Enhancements etc for the ROX desktop environment

OroboROX themes

OroboROX is the recommended window manager for ROX. To apply one of these themes just unpack the archive and run the pseudo-application in Rox. In order for these themes to work correctly before a version of OroboROX newer than 0.9.9 is released you should download it by svn:

svn co https: // rox. svn. sourceforge. net / svnroot/ rox/ trunk/ OroboROX

Please note the URL has had "invisible" spaces inserted to allow it to wrap to fit in with the text flow which unfortunately means it will be incorrect if cut & pasted. Instead type the "svn co " manually then right-click on the URL and copy the URL to the clipboard then paste it into your command line.

AlePanther

AlePanther 1.1

AlePanther is ported from Alejandro Vartabedian's Metacity theme "ale-panther" which is similar to Mac OS X Jaguar's window theme.

BlueAlloy

BlueAlloy 1.1

A theme I made myself based loosely on a cross between Metacity's Smokey and Alloy themes.

BlueAlloy's source contains the working files I used to create the theme.

SysBars

SysBars is a panel applet, written in python, to provide a simple readout, in bar from, of system resource usage. It's compatible with both ROX and GNOME.

It probably only runs on Linux systems with a fairly recent kernel (definitely at least 2.6.x) but it can be extended to support other systems. It can also be extended to support other readouts besides CPU, memory and swap usage and disk and network throughput.

Details about the public git repository for SysBars are at http://repo.or.cz/w/SysBars.git; the URLs for the repository itself are git://repo.or.cz/SysBars.git and http://repo.or.cz/r/SysBars.git. Alternatively you can download the release tarball for version 0.1.3.

XDGStart

XDGStart's purpose is to manage XDG autostart desktop entries as used by GNOME and the latest C version of ROX-Session (and KDE?). This capplet is available by git; see http://repo.or.cz/w/XDGStart.git for details or use one of the following URLs with the git commands: git://repo.or.cz/XDGStart.git or http://repo.or.cz/r/XDGStart.git. Alternatively download the release tarball:

Download XDGStart 0.2.0

XDGStart was formerly known as AutoStart but had its name changed to avoid a clash with a similar existing application.

Firefox App wrapper

More than just a wrapper, this program launches a Mozilla-based browser, opening a URL in a new tab of an existing window if the browser is already running. It can cope with sound daemons and deals intelligently with local URLs, including the extra complications arising when running the browser in a chroot environment - useful for AMD64 users who have to resort to 32-bit for a usable Flash plugin. See the AppRun script for more details.

Download Firefox App wrapper 0.4.1

Pager

I made some improvements to Pager; most importantly correcting its aspect ratio.

Download Pager 1.2

It's also available by svn from the Sourceforge ROX project site.

TaskList

TaskList is an old panel applet for showing a list of buttons to select and manipulate the windows on your desktop. I've brought it up to date. See its Changes file for details. In addition to libwnck this version also needs ROX-CLib.

Download TaskList 0.6