aterm is a color vt102 terminal emulator, based on rxvt 2.4.8 with
additions for fast transparency.
It was created with AfterStep users in mind, but is not tied to any
libraries, and can be used anywhere.
realtime sky drawer for X root window
options:
-refresh <seconds>
-verbose
-locate [NS]<degrees>/[EW]<degrees>
-width <degrees>
-center <degrees>
-horizon <dots>
-vcell <dots>
-hcell <dots>
-lesscolor
-cloudy
For example:
xskyroot -width 36 -center 270
BBDock is an application launcher for Blackbox-like window managers that
allows one to create application buttons in the slit/dock. It works with
PNG files rather than XPM images, and supports alpha blending at 16, 24,
and 32 bits color-depth. Also, the raise-window function is available to
window managers which implement the EWMH specification.
The sbxkb program is modernized replacement for classic xxkb. It is not
as configurable, but avoids few very annoying bugs of xxkb (i.e. it just
works). Comes with 224 national flag icons.
DeCurs is a GTK+ based program that lets you edit you X11 mouse cursors.
It reads them from BDF-formatted font files. Now don't worry, it comes
with one handy.
This program allows you to change some of xterm's display settings
dynamically. Most of the option names are the same as those found in
xterm; see the man page for details.
This utility notably decreases the startup time of your X sessions, provided
that you start a number of X clients automatically during the X session startup.
Most people, for instance, start X clients like xterm, xclock, xconsole and
xosview from their .xinitrc, .openwin-init, .xtoolplaces or .xsession file.
These X clients are started simultaneously (in the background) which puts a
high load on the X server and the OS:
* The X server is not multi-threaded, so all X clients are competing to get
access to the X server and to use its resources, which causes a lot of
overhead (= delay).
* The performance of other (non X related) tasks served by the system degrades
badly due to the high load.
If the system has not enough RAM to hold all the X clients, it is swapping
heavily, resulting again in a lot of delay.
On the Sun platform there is a utility called 'toolwait' which solves these
problems: it starts one X client in the background, waits until it has mapped
a window and then exits.
Xtoolwait is a free implementation of exactly the same idea.
magnify, rotate, mirror the image on the X screen
Gromit (GRaphics Over MIscellaneous Things) is a small tool to make
annotations on the screen.
When making presentations of the Gimp I found myself often moving the
mousepointer around the point of interest until hopefully everybody
noticed it. This annoyed me, since it is a very vague way to highlight
something. I dreamt of a small programm which allows me to simply draw
on the screen, ignoring any window-borders.
GS Krab is a framework and a daemon to enable GNUstep applications to
handle the special keys on multimedia keyboards. Since this would require
special hacks to work on different platform, and since those differents
platforms work differently, I thought putting those hacks together in a
centralized daemon would be the correct and clean way to do things.
LICENSE: GPL2 or later