Bloglines Notifier is a Gnome panel applet that monitors a Bloglines account and displays an alert when there new items. When there are new items the applet displays a tooltip with the count of unread items. Also one can double click on the applet in order to launch a web browser and point it...

3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program for switching virtual desktops in a seamless 3-dimensional manner on Linux. The current desktop is mapped into a fullscreen 3D environment where you may choose other screens. Several different visualization modes are available. The transition from working desktop...

Open Partly Copied is a service menu (+ shell-script included) allows by one-click start copying video file from remote storage to local directory and immediately open partially copied file with your default player. Its necessary if movie plays with delays on direct opening. After watching...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Copied, Desktop Environment, File, Open, Open Partly Copied, Partly, Remote, Remote Storage, Service Menu, Tools, Video, Video File

TVSpectre reads the TV programme information provided by tvmovie.de. Its GUI resembles that of the free, closed source Windows client TVGhost. Installation: - Create the directory "data" unter the installation directory. - Modify TVSpectre.pm to find these directories. - If the included...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Desktop Environment, Directory, Information, Programme, Provided, Reads, Tools, Tv Programme, Tvspectre

Xfce 4 Weather Plugin shows the current temperature and weather condition, using weather data provided by xoap.weather.com. Usage: To find your location code: - Go to www.weather.com - Do a search for the area you want to have data for - If you get a match, your location code is in the...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Condition, Data, Desktop Environment, Plugin, Tools, Weather, Weather Condition, Weather Data, Xfce

gdcalc project is a financial, statistics, scientific and programmers calculator for Unix and Linux with both RPN and algebraic modes. The GUI was written with glade and uses the Gnome/Gtk+ toolkit - so it may well be compatible with themes and other whiz-bang features of those systems....


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Algebraic, Desktop Environment, For Unix, Gdcalc, Linux, Programmers, Programmers Calculator, Rpn, Scientific, Statistics, Tools, Unix

blah project consists of a utility for maintaining a list of frequently copy-and-pasted text. When an item is selected from the menu the corresponding text is automatically placed into the clipboard. You can then use the paste feature in another application to transfer the text. The current...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Blah, Consists, Desktop Environment, Frequently, List Of, Maintaining, Project, Tools, Utility

BitRock Installbuilder allows you to create easy to use multiplatform installers for Linux, Solaris and Windows. BitRock installers are native binaries that can run on Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Solaris and on virtually any Linux distribution. The generated installers provide native look...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Bitrock, Easy To, Easy To Use, For Linux, Functionality, Gui, Installation, Installbuilder, Installers, Linux, Run On, Solaris, Tools, Windows

openSUSE KDE Tweaks are actually KDE 3.5.5 (openSUSE 10.2) patches and two RPM tools through which I have added, modified and removed some features. I like and dislike the new kickoff menu at the same time, so I decided to change everything about it that I dont like. Although my patches were...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Kde, Kde Tweaks, Menu, Opensuse, Opensuse Kde, Order, Order Of, Rpm, Tools, Tweaks, Used

Byzanz can record your desktop session to a GIF file. Byzanz is a GNOME Panel applet to record your current desktop to an animated GIF file. This is especially useful for publishing on the web, since every browser understands the GIF format. Use this for your secreencasts!.


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Byzanz, Desktop, Desktop Environment, Desktop Session, Gif, Record, Session, Tools

keyspeedapplet project is a panel applet to show the speed you are typing. This is an Applet, similar to the applets, showing the cpu-speed, which shows the speed you are currently typing. It shows the average speed of the last 15 seconds and the average speed of the last minute. In...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Applet, Desktop Environment, Keyspeedapplet, Panel, Project, Show, Speed, Tools

ColdSpot is an X screen locker. When the mouse is left inside the transparent ColdSpot window, a user-specified program is kicked off to lock the screen. It is probably simplest to use with focus follows mouse or sloppy focus, although it should still work with click-to-focus. Whats New in...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Coldspot, Desktop Environment, Screen, Tools

wmcapshare is a dockapp to control and manage the HP Capshare Information Appliance. The goal is to provide a linux replacement for the CapShares own application which HP has seen fit to discontinue. Why I got sick of having to deal with the openobex sample application as my only interface...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Control, Desktop Environment, Dockapp, Hp, Hp Capshare Information Appliance, Information, Manage, Tools, Wmcapshare

Docker is a docking application (WindowMaker dock app) which acts as a system tray for KDE and GNOME2. Docker can be used to replace the panel in either environment, allowing you to have a system tray w ithout running the KDE/GNOME panel or environment. I wrote and designed Docker to work with...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Application, Dock, Dock App, Docker, Docking, Kde, System, System Tray, Tools, Tray, Window Manager, Windowmaker

WMcp is a simple dockable pager for use in Window Maker. Installation: Unzip the file: gunzip wmcp-1.2.8.tar.gz Untar the file: tar xvf wmcp-1.2.8.tar CD to src dir: cd wmcp-1.2.8 do one of these makes: make -- make wmcp using the default button scheme (scalpel) make scalpel -- make...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Buttons, Default, Desktop Environment, Dockable, Pager, Simple, Tools, Window, Window Maker, Wmcp

Better Weather contains a couple of scripts using normal KDE and Linux tools to provide better display of weather info than KDEs weather applet. It downloads the information from the US national weather service and maps from weather.com. Two launchers on the main menubar bring up the window...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Better, Better Weather, Desktop Environment, Display, Kde, Linux Tools, Script, Scripts, Tools, Using, Weather

JavaDesktopEngines aim is to produce a piece of software that is at the same time: Shared virtual machine It allows to launch different java programs inside the same VM. The VM will always be alive, so no more startup overhead and less memory used. It uses our JDSVM(Java Desktop Shared...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Desktop Environment, Engine, Java, Java Engine, Javadesktopengine, Jde, Launch, Process, Rpc, Services, Simple, Tools, Vm, Xml

Edit with gvim - with GVIM serverlist is a "Edit with gvim" context menu in Konqueror. Has support for gvims serverlist. This lets you open a file into any already running gvim instance. This is something I saw in Windows Explorer when I was using gvim there. After using it I couldnt believe I...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Context, Context Menu, Desktop Environment, Edit, Gvim, Menu, Serverlist, Tools

Sunbeam and moonshine are a KDE kicker panel applet and application pair that are intended to be used (together or in isolation) as an alternative to the current kicker panel. Apart from this, the functionality of the software has been somewhat extended to enable features like file and...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Alpha, Application, Desktop Environment, Kde, Kicker, Moonshine, Sunbeam, Tools

Toyd is an advanced next-generation Window Manager. Toyd is built on top of Aoof-Wm, an Advanced Object Oriented Framework designed specifically for the development of portable Window Management systems..


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Advanced, Desktop Environment, Manager, Next-generation, Toyd, Window, Window Manager, Window Managers