Top 15 Xfce Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. Among its main features are its customizable panels on which users can place various launchers or panel plugins. Xfce is also accompanied by a large collection of goodies, which consist of various applications and panel plugins designed mainly for Xfce.

The current version, 4.10, has an elegant and modular design. It consists of separately packaged components that together provide the full functionality of the Desktop Environment, but which can be selected in subsets to create the user's preferred personal working environment. Xfce can be used to run a modern desktop environment on relatively modest hardware.

1. Enlightenment

Enlightenment Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager. It covers......

2. Phoenix

Phoenix Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint. If you like the idea of scripting your own window or app management toolkit with......

3. Sawfish

Sawfish Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. All high-level WM functions are implemented in Lisp for future extensibility or redefinition.FEATURES: Powerful......

4. spectrwm

spectrwm spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It......

5. Emcee

Emcee Emcee gives you a better way: one customizable keystroke or hot-corner gesture, or a tap on an icon brings up live thumbnail views of all your apps, both desktop and Windows Store, in one convenient, easy to manage view.Emcee is a simple "expose" like tool with some of the features......

6. EDE

EDE Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems......

7. WMFS²

WMFS² WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.......

8. pekwm

pekwm pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties, xinerama, keygrabber that......

9. Deskovery

Deskovery Deskovery is an all in one windows manager for OS X.- Windowshade (or minimize to title bars)- Change Transparency- Resize & align- Drag to resize- Pin in all spaces- 10.9 zoom button behaviour on Yosemite- Wobbly windows......

10. Slate

Slate Slate is a window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). Originally written to replace them due to some limitations in how each work, it attempts to overcome them by simply being extremely configurable. As a result, it may be a bit daunting to get configured,......

11. Optimal Layout

Optimal Layout Optimal Layout is a powerful Mac OS X application for managing your applications windows. Optimal Layout gives you keyboard shortcuts to instantly organize your windows and simple ways to layout windows with your mouse.......

12. WindowTidy

WindowTidy Arrange your application windows using nothing but drag and drop! There are no hot-keys to remember or menus to click, just drag and drop a window onto Layout Icon and it will instantly snap to that layout.The behaviour and appearance of Window Tidy are highly customisable to streamline your individual......

13. Shiftit

Shiftit ShiftIt is an application for OSX that allows you to quickly manipulate window position and size using keyboard shortcuts. It intends to become a full featured window organizer for OSX.......

14. Slax

Slax Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. SLAX is a LiveCD Linux distribution based on Slackware . Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical......

15. Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things: * Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD) * Boot from a USB pen drive * Boot from within a......