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  • asmvik/yabaiasmvik avatar

    asmvik/yabai

    29,093View on GitHub↗

    Yabai is a system-level utility for macOS that provides automated window management and workspace organization. It functions as a tiling window manager that uses binary space partitioning to arrange application windows into grid layouts, bypassing standard desktop constraints through direct interaction with the system window server. The project distinguishes itself by offering granular control over the graphical user interface via a socket-based command interface and event-driven system hooks. This allows for the programmatic manipulation of window states, display configurations, and virtual

    C
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  • ianyh/amethystianyh avatar

    ianyh/Amethyst

    16,009View on GitHub↗

    Amethyst is a tiling window manager for macOS designed to automate the arrangement of application windows. It functions as a productivity utility that organizes windows into non-overlapping layouts, allowing users to manage their desktop environment through keyboard-driven controls rather than manual mouse interaction. The application distinguishes itself by providing a state-machine engine that calculates window geometry based on user-defined tiling patterns. It maintains an accurate representation of the desktop by monitoring system-level notifications for window events, enabling it to auto

    Swiftmacmacoswindow-manager
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  • lwouis/alt-tab-macoslwouis avatar

    lwouis/alt-tab-macos

    14,841View on GitHub↗

    Alt-tab-macos is a productivity utility designed to replace the default application switcher on macOS. It functions as a background application that aggregates active windows across all monitors and virtual desktops into a single, keyboard-driven interface, allowing users to navigate between applications, minimized windows, and hidden processes. The tool distinguishes itself by providing granular control over window states and visibility, enabling users to close, minimize, or toggle fullscreen modes directly from the switcher. It supports advanced navigation through customizable keyboard shor

    Swiftalt-tabalttabexpose
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  • niri-wm/niriniri-wm avatar

    niri-wm/niri

    20,069View on GitHub↗

    Niri is a Wayland compositor and tiling window manager designed for Linux systems. It functions as a display server that organizes application windows into a scrollable, column-based layout, providing a structured environment for managing graphical sessions, input routing, and hardware output. The project distinguishes itself through a declarative configuration engine that enables live-reloading of settings, allowing users to modify window rules, input bindings, and visual appearance without restarting the session. It features a physics-based animation system that uses spring-based curves to

    Rustrustsmithaytiling-window-manager
    View on GitHub↗20,069
  • neovide/neovideneovide avatar

    neovide/neovide

    15,076View on GitHub↗

    Neovide is a cross-platform graphical frontend for the Neovim text editor. It provides a native windowed interface that preserves terminal-based functionality and keyboard-driven workflows while introducing a hardware-accelerated display layer. By utilizing GPU-accelerated rendering, the application ensures high-performance visual output across different desktop operating systems. The project distinguishes itself through an interpolated animation engine that provides fluid, frame-by-frame transitions for cursor movement and scrolling. It features an asynchronous input event loop to maintain i

    Rustgpuneovimneovim-guis
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  • eythaann/seelen-uieythaann avatar

    eythaann/Seelen-UI

    15,953View on GitHub↗

    Seelen-UI is a graphical shell and window management utility for Windows that provides a modular, keyboard-driven desktop environment. It enables users to organize application windows through automated tiling, stacking, and floating layouts, while offering a framework for creating interactive desktop widgets using web technologies. The project distinguishes itself by integrating a web-based rendering engine that bridges system-state data to HTML and CSS interfaces, allowing for highly customizable widgets and dynamic visual themes. It features real-time wallpaper analysis to automatically syn

    Rustapp-launcherdesktop-applicationdock
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  • awesomewm/awesomeawesomeWM avatar

    awesomeWM/awesome

    6,905View on GitHub↗

    Awesome is a programmable tiling window manager for the X11 Window System. It functions as a dynamic window manager that automatically arranges application windows into non-overlapping tiles based on predefined layout rules to maximize screen space. The project provides a scriptable desktop environment where system behaviors and layouts are defined through an embedded Lua interpreter. This allows for the creation of a personalized interface and a keyboard-driven workflow for managing application windows. The system covers dynamic window layout management and the configuration of system behav

    Lua
    View on GitHub↗6,905
  • yalter/niriYaLTeR avatar

    YaLTeR/niri

    25,282View on GitHub↗

    Niri is a Wayland compositor that provides a desktop environment for Linux. Its primary purpose is to implement a scrollable tiling window management system, which organizes application windows in a non-overlapping layout that allows horizontal scrolling to access content beyond the screen edge. The compositor features multi-monitor workspace coordination, managing window arrangements and fractional scaling across displays with different resolutions and pixel densities. It supports a dynamic workspace organization model where independent vertical workspace stacks are maintained per monitor.

    Rust
    View on GitHub↗25,282
  • paperwm/paperwmpaperwm avatar

    paperwm/PaperWM

    4,170View on GitHub↗

    PaperWM is a tiling window manager and multi-monitor workspace manager implemented as a GNOME Shell extension. It organizes application windows into a non-overlapping, scrollable horizontal tiling layout, allowing users to manage more applications than can fit on a single screen. The system is distinguished by its scrollable-viewport tiling, which allows navigation through a sequence of windows via keyboard shortcuts and touchpad gestures. It also features a multi-monitor workspace organization model that assigns independent tiling instances to each physical display while synchronizing them t

    JavaScript
    View on GitHub↗4,170
  • gh0stzk/dotfilesgh0stzk avatar

    gh0stzk/dotfiles

    4,329View on GitHub↗

    This project is a collection of configuration files for managing a personalized Linux desktop environment. It provides a comprehensive bundle for a tiling window manager, a Zsh shell environment, and a Neovim editor setup to synchronize software settings across different machines. The configuration focuses on unified system theming, utilizing a cross-application theme suite to sync color palettes and visual styles across the terminal, browser, and system utilities. It includes a visual settings editor for immediate theme switching and wallpaper management without requiring session restarts.

    Shellalacrittyarchlinuxbspwm
    View on GitHub↗4,329
  • end-4/dots-hyprlandend-4 avatar

    end-4/dots-hyprland

    12,857View on GitHub↗

    This project is a configuration suite for the Hyprland Wayland compositor, providing a set of automated scripts and files to deploy a consistent desktop environment across Linux distributions. It functions as an automation tool that synchronizes system settings, software packages, and interface themes to ensure a uniform workspace state. The environment distinguishes itself through deep integration with language models, allowing users to access local or cloud-based AI assistants directly from the desktop interface for tasks such as text translation and content generation. Visual consistency i

    QMLdotfileshyprlandlinux
    View on GitHub↗12,857
  • elenapan/dotfileselenapan avatar

    elenapan/dotfiles

    3,896View on GitHub↗

    This project is a collection of Unix dotfiles and a custom desktop environment configuration for Linux. It provides a standardized set of configuration files to ensure consistent shell and application behavior, centering on a tiling window manager setup and a personalized user interface. The environment features a desktop dashboard with modular widgets and sidebars that display system performance, weather, and media controls. It includes a comprehensive keyboard shortcut map using global and mode-specific keybindings to launch applications and control system actions. The configuration covers

    Lua
    View on GitHub↗3,896
  • simular-ai/agent-ssimular-ai avatar

    simular-ai/Agent-S

    11,855View on GitHub↗

    Agent-S is a multimodal AI agent and LLM desktop automation framework designed to control operating systems through graphical user interface interactions. It functions as a computer use interface, utilizing vision-language grounding to translate natural language goals into precise screen coordinates and system actions. The project differentiates itself by combining structured accessibility tree inspection with vision-based element localization. It manages cross-application workflows by mapping conceptual descriptions to physical pixels and simulating low-level keyboard and mouse events to mov

    Pythonagent-computer-interfaceai-agentscomputer-automation
    View on GitHub↗11,855
  • polybar/polybarpolybar avatar

    polybar/polybar

    15,280View on GitHub↗

    Polybar is a customizable X11 status bar and Linux desktop panel. It serves as a system information dashboard and window manager integration tool, rendering real-time hardware metrics, system status, and window state for Linux desktops. The project features an inter-process communication system that allows separate processes to trigger dynamic updates or execute actions across the environment. It also includes a system for building hierarchical interactive menus that use this messaging to launch applications and system settings. Capabilities cover system monitoring for network connectivity a

    C++
    View on GitHub↗15,280
  • qtile/qtileqtile avatar

    qtile/qtile

    5,273View on GitHub↗

    Qtile is a programmable tiling window manager and compositor written and configured in Python. It organizes application windows into non-overlapping tiles or floating modes to maximize screen real estate and supports both X11 and Wayland display server protocols. The environment is defined by executing Python scripts, allowing the programmatic customization of keybindings, visual styles, and system behaviors. This approach enables a personalized workspace where the entire user interface and layout logic are managed through a script-based configuration. The project covers broad capability are

    Python
    View on GitHub↗5,273
  • i3/i3i3 avatar

    i3/i3

    10,489View on GitHub↗

    i3 is a configurable tiling window manager for the X11 window system. It organizes application windows into non-overlapping tiles to maximize screen real estate, utilizing a dynamic layout engine that removes the need for manual positioning or resizing. The system is designed for keyboard-driven desktop workflows, where window organization and behavior are defined through a plain text configuration file. It enables X11 desktop customization by allowing users to programmatically define layouts and keybindings. The manager provides inter-process communication via a Unix domain socket, allowing

    C
    View on GitHub↗10,489
  • jordansissel/xdotooljordansissel avatar

    jordansissel/xdotool

    3,822View on GitHub↗

    xdotool is a command-line utility for X11 desktop automation that simulates keyboard and mouse input and manages application windows. It functions as a scriptable tool that maps sequential text instructions to low-level library calls to control the X11 graphical environment. The project enables the generation of synthetic keyboard and mouse events to automate interactions with graphical user interfaces. It also acts as a window manager controller, allowing users to programmatically move, resize, focus, and organize application windows and virtual desktops. The tool covers a wide range of cap

    C
    View on GitHub↗3,822
  • hammerspoon/hammerspoonHammerspoon avatar

    Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

    14,497View on GitHub↗

    Hammerspoon is a programmable automation engine for macOS that enables deep system-level control through a Lua scripting environment. By bridging high-level scripts with native Objective-C APIs, it allows users to interact with the operating system's accessibility tree, intercept hardware input streams, and manage the lifecycle of running applications. The project distinguishes itself through an event-driven architecture that registers asynchronous hooks for system notifications and hardware events. This allows for real-time automation, such as remapping keyboard and mouse inputs, managing wi

    Objective-Cautomationhammerspoonirc
    View on GitHub↗14,497
  • koekeishiya/yabaikoekeishiya avatar

    koekeishiya/yabai

    29,111View on GitHub↗

    yabai is a tiling window manager and workspace orchestrator for macOS. It uses a binary space partitioning algorithm to automatically arrange application windows into non-overlapping rectangular regions to maximize screen real estate. The project provides a command line interface for controlling windows, displays, and virtual spaces, enabling the creation of custom desktop automation scripts. It includes capabilities for managing virtual desktops and disabling system animations to increase navigation speed. The system also supports mouse-based window focus, which automatically shifts the act

    C
    View on GitHub↗29,111
  • zellij-org/zellijzellij-org avatar

    zellij-org/zellij

    33,683View on GitHub↗

    Zellij is a terminal multiplexer and workspace manager designed to organize command-line sessions into persistent, reconfigurable layouts. It functions as a terminal plugin framework, allowing users to extend their environment with modular, event-driven components that interact with the host through a structured message-passing protocol. The project distinguishes itself through a layout-engine-based architecture that decouples visual pane arrangements from process execution, enabling automated and repeatable terminal workflows. It includes integrated support for web-based remote access, facil

    Rustmultiplexerterminalworkspace
    View on GitHub↗33,683
  • alexays/waybarAlexays avatar

    Alexays/Waybar

    10,686View on GitHub↗

    Waybar is a modular status bar for Wayland compositors that provides a configuration-driven interface for system monitoring and desktop management. It functions as a shell component that integrates directly with Wayland protocols to track window manager states, manage system tray icons, and display real-time hardware, network, and power metrics. The project distinguishes itself through a highly flexible architecture that allows for independent or synchronized interface bars across multiple monitors, each with unique layout and styling rules. Users can extend the bar's functionality by creatin

    C++bargtki3status
    View on GitHub↗10,686
  • pop-os/shellpop-os avatar

    pop-os/shell

    5,226View on GitHub↗

    This project is an automatic tiling window manager and a GNOME desktop interface extension. It functions as a keyboard-driven window orchestrator that organizes application windows into non-overlapping grids using a hierarchical tree structure to subdivide and rearrange screen space. The system provides a multi-monitor layout manager that handles window placement across multiple display outputs and automatically re-tiles when monitors are connected or disconnected. It includes a searchable, asynchronous interface for launching applications, system settings, and locating open windows. The sof

    TypeScriptgnome-shell-extensionpop-ostiling
    View on GitHub↗5,226
  • baskerville/bspwmbaskerville avatar

    baskerville/bspwm

    8,274View on GitHub↗

    bspwm is an X11 tiling window manager that organizes application windows into non-overlapping rectangular tiles using binary space partitioning. It treats the screen as a tree of rectangular regions to automatically manage window placement and is compliant with Extended Window Manager Hints. The project is distinguished by a socket-based window controller, which allows layout changes and configuration settings to be updated via a communication socket rather than through a built-in configuration file. It provides independent window tree management for each detected monitor, treating every dis

    C
    View on GitHub↗8,274
  • siduck/chadwmsiduck avatar

    siduck/chadwm

    2,955View on GitHub↗

    chadwm is a tiling window manager for X11 written in C. It organizes application windows using dynamic tiling layouts and automated arrangement patterns to manage screen real estate. The project utilizes a patch-based extension system to integrate specific behaviors, such as Fibonacci tiling and vanity gaps. It employs a tagging system for workspace organization, allowing windows to be segmented into virtual desktops. The environment includes a modular widget framework for monitoring system metrics and hardware controls, alongside centralized configuration files for managing visual themes an

    Ccatppuccindotfilesdotfiles-linux
    View on GitHub↗2,955
  • material-shell/material-shellmaterial-shell avatar

    material-shell/material-shell

    7,255View on GitHub↗

    Material Shell is a tiling window manager and Linux desktop environment that replaces traditional window management with a grid-based organizer. It functions as a spatial layout engine that automatically arranges application windows into non-overlapping grids to maximize screen space. The system acts as a desktop session manager, recording and restoring window positions and workspace assignments to preserve the exact state of a previous session after a restart. It employs a coordinate-based layout engine to map applications to specific rows and cells for consistent placement. The project cov

    TypeScriptgnomegnome-shellgnome-shell-extension
    View on GitHub↗7,255
  • domferr/tilingshelldomferr avatar

    domferr/tilingshell

    1,934View on GitHub↗

    Tilingshell is a window management extension for the GNOME desktop environment that organizes application windows into structured grid layouts. It functions as a desktop utility that automates window placement and provides tools for customizing the graphical interface of Linux systems. The project distinguishes itself through a constraint-based geometry engine that maintains alignment during resizing and a declarative rendering system that maps grid definitions to screen space. It supports workspace-scoped state management, allowing for independent tiling configurations across different virtu

    TypeScriptfancyzonesgnomegnome-extension
    View on GitHub↗1,934
  • airblader/i3Airblader avatar

    Airblader/i3

    5,799View on GitHub↗

    i3 is an X11 tiling window manager for Linux that organizes application windows into a non-overlapping grid to maximize screen space. It functions as a configurable window layout engine and a desktop environment component that interfaces with the X Window System to handle window placement and input events. The manager specifically provides the ability to add configurable visual spacing and gaps between windows and screen edges. It determines window borders and spacing by parsing a text configuration file at startup or during runtime. The system covers workspace layout optimization and interf

    Ci3i3-gapsi3wm
    View on GitHub↗5,799
  • johnlindquist/kitjohnlindquist avatar

    johnlindquist/kit

    4,189View on GitHub↗

    Kit is a desktop automation framework and scriptable UI toolkit designed for building personalized productivity tools. It serves as a cross-platform CLI wrapper and macOS system automator, providing an environment to execute scripts that manage operating system tasks, file management, and application workflows. The project distinguishes itself with a dedicated LLM integration layer for structured data extraction and text generation, alongside a specialized UI framework for creating interactive input forms, HTML windows, and floating widgets. It features deep macOS integration through AppleScr

    TypeScript
    View on GitHub↗4,189
  • nikitabobko/aerospacenikitabobko avatar

    nikitabobko/AeroSpace

    21,242View on GitHub↗

    AeroSpace is a tiling window manager for macOS that automatically arranges application windows into grid-based layouts. It functions as a keyboard-driven controller, allowing users to manage window positioning, workspace navigation, and display assignments entirely through customizable keyboard commands. The project distinguishes itself by operating as a background daemon that utilizes system-level accessibility frameworks and low-level window server hooks to enforce tiling behavior. It employs a declarative configuration system to define layout rules and maintains workspace consistency throu

    Swiftapplei3i3wm
    View on GitHub↗21,242
  • jigish/slatejigish avatar

    jigish/slate

    7,836View on GitHub↗

    Slate is a keyboard-driven window manager and tiling system for macOS. It functions as a JavaScript-configurable automation tool and workflow orchestrator, allowing users to resize and position application windows through custom keystroke bindings and predefined spatial configurations. The project distinguishes itself by using a scripting API to define complex window manipulation logic, system event callbacks, and custom input mappings. This allows for the creation of sequenced action chains and the execution of external shell commands tied to specific keyboard shortcuts. Its capabilities in

    Objective-C
    View on GitHub↗7,836