ROX Desktop
The ROX Desktop is a
desktop environment, a lightweight alternative to GNOME
or KDE
based on the ROX-Filer file manager. It is inspired by the user
interface of RISC OS.
The interface revolves around the file manager, or
filer, following the traditional Unix view that 'everything is a file'
rather than trying to hide the filesystem beneath start menus, wizards,
or druids. The aim is to make a system that is well designed and
clearly presented.
The ROX style favours using several small programs
together instead of creating all-in-one mammoth-applications.
Software included:
- ROX-Filer - a fast and powerful graphical file
manager for the X Window System
- OroboROX - a lightweight window manager for the
ROX Desktop
- Archive - an easy to use program for creating and
extracting file archives
- ROX-Session - a simple session manager
- ROX-Lib - contains shared code used by other ROX
applications
- Edit - a simple text editor with:
- Unlimited undo and redo
- Interactive searching
- Powerful search and replace, with full regular expression
support
- Syntax highlighting
- Spell checking
- Show changes from saved version, or from a previous backup
- Bookmarks
- Word wrap
- Drag-and-drop saving
- Supports UTF-8, allowing free use of characters from all
languages
- ROX-All - a single archive containing launchers for most of
the ROX applications
- AddApp - allows additional applications to be easily
installed
Internet
- Beluga - a wireless connection manager
- DownloadManager - download manager for Fetch, limiting the
number of simultaneous downloads
- Fetch - acts as a download handler for ROX-Filer
- ROX-Samba - uses fusesmb to mount Samba shares as
local directories and browse them with ROX-Filer
- Ratatosk - a simple Jabber client
- Postal - an applet that checks multiple accounts
for mail
- WiFi - a wireless quality monitor applet
- Launch - provides facilities for launching URLs
- Mail - applet which provides mail/no mail notification by
its icon and also serves as a launcher for your prefered mail client
Graphics
- RAWThumbnail - ROX-Filer helper to generate
thumbnails for the Canon RAW files (*.crw, *.cr2) from a Canon digital
camera
- Picky - an image viewer which displays PNG, JPEG and GIF
images
- ComicThumb - generates thumbnails for comix archives
(cbr, cbz, cbt)
Audio/Video
- AlgoScore - a graphical environment for
algorithmic composition, where music is constructed directly in an
interactive graphical score
- Jammin - MPD playlist randomizer
- mplayer-rox - wrapper around mplayer
- Mp3Ogg2Wav - a small rox utility to convert .ogg and .mp3
files to .wav files
- Ripper - a CD Ripper/Encoder
- FreeDB/CDDB access
- Editable track, title, genre, etc., even after CDDB
fetching
- Simultaneous rip and encode
- Supports many command-line ripper and encoder programs
(e.g. cdda2wav, cdparanoia, lame, oggenc, etc.)
- Allows album art to be saved as .DirIcon
- Configurable library (file and directory) patterns
- Volume - a Panel Applet that puts a popup volume
control in your panel. It also functions as a Mixer application
- MusicBox - a Music Player which features:
- MP3, OGG, Flac, WAV support.
- ESD, Alsa, OSS support.
- Album Art display
- Drag and Drop adding of Songs, Directories of songs, and
Playlists (m3u, pls and xml)
- Shuffle play (with cache so you don't replay songs too
frequently).
- Seek control bar to zip to specific parts of any song.
- Volume Control
- Playlist filtering
- Translations: de, fr, it, es, pt_BR
- VideoThumbnail - a helper program for ROX-Filer
which provides images for video files
- Album - converts collections of MP3 files into an
application directory that will play the files using xmms
Monitoring
- SysBars - show CPU load etc in bars on the panel
- WiFi - a wireless quality monitor applet
- HddTemp - a front end to "hddtemp" daemon showing
temperature of hard drives
- Lithium - a battery status monitor applet
- System - process and disk monitor
- NetStat - applet displays the current network
activity
- Mem - applet displays the current memory usage and the
current swap space usage
- Load - applet displays the load average of your system
- Tail - displays the contents of a text file,
updating as the text file is updated
- FreeFS - monitor free space on a file system
Miscellaneous
- XDGSupport - creates SendTo items for .desktop files
- ROX-Trasher - Trashcan application for the ROX Filer and
Desktop
- Thumbs - simple thumbnail manager
- XAttr - view or edit extended file attributes
- Execute - GUI to run programs by command / run programs as
different user
- roxunzip.sh - shell script that unpacks lots of archives
- Trashcan - a trashcan that complies with the
freedesktop-trash-spec
- ROXTerm - like gnome-terminal without Gnome baggage
- Depend - utility for checking dependencies of other ROX
utilities.
- Rubbish - a very simple rubbish bin.
- Trash - a unified trashcan application for ROX.
- ROX-thumbnailers - generates thumbnails for
ROX-Filer
using various thumbnailers
- RoxISO - create and burn data CD images
- Memo - alarm clock and reminder list
- Contacts - a Personal Information Manager
- AppFactory - automates the creation of ROX
wrappers for non-ROX programs
Configuration
- Screensaver - control screensaver settings with ROX-Session
- XDGStart - edits XDG autostart entries
- Autostart - Freedesktop.org autostart manager
- Font - font selection and smoothing configuration
- Appearance - GTK and Icon theme configuration
- Time - sets time and date
- XPlanet - pinboard backdrop application
- Resolution - change screen resolution dynamically
- Mouse - mouse configuration applet
- Keyboard - keyboard configuration applet
- Gamma - set the gamma correction for your screen
- MIME-Editor - change the rules for guessing a file's type
- Wallpaper - can be used to place an image on your desktop
background
Development tools
- Zero2Bundle - create self-contained bundles from a Zero
Install feed
Educational
- Reinteract-ROX - a system for interactive experimentation
with python
and more...
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