A lightweight single-header cross-platform library for general windowing

macos lightweight unix library opengl cross-platform graphics c99 winapi x11 windowing cocoa xlib pure-c silicon webasm single-header hedgehogsoft

• Updated Nov 10, 2026
• C

🍓 A healthy, byte-sized window manager

c linux manager x11 wm window xlib stacking

• Updated Mar 22, 2026
• C

An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).

xorg wm xlib

• Updated Sep 10, 2023
• C

💻📱 A cross platform system abstraction library written in C++ for managing windows and performing OS tasks.

android windows macos linux ios cmake cross-platform main uwp uikit webassembly emscripten cocoa xlib win32 xcb wayland mir

• Updated Aug 15, 2024
• C++

My fork of xwinwrap. Xwinwrap allows you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background.

x11 gif desktop-background xlib xwinwrap gif-background

• Updated Jun 9, 2022
• C

X11 node.js network protocol client

gui x11 xlib

• Updated Nov 9, 2026
• JavaScript

XLib in pure Python (Py2/Py3 compatible)

python linux python-library python3 xlib python-3 python-2 python2

• Updated Apr 1, 2023
• Python

The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session

task i3 x11 standalone window switcher xlib task-switcher alttab

• Updated Nov 11, 2026
• C

🌳 X11 tiling window manager using space partitioning trees

linux tree algorithms cpp x11 window-manager tree-structure xlib tiling-window-manager wmderland

• Updated Mar 19, 2023
• C++

a x11 menu utility

c unix x11 menu xlib imlib2 xmenu

• Updated Sep 28, 2026
• C

A pie-menu in xlib and imlib2.

c unix x11 pie-menu menu xlib imlib2 xshape xrender

• Updated Sep 26, 2026
• C

https://codeberg.org/seninha/shod

unix x11 tiling wm window-manager xlib tiling-window-manager x11-wm

• Updated Aug 26, 2025

read notifications from stdin and pop them up on the screen

notifications c unix x11 notification xlib imlib2

• Updated Oct 13, 2023
• C

THIS PROJECT IS CURRENTLY UNMAINTAINED! lcarsde is the LCARS Desktop Environment, which consists of lcarswm and additional tool applications. This repository contains general information.

kotlin gtk coroutines xorg gtk3 message-queue window-manager xlib desktop-environment libxml kotlin-coroutines lcars kotlin-native cinterop kotlin-multiplatform lcars-interface

• Updated Oct 15, 2026
• Kotlin

Xlib window manager (at one time based on tinywm, but SmallWM has long outgrown it)

c-plus-plus window-manager xlib

• Updated Feb 29, 2020
• C++

An in-process implementation of Xlib layered on top of SDL2/SDL3

macos linux sdl2 x11 xlib wayland xcb-api x-window-system sdl3

• Updated Aug 31, 2026
• C

Configurable and simple file manager for X11

c unix filemanager x11 ppm pthreads xlib file-manager xpm

• Updated Apr 6, 2025
• C

A dmenu rip-off with contextual completion

c unix input-method x11 dmenu xlib dmenu-replacement xim

• Updated Jan 13, 2023
• C

click on root window and run a command

unix x11 xlib

• Updated Aug 31, 2024
• C

DEPRECATED - USE https://github.com/lcarsde/lcarsde. lcarswm (LCARS Window Manager) is a window manager that is supposed to look like an LCARS interface. It's written in Kotlin and utilizing XLib.

kotlin xorg deprecated message-queue window-manager xlib libxml2 lcars kotlin-native lcars-interface

• Updated Feb 1, 2025
• Kotlin