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We've compiled a list of 8 free and paid alternatives to Dzen. The primary competitors include Cairo-Dock, Avant Window Navigator. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Dzen and Dock, GnomePanel, tint2. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


Cairo-Dock
Free Open Source

A light, eye-candy, fully themable, MacOSX-like animated dock for any Linux desktop

Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions...

In OS X, the Dock is used as a repository for any program or file in the operating system.

GnomePanel
Free Open Source

GnomePanel is a highly configurable launcher and taskbar for GNOME.

tint2
Free Open Source

tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar unintrusive and light (memory / cpu / aestetic).

ADeskBar
Free Open Source

a lightweight application launcher for Openbox, written in Python and GTK

PyPanel
Free Open Source

PyPanel is a lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C for X11 window managers.

BMPanel
Free Open Source

BMPanel (bitmap panel) is a lightweight, NETWM compliant panel for X11 Window System, which...

Dzen is a general purpose messaging, notification and menuing program for X11.

Dzen Platforms

tick-square Linux

Dzen Overview

Dzen is a general purpose messaging, notification and menuing program for X11. It was designed to be scriptable in any language and integrate well with window managers like dwm, wmii and xmonad though it will work with any window manager.

Features

Small, fast, very tiny set of dependencies (Xlib only by default)
Scriptable in any language
Sophisticated formating language - including colours, icons, graphics
Versatile - display all sorts of information
Interactive - user defined mouse and keyboard actions
Optional XFT support
Optional XINERAMA support

Dzen Features

tick-square Notifications

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Dzen Categories

OS and Utilities

Dzen Tags

notifications menu-bar x-server messaging

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