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Top 22 Shell X11 Projects
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Docker-OSX
Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.
Project mention: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-11 -
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Project mention: How to run GUI applications directly in containers | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-27
Curious that there's no comparison to https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker , which I would describe as the incumbent in this space.
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Project mention: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-16
Barely. It was originally a XFree86 project called XDarwin, adopted by Apple as a beta release for Jagwire in 2002, was an optional install in Panther and Tiger, default install in Leopard~Lion, and then was abandoned again in favor of the XOrg-maintained XQuartz after 2011:
https://xonx.sourceforge.net/ “XFree86, a free implementation of the X Window System, has been ported to Darwin and Mac OS X. […] Our work has been included in Apple's X11 for Mac OS X. ”
https://www.xquartz.org/
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gow
A collection of Dockerized games and apps like Steam, Firefox and Retroarch (by games-on-whales)
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hideIt.sh
Automagically hide/show a window by its name when the cursor is within a defined region or you mouse over it.
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x11-fractional-display-scaling
Script and instructions to get fractional display scaling working nicely on Linux distros that use X11
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remote-docker
This project uses Docker to create an environment where you can run containers on a remote host, in such a way that your local working directory is visible to the container and optionally use X11 to use a GUI.
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use-waydroid-on-x11
This guide provides comprehensive instructions for installing and using Waydroid on an X11-based Linux system. Waydroid is a powerful tool that enables you to run Android in a containerized environment on Linux, giving you a full Android system experience directly on your desktop.
I haven't tried it yet, but I did find this guide that might be useful:
https://github.com/1999AZZAR/use-waydroid-on-x11
If you try it please let me know how it went.
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screenrotate
A small script used to automatically change the various Laptops screen rotation (by Quoteme)
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dotfiles
dotfiles to manage an X11 window manager with configs for some common packages. (by majamin)
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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 X11 projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Docker-OSX | 50,227 |
| 2 | x11docker | 5,814 |
| 3 | hotfiles | 1,489 |
| 4 | XQuartz | 872 |
| 5 | termux-desktop-xfce | 561 |
| 6 | gow | 503 |
| 7 | farge | 486 |
| 8 | i3ass | 414 |
| 9 | hideIt.sh | 251 |
| 10 | x11-fractional-display-scaling | 71 |
| 11 | nowm | 57 |
| 12 | remote-docker | 50 |
| 13 | magic-mirror-raspbian-lite | 45 |
| 14 | use-waydroid-on-x11 | 35 |
| 15 | fwm | 31 |
| 16 | cwmrc | 12 |
| 17 | dot | 10 |
| 18 | gentoo_unattented-setup | 9 |
| 19 | screenrotate | 7 |
| 20 | openbsd-station | 5 |
| 21 | i3dracula | 3 |
| 22 | dotfiles | 3 |
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