Spectrwm (previously known as scrotwm) is a small dynamic tiling window
manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen
real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane
defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any
configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be
small, compact and fast.
It was largely inspired by xmonad and dwm. Both are fine products but suffer
from things like: crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults,
asymmetrical window layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH.
Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code was
borrowed from it. On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings
and xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C.
xclip is a command line utility that is designed to run on any system with an
X11 implementation. It provides an interface to X selections ("the clipboard")
from the command line. It can read data from standard in or a file and place it
in an X selection for pasting into other X applications. xclip can also print
an X selection to standard out, which can then be redirected to a file or
another program.
FEATURES
========
* Reads data piped to standard in or files given as arguments
* Prints contents of selection to standard out
* Accesses the XA_PRIMARY, XA_SECONDARY or XA_CLIPBOARD selection
* Supports the INCR mechanism for large transfers
* Connects to the X display in $DISPLAY, or specified with -display host:0
* Waits for selection requests in the background
xlock locks the X server till the user enters their pass-
word at the keyboard. While xlock is running, all new
server connections are refused. The screen saver is disabled.
The mouse cursor is turned off. The screen is blanked and a
changing pattern is put on the screen. If a key or a mouse
button is pressed then the user is prompted for the password
of the user who started xlock.
If the correct password is typed, then the screen is
unlocked and the X server is restored. When typing the
password Control-U and Control-H are active as kill and
erase respectively. To return to the locked screen, click
in the small icon version of the changing pattern.
This module is designed to provide an extremely lightweight way to parse
moderately complex configuration files. As such, it exports a single
function - fastconfig() - and does not provide any OO access methods.
Still, it is fairly full-featured.
Here's how it works:
%cf = fastconfig($file, $delim);
Basically, the fastconfig() function returns a hash of keys and values
based on the directives in your configuration file. By default, directives
and values are separated by whitespace in the config file, but this can be
easily changed with the delimiter argument (see below).
When the configuration file is read, its modification time is first
checked and the results cached. On each call to fastconfig(), if the
config file has been changed, then the file is reread. Otherwise, the
cached results are returned automatically. This makes this module great
for mod_perl modules and scripts, one of the primary reasons I wrote it.
Simply include this at the top of your script or inside of your
constructor function:
my %cf = fastconfig('/path/to/config/file.conf');
If the file argument is omitted, then fastconfig() looks for a file named
$0.conf in the ../etc directory relative to the executable. For example,
if you ran:
/usr/local/bin/myapp
Then fastconfig() will automatically look for:
/usr/local/etc/myapp.conf
This is great if you're really lazy and always in a hurry, like I am.
If this doesn't work for you, simply supply a filename manually. Note that
filename generation does not work in mod_perl, so you'll need to supply a
filename manually.
Hastymail2 is a full featured IMAP/SMTP client written in PHP. Our goal is to
create a fast, secure, compliant web mail client that has great usability.
Hastymail2 is much more lightweight than most popular web based mail
applications but still maintains a competitive feature set. The project
originated as Hastymail in 2002, then was nearly completely rewritten as
Hastymail2 starting in January of 2008. We are very near our first stable
release of the second generation of Hastymail and development continues to be
active.
Features:
* Compatible with PDAs, phones, text browsers, and all mainstream browsers
* W3C valid UTF-8 XHTML pages that can be configured to be delivered as type
application/xhtml-xml for supported browsers
* Multilevel theme system using CSS, PHP templates, and icon sets
* The ability to use a database for storing user settings, contacts, and
plugin data, with support for both Postgresql and Mysql
* Flexible and powerful plugin system with documentation, examples, and many
plugins like a calendar, auto complete, sound notifications, HTML mail
composition, and more
* Tunable smart cache to balance IMAP activity and PHP session size to
maximize performance for different configurations
* AJAX updating using a lightweight and simple system
* Small page sizes to minimize load time and bandwidth use. Average page
sizes including javascript with AJAX updating, CSS, and images is less
than 100K without compression or caching, 50K when using gzip compression,
and less than 20K when using gzip and normal browser caching
* Multiple interface languages and enhanced message character set handling
* Custom built RFC compliant IMAP class that handles all IMAP communications
* No special PHP requirements, compatible with PHP4 and PHP5
* Advanced IMAP search capabilities
* Vcard based contact management including import/export ability
* IMAP SSL and STARTTLS* support
* Flexible sessions including support for cookie-less sessions and random
session ids*
* Tons more!
EFlite is a speech server for Emacspeak and other screen readers that allows
them to interface with Festival Lite, a free text-to-speech engine developed at
the CMU Speech Center as an off-shoot of Festival. EFlite is still in beta,
but I have been using it successfully with Yasr to get speech on my notebook
under Linux without having to lug my Speak-out around. It uses Festival Lite's
code to interface with the sound driver and, therefore, should work with some
versions of ALSA, but I have only tested it with the OSS sound drivers so far.
Michael P. Gorse
mgorse@alum.wpi.edu
mgorse@users.sf.net
Sometimes, when you run 2 different .ZIP programs on the same data
(PKZIP & KZIP for example), some files get compressed better in one
program, while other files get compressed better in the other.
ZIPMIX will take the best files from each one and create a new
output file, which is guaranteed to be equal to or smaller in size
to both of the input files.
ZIPMIX can also be used to perform boolean operations on ZIP files,
such as merging 2 ZIP files together, or updating a new file (with
some tricks).
Zutils is a collection of utilities able to deal with any combination
of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. If any given
file, including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed
content is used. Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no
temporary files are created.
The provided utilities are:
Zcat - Decompresses and copies files to standard output.
Zcmp - Decompresses and compares two files byte by byte.
Zdiff - Decompresses and compares two files line by line.
Zgrep - Decompresses and searches files for a regular expression.
Ztest - Tests integrity of compressed files.
Zupdate - Recompresses files to lzip format.
The supported compressors are bzip2, gzip, lzip, and xz.
PyEphem provides scientific-grade astronomical computations for the Python
programming language. Given a date and location on the Earth's surface, it can
compute the positions of the Sun and Moon, of the planets and their moons, and
of any asteroids, comets, or earth satellites whose orbital elements the user
can provide. Additional functions are provided to compute the angular
separation between two objects in the sky, to determine the constellation in
which an object lies, and to find the times at which an object rises, transits,
and sets on a particular day.
xeartk is a tkgeomap application that uses the geomap::wdgeomap command
to create an interactive map. The geographic data is from the xearth
root window program. by Kirk Lauritz Johnson in an interactive widget.
xeartk is not part of and does not require xearth. It only uses the
outline data defined in file mapdata.c of the xearth source
distribution. The cities are from factmonster.
Adjust the map view by Shift-Double-Clicking or Shift-Dragging. Double
click a dot to display information about the city there on the terminal.