Mesa 3D is acollection ofgraphicslibraries anddrivers thatimplementhardware-acceleratedOpenGL 3. Itcomes with itsown softwareemulationfallback driverthough. BesidesOpenGL andOpenGL ES, itimplementsOpenVG and EGL,but also allowsfor Direct3Dinterfaces.
Gambas is anIDE and BASICinterpreterwithobject-orientedextensions.It'sdesigned toease buildinggraphicalapplicationsprograms usingGtk+ or Qt, andruns on mostUnix and Linuxsystems. Withits runtimestandaloneapplicationscan bepackaged, evencommand-lineprograms. TheGambas3JIT-compilinginterpreteroften executesfaster thanPerl or Pythonapps. It alsosupports SDL,OpenGL andOpenAL, MySQLor PostgreSQLdatabases, CGIwebserverinterfacing,
Diodon is asimple Gnomeclipboardmanager. Itprovides appindicatorsupport. Andstrives to betightlyintegrated andeasy to use. Itstill comeswith a lot ofcustomizationand securityoptions.
gpgpwd is aterminal-basedpasswordmanager. Itstores a listof passwordsand theirassociatedusernames in aGnuPG-encryptedfile, andallows you toeasilyretrieve,change, and addto that file asneeded. Italso generatesrandompasswords whichyou can use,easily allowingyou to have one"masterpassword"(for your gpgkey), with oneunique andrandom passwordfor eachwebsite orservice youuse, ensuringthat your otheraccounts staysafe even ifone passwordgets leaked. gpgpwd can als
For people whodo not likeclassicalspreadsheets,but need anoffice tool fortables: WithDagri you canbuild up tablesand save datawithin. While aspreadsheetuses one singletable layout,Dagri can usemany tableswith differentlayouts on onesheet. And itgives you morefocus on yourdata. Theintention isnot anotherspreadsheet,but somethingnew instead: adata gridapplication.
The CommonDesktopEnvironment(CDE) was anX11/Motifdesktopenvironmentdeveloped byIBM, HP, Sun,Fujitsu andHitachi forUNIX. It wasalsocommercializedfor Linux. CDEhas become OpenSource in 2012.It comprisesfile manager,text editor,terminalemulator,agenda, emailclient andextensive help.An extension ofthe Korn Shellcan be used towrite graphicalapplications.Compared withKDE or GNOME,it uses verylittle memoryand CPU power,making itappropriate forold orlow-powered(ARM
By windowmanagers and bydesktopenvironments isirritationsolicited? Is agigabyte sizedgraphical userinterfacesoftware toolkit anunreasonablerequirement?Then xlaunchcan cure thoseblues. First agrab key orkey combinationis pressed.Next a launchkey or keycombination ispressed. Then aprogramlaunches. Anexamplefollows. By thehome as anactivation keya web browser,such asfirefox, can belaunched. Thatmakes sensesince a homepage isdisplayed. Upon xlaunchstart any
All windowdecorations areconfigurable,the basic ideais to have asmuchuser-interfacepolicy aspossiblecontrolledthrough theLisp language. Despite thisextensibilityits policy iscurrently veryminimalcompared tomost windowmanagers. Itsaim is simplyto managewindows in themost flexibleand attractivemannerpossible. Assuch it doesnot implementdesktopbackgrounds,applicationsdocks, or otherthings that maybe achievedthroughseparateapplications. All high-levelwm functio
Runner is alaunch menu forX WindowSystem. It ismeant to startfast and giveaccess to oftenused programsbut also runany command.It's alsooptimized forkeyboard usage.
Paperwork is aGUI to makepapers easilysearchableusing OCR. Thebasic ideabehindPaperwork is"scan&forget" :You should beable to justscan a newdocument andforget about ituntil the dayyou need itagain.
Arx Libertatisis across-platform,open sourceport of ArxFatalis, a 2002first-personrole-playinggame / dungeoncrawlerdeveloped byArkane Studios. Arx Fatalisfeaturescrafting, meleeand rangedcombat, as wellas a uniquecasting systemwhere theplayer drawsrunes in realtime to effectthe desiredspell. ArxLibertatisupdates andimproves ArxFatalis bysupportingmodern systems,porting thegame to newsystems as wellas eliminatingbugs andlimitations. Inthe future weplan to i
Wmconfig is atext-based menugeneration toolfor various Xwindow managersfor desktops.Toolkits likeQt or Gtk arenot required.It uses asimpleconfigurationlayout and theconfigurationmay be editedwith a texteditor.
Scrabble3D is aversatileScrabble game,that implementsa classic mode,Superscrablle,and 3D games aswell ascustomizedboards. It canbe playedagainst onlineopponents oragainst thecomputer.Letterset,board anddesign can bechanged, workswith OpenGL,provides gamestatistics,allows time ormove-limitedmatches, ismulti-lingual,and providesparentalfiltering forserver games.
Trend is ageneral-purpose,efficient trendgraph for"live"data. Data isread in ASCIIform from afile orcontinuouslyfrom a FIFO anddisplayed inreal-time intoa multi-passtrend (muchlike a CRToscilloscope).trend can beused as a rapidanalysis toolfor progressiveor time-baseddata seriestogether withtrivialscripting.
Parcellite is aX11/Gtk+clipboardmanager.It'slightweight andwith a smallmemoryfootprint, byprovidingmostly basicfunctionality.Parcellitekeeps a historyof X clipboardcontents,provides someview options,retains savedtext even afterapplicationclosure,provides asystray iconand globalhotkeys foritem access,but also allowsto definecustom commandsusing clipboardcontents.
Xaut (formerlyXautomation) isa C library anda correspondingPython moduleto automate X11mouse andkeyboard eventsor manipulatewindows anddesktopproperties. Italso providesaccess to the Xclipboards,state of num,caps and scrolllock.
lterm is a graphical terminal emulator based on vte. It's purposed as ssh client but also works locally. It contains some convenience features to ease repetitive tasks, such as bookmarks and keeping terminal sessions, a built-in sftp function, remote file editing and directory management, an expandable protocol set, a tabbed interface, customizable colors and mouse behaviour, and full screen mode.
Mesa 3D is a collection of graphics libraries and drivers that implement hardware-accelerated OpenGL 3. It comes with its own software emulation fallback driver though. Besides OpenGL and OpenGL ES, it implements OpenVG and EGL, but also allows for Direct3D interfaces.
4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (by using it as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for example, for playing video DVDs), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (meaning small Linux games).
FFmpeg is the leading framework for decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering and playing pretty much any media format. It supports widespread and standardized, proprietary and fringe file formats and encodings. It's comprised of the ffmpeg, ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe utilities. But also provides libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample for application use. Its primary development attention is on security.
Gambas is an IDE and BASIC interpreter with object-oriented extensions. It's designed to ease building graphical applications programs using Gtk+ or Qt, and runs on most Unix and Linux systems. With its runtime standalone applications can be packaged, even command-line programs. The Gambas3 JIT-compiling interpreter often executes faster than Perl or Python apps. It also supports SDL, OpenGL and OpenAL, MySQL or PostgreSQL databases, CGI webserver interfacing,
Diodon is a simple Gnome clipboard manager. It provides app indicator support. And strives to be tightly integrated and easy to use. It still comes with a lot of customization and security options.
Cinnamon is a traditional graphical desktop for BSD/Linux and X11, derived from GNOME. It extends the Shell with a panel styled after GNOME 2, but adds more recent functionality, backend and application bindings. It provides MDM, a login manager, networking and bluetooth applets, virtual workspaces, theming, desktop icons, portable keybindings, Qt-theme bridging, visual effects, and a configuration center. It's the default desktop environment for Linux Mint, but packaged for many other distri
Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine for Object Pascal. Extensible system of 3D objects, with out-of-the-box levels, items, intelligent creatures and more. Rendering and processing of 3D models in X3D, VRML, Collada and other formats. Latest graphic effects including shadows, shaders, mirrors, screen effects. Animation, collision detection, 3D sound.
Xfdesktop manages the root window for the XFCE4 desktop environment. It basically displays the background, shows desktop icons, implements the virtual desktop switching, and the root context and application menu.
The Linux Wacom project is comprised of hardware drivers, libraries and documentation for Wacom tablets. It can configure devices, and interfaces with X11 under Linux, or graphics applications; usually provides out-of-the-box support on most distributions. Supported devices include the Wacom series Intuos, Cintiq, TabletPC, Graphire, Intuos Pro, Volito, PenPartner, PL & DTF , Bamboo, Bamboo Pen & Touch, and Graphire Bluetooth.
gpgpwd is a terminal-based password manager. It stores a list of passwords and their associated usernames in a GnuPG-encrypted file, and allows you to easily retrieve, change, and add to that file as needed. It also generates random passwords which you can use, easily allowing you to have one "master password" (for your gpg key), with one unique and random password for each website or service you use, ensuring that your other accounts stay safe even if one password gets leaked. gpgpwd can als
For people who do not like classical spreadsheets, but need an office tool for tables: With Dagri you can build up tables and save data within. While a spreadsheet uses one single table layout, Dagri can use many tables with different layouts on one sheet. And it gives you more focus on your data. The intention is not another spreadsheet, but something new instead: a data grid application.
A greeter for LightDM developed by the Antergos Linux Project. The greeter provides a JavaScript API making it easy to create custom login screens.
Graphical counterpart to tabview, a simple tabular data viewer that can be used both stand-alone and as a Python module for various files and Python/Pandas/NumPy data structures.
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) was an X11/Motif desktop environment developed by IBM, HP, Sun, Fujitsu and Hitachi for UNIX. It was also commercialized for Linux. CDE has become Open Source in 2012. It comprises file manager, text editor, terminal emulator, agenda, email client and extensive help. An extension of the Korn Shell can be used to write graphical applications. Compared with KDE or GNOME, it uses very little memory and CPU power, making it appropriate for old or low-powered (ARM
SDL_bgi is a graphics library based on SDL2. SDL_bgi is nearly fully compatible with BGI (graphics.h), the Borland Graphics Interface that was the de-facto standard in PC graphics back in DOS days. It's very easy to use, pretty fast, and it also provides extensions for ARGB colours, mouse support, and turtle graphics. It should run on any platform supported by SDL2.
FLTK (fulltick) is a lean but modern GUI toolkit written in C++ with bindings for Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua and Tcl. It's usable and looks alike on all platforms, provides full internationalization, 3D rendering via OpenGL and an internal GLUT backend, static linking, does not require macros or preprocDessing, still comes with a solid set of widgets, and its GUI designer FLUID.
By window managers and by desktop environments is irritation solicited? Is a gigabyte sized graphical user interface software tool kit an unreasonable requirement? Then xlaunch can cure those blues. First a grab key or key combination is pressed. Next a launch key or key combination is pressed. Then a program launches. An example follows. By the home as an activation key a web browser, such as firefox, can be launched. That makes sense since a home page is displayed. Upon xlaunch start any
Font Manager is an end-user oriented GUI to manage desktop fonts. It abstracts command line tools (fc-cache) away behind a pretty font preview browser and simple drag'n'drop installation method. It can also disable/enable fonts, collections, monitor directories, or add new sources. Recent versions are implemented in Vala and Gtk.
mlterm provides a X11 terminal emulator with extensive support for internationalization, different character sets and encodings, or input methods. Fonts are rendered anti-aliased through FreeType, one instance can manage multiple windows, it has a scrollbar API, mouse wheel support, automatic encoding detection, and a daemon mode. Binaries for Windows and Java are also available.
All window decorations are configurable, the basic idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible controlled through the Lisp language. Despite this extensibility its policy is currently very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. As such it does not implement desktop backgrounds, applications docks, or other things that may be achieved through separate applications. All high-level wm functio
Runner is a launch menu for X Window System. It is meant to start fast and give access to often used programs but also run any command. It's also optimized for keyboard usage.
Worker is a file manager for X11 with a classical two-panel and tabbed interface. It features an accessible configuration menu, binding external programs to hotkeys or menu buttons, and configurable commands per filetype. It can obviously edit, copy, rename files, directories and symlinks, set permissions, filtering, can also access virtual file systems (zip/tar/archive browsing, ftp access), includes a text viewer, search functionality, directory bookmarks, and media mounting.
Worker is a file manager for X11 with a classical two-panel and tabbed interface. It features an accessible configuration menu, binding external programs to hotkeys or menu buttons, and configurable commands per filetype. It can obviously edit, copy, rename files, directories and symlinks, set permissions, filtering, can also access virtual file systems (zip/tar/archive browsing, ftp access), includes a text viewer, search functionality, directory bookmarks, and media mounting.
Utility for incremental case insensitive search through all window titles on all workspaces and then switch to selected window.
SDL Sopwith is a port of the classic 8086 biplane shoot-em-up game to modern computers.
Atanks is a multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the Worms series of games. Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition.
Paperwork is a GUI to make papers easily searchable using OCR. The basic idea behind Paperwork is "scan & forget" : You should be able to just scan a new document and forget about it until the day you need it again.
XDecorations provides a few eye candy gimmicks for X11 desktops (similar to xsnow or xpenguins). It includes Halloween and Xmas holiday themes; lights, trees, snowmen, pumpkins, witches, flying sleighs, and autumn leaves. All objects are freely positionable per configuration file.
Arx Libertatis is a cross-platform, open source port of Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game / dungeon crawler developed by Arkane Studios. Arx Fatalis features crafting, melee and ranged combat, as well as a unique casting system where the player draws runes in real time to effect the desired spell. Arx Libertatis updates and improves Arx Fatalis by supporting modern systems, porting the game to new systems as well as eliminating bugs and limitations. In the future we plan to i
A service and API for using OpenGL through a socket.
pk-update-icon displays notifications and an icon in the tray area of the panel when package updates are available.
The xwrited utility displays write(1) and wall(1) messages as desktop notifications. A notification daemon compliant to the freedesktop.org Desktop Notification Specification draft needs to be running in order to display the notifications.
DisPlex is an AppIndicator for graphics card settings and an interface to Disper (display switching for nVidia and XRandR). It can change screen rotation, configure multi-monitor settings, run xkill, hide desktop icons, engage the screensaver, set desktop/appearance and Compiz options.
FontForge is a powerful outline font editor supporting many font formats (SFD, UFO, TTF, TTC, OTF, PS1, TeX, X11 OTB, BDF, FON, FNT, WOFF and SVG). It provides scripting and Python bindings to automate some tasks and conversions, even some command-line utilization, OpenType feature specs, mathematical typesetting extensions, utilize FreeType, Cairo and Pango for anti-aliased rendering, or Potrace/Autotrace for bitmap vectorization. It runs on Linux, MacOS X, and Windows. FontForge is mostly 3-cl
Xfce is a desktop environment for X11 and Unix-like systems. It's comparatively lightweight and low on system resources, yet provides a modern and customizable interface. It includes a window manager, a panel and taskbar, file management, system and desktop setting tools, power management, intuitive virtual desktop switching, and a media player amongst other features.
The X.org server is an open source implementation of the networked X11 Window System. It's the current base of most graphical user interfaces on BSD and Linux systems. Its modular architecture allows running on many different hardware types and settings.
LightDM is display and login manager for X11/Mir. It's rather lean, integrates with ConsoleKit, PAM or logind. It provides greeter frontends for Gtk, Qt, KDE and a WebKit UI. It also provides remote session (XDMCP, VNC, RDP) connectors.
Wmconfig is a text-based menu generation tool for various X window managers for desktops. Toolkits like Qt or Gtk are not required. It uses a simple configuration layout and the configuration may be edited with a text editor.
KKEdit is a programmers editor using the Gtk toolkit in the style of Mac BBEdit. It's not an IDE, but provides slightly more coding functionality than other text editors; syntax highlighting, function outlines/jumping, external tool and binding and an inline-shell, remote editing, manual viewing, and remembers editing sessions. KKEdit uses non-flat tabs and icons per default.
bEngine is a game engine for browser-based and 3D/OpenGL graphics rendering. It provides for space ships, buildings and terrains, transportation and resource aquisition features, but can be extended with additional modules.
Thinstation is a small Linux distribution for basix x86 hardware that provides thin client setups, suitable for school setups. It provides connectivity for RDP and VNC connections, works as Citrix/ICA client, standard X11, NoMachine NX, Windows RDP, tb5250, Tarantella, VMS terminal, or just SSH/telnet client. It allows network booting via PXE, syslinux, CD-ROM, or flash/USB installations.
LXC Facility (LXCF) can generate full operating system containers to be used as LXC virtual environment. It's based on libvirt-lxc, a console is available through virt-manager, can build containers in just a few minutes, manage multiple of them, allows dynamic resource control, and reuse available host applications. LXCF already supports Ubuntu 14.04/14.10, Fedora 19/20, and CentOS/RHEL 7.
UltraGrid is a software for video transmission over networks in high quality but with low latency (as low as 83ms). It allows high-definition streams (PAL/NTSC, HD, 2K, 2160p, iHDTV, QuadHD, SuperHD, 4K video). It supports SAGE, OpenGL and SDL displays, DXT-compression per GLSL, JPEG compression via CUDA, permits to utilize HDMI and HD-SDI cards, system audio or JACK sinks, and even provides 3D support.
Scrabble3D is a versatile Scrabble game, that implements a classic mode, Superscrablle, and 3D games as well as customized boards. It can be played against online opponents or against the computer. Letterset, board and design can be changed, works with OpenGL, provides game statistics, allows time or move-limited matches, is multi-lingual, and provides parental filtering for server games.
WMND is a dockapp for monitoring network interfaces under WindowMaker and other compatible window managers. WMND can monitor multiple interfaces at the same time, sports several display modes and can also monitor remote interfaces through SNMP.
Drumstick Metronome (kmetronome) is a MIDI-based metronome utilizing the ALSA sequencer. It's intended for students and musicans to aid rythm consistency while playing instruments. It incurs little overhead by using MIDI instead of digital audio playback, which also keeps the timing more accurate.
Ctalk is an object oriented extension to C which adds features like objects, classes, and methods. There are primitive objects for integers, floats, but also for data/time handling, complex collection types for lists, arrays and dictionaries, or system events like SignalEvents and user InputEvents, and graphics objects like Panes, X11Bitmaps, X11Cursors, and X11Fonts.
delta3d is a game and simulation engine. It integrates Open Scene Graph, Open Dynamics Engine, Character Animation Library, OpenAL, and Qt in an easy to use API.
Trend is a general-purpose, efficient trend graph for "live" data. Data is read in ASCII form from a file or continuously from a FIFO and displayed in real-time into a multi-pass trend (much like a CRT oscilloscope). trend can be used as a rapid analysis tool for progressive or time-based data series together with trivial scripting.
Parcellite is a X11/Gtk+ clipboard manager. It's lightweight and with a small memory footprint, by providing mostly basic functionality. Parcellite keeps a history of X clipboard contents, provides some view options, retains saved text even after application closure, provides a systray icon and global hotkeys for item access, but also allows to define custom commands using clipboard contents.
SkyChart draws an observable night sky of stars and nebulas from its catalog. It can also note the position of planets, comets or asteroids. Many parameters allow automatic catalog selection, adapting colorization and dimensions, or the labels for non-star objects.
Xaut (formerly Xautomation) is a C library and a corresponding Python module to automate X11 mouse and keyboard events or manipulate windows and desktop properties. It also provides access to the X clipboards, state of num, caps and scroll lock.
Joy of text is text editor, which includes a powerful ECCE-like scripting language for system tool integration and reusing any machine-readable input. It recovers easily from crashes, can interface with helper and utility applications, provides many default library commands, macro-scriptability, debugging, includes spell checking, binary conversion routines (for office documents or pdf files), enables tabular text editing, and can deal well with larger file sizes.
Xjadeo is a software video player that displays a video-clip in sync with an external time source (MTC, LTC, JACK-transport). Xjadeo is useful in soundtrack composition, video monitoring or any task that requires to synchronizing movie frames with external events.