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Top 19 C Desktop Projects

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  1. deskhop

    Fast Desktop Switching Device

    Project mention: KVMs with DisplayPort and USB over USB-C | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-24

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. ravynos

    A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.

    Project mention: FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-12

    Another angle to look at this is ravynOS, a desktop OS that could attract people interested in MacOS. The project is based on FreeBSD and has lots of customization to provide a familiar desktop experience. While the main site hasn't been updated for a while, the GitHub has a release from this year.

    https://ravynos.com/

    https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos

  4. AltSnap

    Maintained continuation of Stefan Sundin's AltDrag

    Project mention: AltSnap ile Pencereleri Fareyle Taşımanın Yepyeni Yolu | dev.to | 2025-04-15

    Resmi GitHub sayfasını aç

  5. muon

    GPU based Electron on a diet

  6. paperview

    A high performance X11 animated wallpaper setter

  7. ring

    Simple and flexible programming language for applications development (by ring-lang)

    Project mention: Ring Programming Language | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-05

  8. lagrange

    A Beautiful Gemini Client

  9. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  10. xsuspender

    :eyes: :computer: :zzz: :battery: Save battery by auto-suspending unfocused X11 applications.

  11. RudeWindowFixer

    Fix Windows taskbar always-on-top issues

  12. hudkit

    transparent fullscreen on-top click-through WebKit web view, for making cool desktop HUDs (by anko)

  13. wayward

    Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.

  14. mangl

    An enhanced man page viewer for linux and BSD systems based on OpenGL and mandoc libraries

  15. naikari

    2-D creative exploration-driven space trading and mercenary sandbox game.

  16. pirix

    Emulation of SGI's IRIX Interactive Desktop on Raspberry Pi and platforms with Motif Window Manager

    Project mention: MaXX Interactive Desktop | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-23

    Or you could just run this on it, which would probably compile just fine on Linux-MIPS: https://github.com/rhaleblian/pirix

  17. PetForDesktop

    A pet for desktop like you've never dreamed 💚

  18. nautilus-annotations

    Annotate files and directories

  19. ext

    PHP extension for building native desktop applications (by ardillo-php)

  20. compicc

    Mirrored from https://gitlab.com/compiz/compicc.git

  21. nodejs-lite-camera

    A lightweight, cross-platform Node.js library for capturing RGB frames from cameras

    Project mention: How to Build a Node.js Camera Addon and Using It for Image Processing | dev.to | 2025-01-08

  22. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Desktop projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 deskhop 7,115
2 ravynos 5,829
3 AltSnap 3,865
4 muon 2,920
5 paperview 1,472
6 ring 1,329
7 lagrange 1,319
8 xsuspender 346
9 RudeWindowFixer 123
10 hudkit 114
11 wayward 106
12 mangl 85
13 naikari 83
14 pirix 78
15 PetForDesktop 55
16 nautilus-annotations 25
17 ext 25
18 compicc 10
19 nodejs-lite-camera 2

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