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CliMsg
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Xfce4-Composite-Editor
Xfce4-Theme-Manager
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( The gtk versions are no longer under active development, please
use the QT version which is ).
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Climsg
Climsg is a simple inter-process communication program, mostly
designed for scripts that don't usually have such a thing.
Messages can be sent, received, repeated or flushed from the
queue, the message system is handled by the kernel, so any modern
kernel should be fine, if you have compiled your own kernel you
may have to 'opt in' the message system.
Messages can use the default 'key' or can specify a custom 'key'
allowing for semi-private communications, also message 'types' can
be used, a type is any integer > 0, only messages of the
correct type will be peeled of from the queue and printed to
stdout, type 0 is a special case and is use to receive any message
regardless of 'type' of course the 'key' must match as well.
Because the messages are handled by the kernel, messages can be
passed to and received back from a chroot environment.
Queues are FIFO and LOCAL only.
A simple demo script is included in the source package.
To install just extract the source CD into it an do make;sudo make
install.
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FBPic
A simple command line
application to display a ppm image on the linux console.
To install repeat the linux mantra "make;sudo make install"
To display the image
/fancyboot/images/main.ppm on the console:
cat
/fancyboot/images/main.ppm|fbpic
To scale and display a jpg on the console via Imagemagik:
convert
/fancyboot/images/ntpd.png -scale 1024x768! ppm:-|fbpic
Simple one line console slideshow, change "scale" to your frame
buffer resolution:
setterm -cursor off;find
/path/to/pics/*.jpg|while read;do convert -scale 1024x768!
ppm:-|fbpic;sleep 2;done;setterm -cursor on
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Xfce4-Composite-Editor
I wrote this simple GUI to control the various Xfce4
WM tweaks that are not available via the "Window Manager
Tweaks" control panel.
These settings are available
via the xconf settings editor but that is one of the most
awkward GUI's I have ever used as you have to select the
xfwm4 channel, expand the tree, scroll to the option you want,
select it, click edit, change the setting and click save, then
the tree gets collapsed and you have to start again!
So this nice simple GUI to
control the composite manager, the settings are self
explanatory.
This is an updated version and all controls are now 'Live',
but should you need to you can restart Xfwm4 manually, this
version no longer needs gtkdialog as its a 'proper' c
application.
DEPENDENCIES:
gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24.0
libxfce4ui-1 >= 4.8.0
libxfconf-0 >= 4.8.1
INSTALL:
(The linux mantra:)
./configure
make
sudo make install
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Xfce-Theme-Manager
Having switched to Xfce from gnome one of the main
annoyances I have found is having multiple settings GUI's for
setting the theme, one for the window border and one for the
controls/icons and neither include thumbnails!
As I like to switch themes and mix and match this soon became VERY
irritating hence this application, as you can see from the
screenshots only one GUI is used to set all the bits of a theme,
the "Themes" tab contains themes that have an integrated window
border/control theme ( and if there is a gnome-like theme.index
file that specifies an icon set this will be used as well ),
everything is fairly self explanatory, just click on a thumbnail
to set a particular theme/window border/control/icon set.
Full installation/usage is in the README file in the archive.
Xfce4-Theme-Manager
Full Details
Meta theme tab
Window border tab
Controls tab
Icons tab
Cursors tab
Wallpapers tab
Advanced
Custom Theme Dialog
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Xfce-Theme-Manager-0.3.7
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