a live preview feature for changing the taskbar color; different taskbar states that can be color-customized; and dynamic modes which change the appearance of the taskbar depending on what is being opened on your PC.
    Downloads: 197 This Week Last Update: See Project
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    uGet - Download Manager
    uGet, the Best Download Manager for Linux. uGet is a lightweight yet powerful Open Source download manager for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+, which also comes packaged as a portable Windows app. - Quick Links - Features: https://ugetdm.com/features Screenshots: https://ugetdm.com/screenshots Blog: https://ugetdm.com/blog Support: https://ugetdm.com/qa Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): https://ugetdm.com/qa/faq RSS Feed: https://ugetdm.com/rss GitHub: https://github.com/chhuang-one
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    Environment Modules

    Environment Modules

    Manage your shell environment variables and aliases

    The environment modules package provides for an easy dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles. which typically instruct the module command to alter or set shell environment variables such as PATH, MANPATH, etc. as well as define aliases over a variety of shells.
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    GTK+ for Windows Runtime Environment

    GTK+ for Windows Runtime Environment

    The files required to run GTK+ applications on Windows

    This is the GTK+ Runtime Environment Installer for Windows. It includes all of the files required to run GTK+ applications on Windows. Some support tools are also available.
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    Source Han Sans

    Source Han Sans

    Set of OpenType Pan-CJK fonts

    Source Han Sans is a set of OpenType Pan-CJK fonts. In addition to functional OpenType fonts, this open source project provides all of the source files that were used to build these OpenType fonts by using the AFDKO tools. Individual font resources or ZIP files for various deployment configurations are available for download. To help decide which fonts to download, please refer to the Configurations section of the official font readme file. Those who are unfamiliar with GitHub are encouraged to reference the official Source Han download guide, which is provided in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. You can also download entire releases that include all available configurations in two ZIP files. To build the binary font files from source, you need to have installed the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO). The AFDKO tools are widely used for font development today, and are part of most font editor applications.
    Downloads: 76 This Week Last Update: See Project
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    Digital Clock 4

    Digital Clock 4

    beautiful customizable clock with plugins

    Very customizable beautiful clock. PROJECT IS CLOSED AND NO LONGER MAINTAINED! The final version is 4.7.9. Windows 10 ready! Supported macOS version is 10.12+. Retina display ready! Apple silicon based macs (i.e. M1) are not supported. Linux build is available only for 64-bit systems. Nothing special required to start using this clock. Just launch it and enjoy! When it starts, apart the clock itself, small tray icon appears (if system tray is available). Tray icon color depends on operating system, in most cases it is black, but on Windows 10 and macOS with dark theme it is white. This tray icon can be used to call clock configuration dialog. Also this dialog can be called using clock context menu. 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 made NOT by me and I don't responsible for their content!
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    Xournal is a GTK+/Gnome application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus on Tablet PCs and other platforms. It aims to provide superior graphical quality (subpixel resolution) and overall functionality.
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    QTTabBar is extension for Windows Explorer that brings tabbed browsing to Microsoft's file browser, along with a host of other great features. Under new management! Now in public beta!
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    An extremly fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and user-friendly interface
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    Xming X Server for Windows

    Xming X Server for Windows

    X Window System Server for Windows

    Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows 8/7/Vista/XP (+ server 2012/2008/2003). It is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation).
    Downloads: 8,835 This Week Last Update: See Project
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    LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. This project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is useful enough and keep resource usage lower at the same time. Useabiliy, speed, and memory usage are our main concern. Suitable for netbooks.
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    HeSuVi

    HeSuVi

    Headphone Surround Virtualizations for Equalizer APO

    This tool imitates the 7.1 to binaural sound effect of many surround virtualizations by making use of Equalizer APO's convolution filter. Available are impulse response that were recorded with activated... – Dolby Atmos Headphone – CMSS-3D – SBX Pro Studio Surround (also found in BlasterX Acoustic Engine & THX TruStudio Pro) – Dolby Headphone – Sennheiser GSX Binaural 7.1 – DTS Headphone:X – Windows Sonic Headphone – Dolby Home Theater v4 Headphone Surround Virtualizer – Razer Surround – Out Of Your Head – Flux HEar V3 – OpenAL and DirectSound3D HRTFs – Waves Nx – and many more! Visit the wiki for more information on how it works and how to set up: https://sourceforge.net/p/hesuvi/wiki/Help/ A little demonstration video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlqpG2euh50 Equalizer APO by Jonas Thedering has to be installed first: https://equalizerapo.sourceforge.io
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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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