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.
xmotd is a message-of-the-day browser for X11 and dumb-terminals, that
can also be used to broadcast messages to users logged in across a
network. xmotd periodically checks whether a file has been modified
and pops up and displays the contents of the file, if it has.
"Gem Drop X" is an interesting one-player puzzle game using the
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) libraries.
It is a direct port of "Gem Drop," an Atari 8-bit game written in Action!
(a very fast C- and Pascal-like compiled language for the Atari).
It was originally ported to X11, using SDL for sound and music.
Eventually, the Xlib graphics calls were removed and replaced with
SDL calls.
The concept of the game "Gem Drop" is based on an arcade game for the
NeoGeo system called "Magical Drop III" by SNK.
If you're familiar with games like Jewels, Klax, Bust-A-Move or Tetris,
this game is similar to them all. I consider it closest to Klax.
Some people have compared it to "Tetris meets Space Invaders."
This is a little hack I wrote to help in setting up new Type 1 PostScript
fonts for use with X. It automatically constructs the fonts.scale file which
X uses to identify fonts in can use the current directory. Previously you
had to write this file by hand which is unacceptable if you have lots of
fonts.
The program can also generate Fontmap entries for Ghostscript (which can
then be put in the global Fontmap to speed up startup times) and it can
produce font sample sheets as well.
Please be warned that this is beta quality software and has limitations. I
think you will, however, find it useful and the bugs will go away over time
if people help me with it.
Reports of success or otherwise welcomed at the address below.
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James Macnicol (J.Macnicol@student.anu.edu.au)
XView (X Window-System-based Visual/Integrated Environment for Workstations)
is a user-interface toolkit to support interactive, graphics-based
applications running under the X Window System. XView provides a set of
pre-built, user-interface objects such as canvases, scrollbars, menus, and
control panels. The appearance and functionality of these objects follow
the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface (GUI) specification. XView features
an object-oriented style Application Programmer's Interface (API) that is
straightforward and easy to learn.
This package contains all the configurations files needed for use of
the XView libraries and applications.
This package contains the libraries, headers and support files
necessary to build XView applications.
Source Notes
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This version of the XView source corresponds to that provided with
OpenWindows Version 3.2 from SunSoft Inc. Libraries generated with this
source should be interchangeable with those from the OpenWindows Version 3.2
release.
Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11. Gestures or
strokes are movements that you make with your mouse (or your pen,
finger etc.) while holding down a specific mouse button. Easystroke
will execute certain actions if it recognizes the stroke; currently
easystroke can emulate key presses, execute shell commands, hold down
modifiers and emulate a scroll wheel. The program was designed with
Tablet PCs in mind and can be used effectively even without access to
a keyboard.
The xcalendar is a simple interactive calendar program with a notebook
capability. It is built on the X Toolkit and the Athena Widgets.
Just type `xcalendar [month [year]]' on command line.
If month and year are not provided on the command line they are
assumed to be current.
Note: This program is internationalized but only
app-defaults files for English (C) and Japanese (ja_JP.eucJP) are included.
Let's add another locales!
"Another Easy Editor"
An easy to use text editor intended to be usable with little or no
instruction. Provides a full-screen text interface via curses (aee)
as well as a graphical user interface under X windows (xae).
Features include pop-up menus, cut-and-paste, journaling, and
multiple edit buffers.
aee is a superset of the "Easy Editor" (ee) that is part of the
FreeBSD base system.
3D Pong is an X Window game for 1 or 2 players. It's a 3D game based
on the first arcade game, "Pong." Like "Pong," it's a game played with
a ball and paddles. The object is to hit the ball and get it in the
other player's goal. Use your paddle to deflect the ball and keep it
from getting in your goal.
XBlast is a multi-player arcade game for X11. The game
can be played with at least two players and up to six
players. It was inspired by the video/computer game
Bomberman(Dynablaster), which was to my knowledge first
programmed for NEC's PC Engine/Turbo Grafx. Other (com-
mercial) versions of the original game exist for IBM-PC,
Atari ST, Amiga, NES, GameBoy and Super NES.