Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with
extensive standards support.
Openbox lets you bring the latest applications outside of a full desktop
environment. Most modern applications have been written with GNOME and KDE
in mind. With support for the latest freedesktop.org standards, as well as
careful adherence to previous standards, Openbox provides an environment
where applications work the way they were designed to.
Openbox is a highly configurable window manager. It allows you to change
almost every aspect of how you interact with your desktop and invent
completely new ways to use and control it. It can be like a video game for
controlling windows. But Openbox can also be kept extremely simple, as it is
in the default setup, meaning that it can suit just about anybody. Openbox
gives you control without making you do everything.
Openbox makes desktop environments better. By running Openbox inside the
GNOME or K desktop environments, you can combine their ease and
functionality with the power of Openbox. Your desktop becomes cleaner and
faster, and is in your control, when you use Openbox.
wmx is another window manager for X. It is based on wm2 and provides
a similarly unusual style of window decoration; but in place of wm2's
minimal functionality, it offers many of the features of more
conventional managers, often in the most simplistic implementations
imaginable. wmx is, however, still not configurable except by editing
the source and recompiling the code.
IMWheel translates mouse wheel activity into keycodes for X11 applications,
using a configuration file that allows per-user translation preferences.
For more information on setting up your wheeled mouse to work with X, see
either the imwheel man page or the FreeBSD FAQ.
Xfdashboard provides a GNOME shell dashboard like interface for use with
the Xfce desktop. It can be configured to run any keyboard shortcut and
when executed provides an overview of applications currently open enabling
the user to switch between different applications.
LXRandR is the standard screen manager of LXDE. It manages screen
resolution and external monitors. You can plug in another screen
into LXDE or choose to use a big screen projector. Local screen and
extenal screen can be used at the same time. LXRandR configures the
screen solution automatically.
The `nvidia-settings` utility is a tool for configuring the NVIDIA
XFree86/X.org graphics driver. It operates by communicating with the NVIDIA
X driver, querying and updating state as appropriate. This
communication is done with the NV-CONTROL X extension.
Values such as brightness and gamma, XVideo attributes, temperature,
and OpenGL settings can be queried and configured via nvidia-settings.
libsynaptics is a library to access the Xorg/XFree86 Synaptics TouchPad
Driver. Programs that want to access the touchpad should make use of this
library and will thereby not interfere with each other. Available parameters
can be read and written and the version of the installed driver can be
determined.
rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt, modified
to store text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4) and to use locale-correct
input and output. It also supports mixing multiple fonts at the same time,
including Xft fonts.
SLiM is a desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11, derived from
Login.app by Per Liden.
It aims to be light and simple, although completely configurable through
themes and an option file; is suitable for machines on which remote login
functionalities are not needed.
Simple pointer warp is a generic pointer warping utility for X11.
It allows you to place the pointer to arbitrary x/y coordinates,
for instance from within scripts. It is especially useful in
conjunction with scripted window managers such as wmii.