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Thinksaber Thinksaber is a reimplementation of MacSaber using the HDAPS sensors on modern IBM Thinkpads to detect motion and to turn those motions into Star Wars lightsaber sound effects. new Aqua Fusion Aqua Fusion is an extensive and elaborate original icon theme designed for KDE. Aquarium applet Aquarium applet is a wmapplet that gives you an aquarium with some randomly selected fishes that lives there. Well, to tell you the truth, you can get a turtle in your aquarium too. Bambam Bambam is a simple baby keyboard masher application. It locks the keyboard and mouse and instead displays bright colors, pictures, and sounds. BgChanger Bgchanger is a set of python scripts to add wallpaper rotation functionality to Gnome. It was designed with *simplicity* in mind. It consists of two main executables along with a supporting library all written in python. BitLife BitLife is eye candy showing parallel Conway's Life games in the bit planes of the screen. bomb Bomb is a visual-musical instrument. It uses alife, and is alife. It runs on your PC and produces animated organic graphics in response to the keyboard, audio music, or on its own. BusyMouse BusyMouse is a simple application that runs in the background on your Linux box and uses interrupt monitoring from the /proc filesystem to change your X11 mouse cursor when the disk (or possibly other interrupt) is accessed. CAFire CAFire displays a burning trace after the mouse pointer in X. It can work in a normal or in the root window. cage CAGE is a fairy generic and complete cellular automaton simulation engine in Python. It supports both 1D and 2D automata, a variety of prepackaged rules, and the concept of "agents" which can move about independently on the map for implementing agent behavior. cteddy Adapted from the description of the original Xteddy, cteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your composited X Windows desktop. CWallpaper CWallpaper is a front end for fbsetbg, Esetroot, feh, and other wallpaper changers. It can also change the wallpaper for Rox's pinboard, and will work with any root wallpaper changer. Desktop Drapes Desktop Drapes is a wallpaper manager application for the gnome desktop. It has features (period) Features like, randomly changing your wallpaper every once in a while, or whenever you fell like it. It can also automaticaly pickup any wallpapers you added to a directory with the ninja magic of inotify. Explosions Explosions is a simplified 3D world with alpha-blended objects that look kind of like fireworks or sparks. It also has a number of effects built in, such as fading, blurring, fire ("heat"), and zooming. FaceBuilder FaceBuilder is a little toy application that lets you construct faces by putting together eyes, nose, mouth, head, hair and some additional items. You can also move, scale and rotate each of those face-parts as you like. fblogo fblogo takes an image as input and generates an appropriate linux_logo.h which can simply be included in the kernel. It will be displayed when the framebuffer device is enabled. fdm fdm is a bit of eye candy for the X Window System. Little lines wiggle around, follow each other, bounce through mazes, and leave pretty trails. FileCityMap FileCityMap is a 3-dimensional file system browser that turns any given folder into a city. Perl scripts are stop signs, tar balls are trash cans, etc. Fireworkx Fireworkx is a pyrotechnic eye-candy simulation that explodes in both X and SVGAlib atmospheres. Floating Head Floating Head lets you watch the author's ugly mug (or your own) float around the screen. GAI bgswitcher GAI bgswitcher is a simple dockapp / gnome applet that lets you switch the background. It displays random thumbnails from a user specified directory. GCursor GCursor changes your Xcursor with an animated preview. gDesklets gDesklets provides an advanced architecture for desktop applets, tiny displays sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. New desklets can be put together by simply composing widgets in a XML file. Ghost Diagrams Ghost Diagrams is a program that takes sets of tiles and tries to find patterns into which they may be formed. The patterns it finds when given randomly chosen tiles are often surprising. GKrellKam GKrellKam is a plugin to GKrellM that displays a thumbnail of a periodically updated image in a panel. GKrellM trayicons GKrellM trayicons is a plugin for gkrellm that displays a variable number of user-defined, automatically scaled icons. The icons may be used either for notification or as application launchers. The plugin serves a similar purpose to the "system tray" on the Windows taskbar. The notification functionality has been designed to facilitate easy integration into shell scripts and existing applications. Gnoguin Gnoguin is a little cute helpful annoying penguin that runs after your mouse cursor. It is four frames of animation. GNOME CPUFreq Applet GNOME CPUFreq Applet is a CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor for GNOME Panel GNOME floating background GNOME floating background subtly changes the color of the GNOME desktop over time -- so slowly that it won't be noticed. This is a good alternative to placing a wallpaper. Gnome-Art NextGen This is the successor of Gnome-Art and lets you change your Gnome-themes (icon-, wallpaper-, splash-,...-themes) with one click. gSmile gSmile is an open-source emoticon manager, that is a nice piece of software that helps you to keep your emoticons and smilies organized and to find them quickly whenever you need one of them. gSplashFu gSplashFu is an exceptionally over-developed splashscreen changer. It has many amusing, if not technically useful, features. GtkLife GtkLife is a fast, featureful, open-source Conway's Life program for *nix. It is capable of handling complex patterns with ease: the universe holds 1 million x 1 million cells, and the algorithm for computing generations is highly optimized. Speed is comparable to the venerable XLife, and in some cases faster. gTweakUI gTweakUI is a collection of simple dialogues as a front end to GConf. gworldclock gworldclock displays the time and date of specified time zones using a GTK+ interface. It also allows the zones to be synchronised to a time other than the current time.This program displays the time and date of specified time zones using a GTK+ interface. It also allows the zones to be synchronised to a time other than the current time. IceWMCP Wallpaper IceWMCP Wallpaper is a tool for managing the desktop background and wallpaper under IceWM. The application features on-demand previewing of all wallpapers (preview the wallpaper as 'centered', or 'tiled' right in the application), and a comfortable user interface. JuggleMaster JuggleMaster is a juggling siteswap animator. It can animate any valid siteswap, and has a large library of patterns included. KDE cpufreq applet kcpufreq is a KDE 3.x panel applet that displays the current CPU frequency. It is very similar to the GNOME cpufreq applet and in fact copies its icons. The applet not particularly sophisticated. KFish KFish is a Fish for the KDE Desktop Enviroment, its a kicker panel applet. KSplash/ML KSplash/ML is now an integrated part of KDE. KSplash/ML supports third-party splash screen engines now. This means that your splash screen can literally look however you want it to, with a minimum of effort. KSplashman a control module for choosing and customizing "Splash-Screens" themes introduced from KDE version 2.x KWanda KWanda is a fish applet for the KDE panel (kicker). Linux Logo Linux Logo is a text-based logo and sysstem information program for Linux. linuxlogo linuxlogo displays the Linux logo in an X Window System window. It can also display images read from most popular image file formats such as JPEG, GIF, PNM, TGA, RLE, BMP, PNG, TIFF, and so forth. ma2ze ma2ze is a 3D maze written in the matlab language. It is completely useless and abuses a very useful, though commercial, computer algebra system. Madness Madness is a port of a toy with the same name from RISC OS. When started, your windows move around your desktop in a semi-random fashion, bouncing off screen edges, the panel. nautilus-wallpaper nautilus-wallpaper is a Nautilus extension that adds the ability to set your desktop wallpaper from the context menu. Nitrogen Nitrogen is a background browser and setter for X windows. It is written in C++ using the gtkmm toolkit. It can be used in two modes: browser and recall. PDF Cube PDFCube renders PDF presentations with special 3D effects (the omnipresent rotating cube and 5 predefined zoom animations). It adds eye-candy to your PDF presentations, even Latex, Beamer and Prosper ones. Pencilpond Pencilpond displays a tiling of the hyperbolic plane in the Poincare disk representation which can be navigated by moving the mouse. The tiles are regular-ngons whose vertices are ideal points, i.e. every pair of adjacent edges is asymptotically parallel. PyroTechnics PyroTechnics is a freely distributable OpenGL-based firework simulator. ScopeShapes ScopeShapes is a program which uses the computer's stereo sound out to drive the X- and Y- inputs of an oscilloscope in order to produce 3D and 2D vector shapes, kinda a bit like certain early video games such as Asteroids, Star Wars, and of course, the Vectrex. SDL_timeless SDL_timeless is a linux/SDL port of Tran's timeless demo written in 1994. The demo is like a screen saver, there is stuff warping around onscreen and colors are changing and sprites are doing stuff. Sherman's aquarium Sherman's aquarium is a wm (window maker) applet and gnome applet too, that gives you an aquarium with some randomly selected fishes that lives there. SlimEdge SlimEdge is a slim blue theme for the window manager IceWM which uses transparency. Snowpath formation simulation Snowpath formation simulation models the process of snow path formation. The evolving condition of the snow is displayed graphically. speyes speyes is a totally useless xeyes Window Maker dock app clone. splax splax is an utility to create and control splash screens. splax can be controlled by sending commands through a named pipe, giving the controlling script a way to dynamically update the splash screen. SSHMenu SSHMenu is a GNOME panel applet that makes starting up a new terminal window with an SSH connection to a remote host just a click away. A preferences dialog allows you to add and organise hosts. Window positions and sizes can be set along with a profile for controlling text and background colours as well as font details. It also includes a version without GNOME dependencies that can be run as a small standalone window or swallowed into the panel of another window manager. SunflowerApplet SunflowerApplet changes the shadow on the windows managed by compiz when the decorator plugin is enabled and with beryl when emerald is used as the decorator. SuperKaramba SuperKaramba is a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on your KDE desktop. telak telak is a small tool to draw local or remote pictures on your root window. This is very useful if you want to have webcam, graphs or something like this drawn above your wallpaper. telelalka telelalka is a program for making puppet theater via the Internet. Both the puppeteers and the spectators can be located anywhere in the world as long as they have Internet access. Puppeteers move their puppets on the screen using the mouse and will type dialogs using the keyboard. Spectators will watch the show on their computers. The Demo Effects Collection The Demo Effects Collection is a collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene. TkLife TkLife is a simple drawing tool. Also, TkLife is a generator of complex patterns simulating birth, life and death of cells. Finally, TkLife can be used to visualize multiple sequence alignments. tuhtah tuhtah is a GTK+/GNOME program that keeps cruising around your desktop and changes the direction when it hits a border of the screen! It is meant for pure enjoyment and fun. Vladstudio Kompanion Vladstudio Kompanion is a KDE port and enhancement of the Windows-based Companion, a utility that allows you to monitor, download, and install wallpaper from vladstudio.com. Wallpaper Tray Wallpaper Tray is a utility for the Gnome Desktop Panel. You add the applet to your panel, and use it to manage and display your wallpaper collection wallpaperChooser wallpaperChooser is a small application for managing your wallpapers. It has the ability to store wallpapers, preview them, and set them on the desktop. WallpaperZapper WallpaperZapper is a random wallpaper selector for GNOME. It allows you to change periodically your background, randomly picking the new one from GNOME backgrounds lists. Wallpapoz This tool enables your Gnome desktop to have different wallpapers for different workspaces or virtual desktops. It offers quick orientation cues where you are. wbs wbs is a webshots.com client that downloads and creates a background list for use with Xfce, icewm, and Windowmaker. wmblob wmblob shows some blobs moving around. It does nothing useful, it's just a toy. WMEyes WMEyes is a silly little dockapp, along the lines of XEyes. WMGlobe The whole Earth spinning on your desktop... as a dockable app. wmluabutton wmluabutton is a general purpose dockapp which is scriptable with lua. It can load and display xpm images at runtime, detect mouse clicks on the images, and can check and update the state regularly. It is intended as a dockapp for X window managers such as Window Maker, AfterStep, BlackBox, and Enlightenment. wmsystray wmsystray provides a system tray for your X11 environment. wmsystray can be (and currently works best as) a Window Maker dock app. wmThemeCh wmThemeCh is a dockapp to change your Window Maker theme/background with categories. Left-click changes between themes belonging to the current category. Right-click changes the category. You can optionally ask wmThemeCh to change the theme periodically. xcowsay xcowsay is a graphical configurable talking cow. It's a GTK+ version of the classic cowsay Perl script. It displays a cute pop-up cow on your desktop with a speech bubble and some customizable text. XCruiser XCruiser, formerly known as XCruise, is a filesystem visualization utility. It constructs a virtually 3-D formed universe from a directory tree and allows you to "cruise" within a visualized filesystem. XCurs XCurs is a program for editing XCursor formatted XFree86 mouse cursors. xdaf xdaf is a small tool to provide a visual feedback of the local disks activity by changing the default X11 mouse pointer to an animated wheel. xdesktopwaves xdesktopwaves is a cellular automata setting the background of your X Windows desktop under water. Windows and mouse are like ships on the sea. Each movement of these ends up in moving water waves. You can even have rain and/or storm stirring up the water. XELand XELand generates night landscapes as stereo pairs for cross-eye views. Xlockmore Xlockmore is an enhanced version of xlock that requires no gui interface for build, just vanilla X. XPenguins XPenguins makes cute little penguins fall from the top of your screen and walk on the top of your windows. zufall This is a simple program to change the background periodically. It takes one or more directories with images as a parameter (no GUI) and sets a randomly chosen image as background. If there is a border remaining, its color is the average color of two corners of the image. This mostly fits the image very well.
