Fresco

Fresco is an impressive distributed windowing system that has been designed as a full windowing system based on the powerful structured graphics toolkit, InterViews. It boasts of several extensions which elevate it to the position of a complete windowing system, with command of the video hardware and the ability to process user input directly. With the aid of GGI, SDL, DirectFB, or GLUT, Fresco features a vast drawing interface with multiple backends, among other sophisticated features.

One feature that adds to Fresco's allure is its upgrade to modern CORBA standards, an advanced Unicode-capable text system, dynamic module loading, and multiple communication abstractions for connecting other processes to the server. The software is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License and is entirely developed by volunteers on the internet, leveraging free software.

Fresco requires a set of tools that includes g++, omniORB, General Graphics Interface, Simple DirectMedia Layer, Mesa, LibArt, FreeType, PNG, and omniORBpy to run efficiently. Overall, Fresco is an excellent choice for anyone seeking a potent distributed windowing system with cutting-edge functionalities.