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Enlightenment

Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
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  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Wayland Support
  2.  Desktop Environment
  3.  X server

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Enlightenment was added to AlternativeTo by kale on and this page was last updated . Enlightenment is sometimes referred to as Enlightenment Window Manager. 
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What is Enlightenment?

Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system. Source code releases are on our download page. Visit our contribute page for our latest source code repositories.

The project is currently primarily supporting X11 but has experimental Wayland support.

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 uses from small mobile devices like phones all the way to powerful multi-core desktops (which are the primary development environment).