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X11 projects on GitHub

The X11 window system, its apps and desktop tooling.

As of , the most-starred X11 projects on GitHub are Docker-OSX (53K stars), WindTerm (32.5K stars) and flameshot (31.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 27 X11 repositories with 318.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was DroidDesk, with +165 stars in a day.

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+380Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+165

DroidDesk

orailnoor/DroidDesk · ★ 4.2K

DroidDesk turns an Android phone into a full Linux desktop using Termux, Termux:X11, TUR, and Proot, letting you run apps like VS Code, Firefox, LibreOffice, Blender, and even Metasploit directly on your phone.

+85

DEsk

fyzugx/DEsk · ★ 1.1K

DEsk is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux built around a realistic skeuomorphic design (like iOS 6) where the whole desktop is drawn as an actual desk: windows are sheets of paper, the dock is a drawer, apps sit in binders on a bookshelf, notifications arrive in a post box, and settings live in a control panel built into the desk.

+30

niri

niri-wm/niri · ★ 28.5K

niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for Linux, written in Rust on top of Smithay. Its signature idea: windows sit in columns on an infinite strip that scrolls to the right.

+19

lcu

amontlabs/lcu · ★ 1.2K

LCU extracts Codex's built-in computer-use runtime out of the ChatGPT desktop app and exposes it to any AI coding harness (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Pi), so an agent can click, type, read windows, and take screenshots on your machine without needing Codex authentication.

The all-time top

27 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · sickcodes/Docker-OSX

    Docker-OSX

    Docker-OSX lets you run a full macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container using KVM, giving near-native performance for security research, CI/CD, and development without owning a real Mac.

    53K
  2. #2 · kingToolbox/WindTerm

    WindTerm

    WindTerm is a free professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client and terminal built for DevOps, combining remote connections, a local shell and file transfer in one application.

    32.5K
  3. #3 · flameshot-org/flameshot

    flameshot

    Flameshot is a free, open-source screenshot tool: capture a screen region, annotate it in a built-in editor, then save it, copy it or share it online.

    31.2K
  1. 4

    niri

    28.5Kniri-wm/niri · Rust

    niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for Linux, written in Rust on top of Smithay. Its signature idea: windows sit in columns on an infinite strip that scrolls to the right.

  2. 5

    iTerm2-Color-Schemes

    27.3Kmbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes · Shell

    A community collection of over 750 color schemes for the iTerm2 terminal, with every scheme also ported to dozens of other terminals and editors.

  3. 6

    rofi

    16.5Kdavatorium/rofi · C

    Rofi is a window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement for Linux and BSD. It pops up a searchable list where you can jump between open windows, launch apps, connect over SSH or browse files.

  4. 7

    polybar

    15.4Kpolybar/polybar · C++

    Polybar is a fast, highly customizable status bar for Linux desktop environments, showing things like workspace info, system stats, volume, battery and more.

  5. 8

    FreeRDP

    13.8KFreeRDP/FreeRDP · C

    FreeRDP is a free, open-source implementation of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) — a C library plus ready-to-use client apps for connecting to remote desktops.

  6. 9

    pyautogui

    12.7Kasweigart/pyautogui · Python

    PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform Python module that lets you programmatically control the mouse and keyboard to automate GUI interactions.

  7. 10

    wslg

    12Kmicrosoft/wslg · C++

    WSLg (Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI) adds support to WSL for running Linux GUI applications (X11 and Wayland) directly on the Windows desktop, with windows appearing in the taskbar, Start Menu, and alt-tab like native apps.

  8. 11

    Nuklear

    11.5KImmediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear · C

    Nuklear is a minimal-state, immediate-mode graphical user interface toolkit written in ANSI C, designed as a simple embeddable UI that you build into your own application.

  9. 12

    kakoune

    11.1Kmawww/kakoune · C++

    Kakoune is a modal code editor that runs in the terminal and implements Vi's 'keystrokes as a text editing language' model. It was originally inspired by Vim and puts a strong focus on interactivity and multiple selections.

  10. 13

    robotgo

    10.9Kgo-vgo/robotgo · Go

    A Go library for native cross-platform desktop automation: it drives the mouse and keyboard, reads the screen, manages windows and processes, and listens to global events — aimed at RPA, auto-testing and AI computer use.

  11. 14

    i3

    10.6Ki3/i3 · C

    i3 is a tiling window manager for X11 — a program that controls how application windows are arranged on your screen.

  12. 15

    peek

    10.5Kphw/peek · Vala

    Peek is a simple screen recorder for Linux with an easy to use interface: you place its window over a screen area, press Record, and get an animated GIF. It can also record directly to WebM.

  13. 16

    DroidDesk

    4.2Korailnoor/DroidDesk · Kotlin

    DroidDesk turns an Android phone into a full Linux desktop using Termux, Termux:X11, TUR, and Proot, letting you run apps like VS Code, Firefox, LibreOffice, Blender, and even Metasploit directly on your phone.

  14. 17

    codex-desktop-linux

    3.9Kilysenko/codex-desktop-linux · JavaScript

    codex-desktop is an unofficial, community-maintained distribution of OpenAI's official Linux ChatGPT desktop app. It repackages the signed upstream payload into native deb, RPM, pacman, AppImage, and Nix outputs, adds optional Linux-only features, and installs as a separate 'ChatGPT Community' app alongside the official one.

  15. 18

    Podroid

    3.6KExTV/Podroid · Kotlin

    Podroid is a rootless Android app that boots a real Alpine Linux virtual machine on your phone, letting you run Linux containers (Podman, Docker, LXC) and even full GUI desktop apps.

  16. 19

    xpra

    3KXpra-org/xpra · Python

    Xpra lets you run X11 applications on a remote host and display them on your local machine, keeping them running even after you disconnect - essentially 'screen' for GUI apps. It also supports full remote desktop sessions and screen sharing, with a built-in HTML5 web client.

  17. 20

    vinix

    2.6Kvlang/vinix · V

    Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language — a hobby OS project that also feeds improvements back into the V compiler.

  18. 21

    lcu

    1.2Kamontlabs/lcu · JavaScript

    LCU extracts Codex's built-in computer-use runtime out of the ChatGPT desktop app and exposes it to any AI coding harness (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Pi), so an agent can click, type, read windows, and take screenshots on your machine without needing Codex authentication.

  19. 22

    DEsk

    1.1Kfyzugx/DEsk · C

    DEsk is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux built around a realistic skeuomorphic design (like iOS 6) where the whole desktop is drawn as an actual desk: windows are sheets of paper, the dock is a drawer, apps sit in binders on a bookshelf, notifications arrive in a post box, and settings live in a control panel built into the desk.

  20. 23

    sshdesk

    533rylena/sshdesk · Python

    SSHDESK is a full interactive remote desktop delivered entirely through an SSH session and rendered directly inside your terminal, with no browser, VNC/RDP, or extra network port required.

  21. 24

    gyotaku

    341xevrion/gyotaku · Rust

    gyotaku is a native desktop app that OCRs every screenshot you take and lets you search them by the text inside them instead of by filename. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, entirely offline, and highlights the matched words when you open a result.

  22. 25

    ssh-clipboard

    244standardagents/ssh-clipboard · Rust

    ssh-clipboard syncs your clipboard across macOS and Linux machines over SSH: copy on one computer, paste on another, with text, images, files, and rich content kept in their native formats. There is no cloud component.

  23. 26

    solari-cookbook

    191solari-sdk/solari-cookbook · Python

    A cookbook of small, runnable example programs for Solari, a service that gives you cloud browsers, sandboxes, and desktop VMs behind a single API key.

  24. 27

    juhradial-mx

    140JuhLabs/juhradial-mx · Python

    JuhRadial MX is an open-source Linux app that fills the gap left by Logitech's Options+ software, giving MX Master mice (and now the MX Keypad and MX Keys S) a radial action menu, button remapping and per-app profiles on KDE Plasma, GNOME and Hyprland.

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