Compiz

Compiz is a compositing manager adding fancy effects to your windows, from drop shadows to awesome desktop effects like the Desktop Cube or the Expo view.

Free Open Source Linux

Dexpot

Dexpot turns your monitor into up to 20. It creates and manages virtual desktops and enables you to work far more efficiently and comfortably with many simultaneously opened windows on Windows 95/98/ME and NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista (incl.

Free Personal Windows

VirtuaWin

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7/Win10). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’).

Free Open Source Windows

WindowsPager

WindowsPager is a desktop-switcher/pager for Windows to manage virtual workspaces/desktops. It will integrate smoothly into the desktop panel.

Free Open Source Windows

Sysinternals Desktops

Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using.

Free Windows

GiMeSpace Desktop Extender

GiMeSpace Desktop Extenders are scrolling virtual desktop managers and the only virtual desktop/window managers that give you seamless unlimited desktop space.

Commercial Windows

Mission Control

Mission Control, formerly Exposé, is a feature of the OS X operating system. Mission Control lets you view all open windows with a single keystroke: it...

Commercial Mac OS X

Nimi Visuals

Adds eye-candy effects to windows (and start menu) like deformations (e.g: jelly windows - that makes moved window wiggle like being made from jelly; or fold - which...

Free Windows

Virtual Dimension

Virtual Dimension is a free, fast, and feature-full virtual desktop manager for Windows platform.

Free Open Source Windows

Raskin

Inspired by Jef Raskin, our zoomable user interface shows you all the stuff on your computer on a single surface. Using zoom and pan to view, arrange and open documents feels so right.

Commercial Mac OS X

TotalSpaces

TotalSpaces provides a grid of spaces on OSX Lion An easy to use 2D grid of desktops, inspired by the implementation OS X Snow Leopard. Navigate using the cursor...

Commercial Mac OS X Spaces

KWin

KWin is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor. It is an integral part, and the default window manager of the...

Free Open Source Linux BSD

maComfort

Brings Mac to Windows. Makes Windows feel and look like Mac. Enables features like Quicklook (file preview without opening), Spaces (virtual desktops), Active Corners, Mac hotkeys & key combinations and more!

Freemium Windows

Virtuoz

Virtuoz was designed to be a minimal and robust program that allows to have more than one desktop on Windows.

Free Windows

mDesktop

mDesktop is a lightweight application that allows the user to utilize multiple virtual desktops. Also, mDesktop integrates with Hotcorners. mDesktop currently supports...

Free Open Source Windows

Sawfish

Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage...

Free Open Source Linux

Big Screen

Big Screen is a software that can extend the user's screen either locally or through the network. Maximum four-fold expansion of user's desktop in the standard...

Commercial Windows

goScreen

GoScreen is truly indispensable tool on any Microsoft Windows computer. It creates a number of virtual pages on the monitor screen. When a program is started, it is...

Commercial Windows

Vista and XP Virtual Desktops

One of Vistas most talked-about new features is the Desktop Window Manager (DWM). A new set of thumbnail APIs can be used to access thumbnails of open windows. This...

Free Open Source Windows