python-os

collection of hackable python operating system components. All written, configurable and extendable in python!

Desktop Environments / Window Managers

• Qtile - A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python.

Terminal Emulators

• Kitty - fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator.

Shells

• Xonsh - Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. The language is a superset of Python 3.5+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. Xonsh is meant for the daily use of experts and novices alike.

Browsers

• Qutebrowser - keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI. It’s based on Python and PyQt5 and free software, licensed under the GPL. It was inspired by other browsers/addons like dwb and Vimperator/Pentadactyl.

File Managers

• Ranger - ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. It ships with rifle, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type.

Utils

• xkeysnail - keyboard remapping tool for X environment written in Python. It’s like xmodmap but allows more flexible remappings. Full python config and allows binding python function calls on key presses.