Free Desktop Enhancements for Linux

Blackbox is an open source and freely distributed software project that has been designed from the ground up to act as a standalone or integrated window manager in the style of the more popular Openbox and Fluxbox projects. It is a lightweight and low on...

Zope Weather applet allows people to display weather information for a particular location in Zope, by automatically retrieving data from the NOAA's Metar servers from time to time.What's New in This...

cwm is a window manager for X11 initially inspired by evilwm. It developed out of modifications to evilwm, but eventually the code base of evilwm did not accomodate well for the new features added. So cwm was written from scratch.cwm has several novel...

GNOME CPUFreq Applet is a CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor for GNOME Panel.Here are some key features of "GNOME CPUFreq...

GNotify is a little daemon written in C using GTK. It provides (like the KDE KNotify-system) a notification-service for Gnome/XFce/FVWM/Fluxbox/Enlightenment and other Desktop-Environments/WindowManagers.Clients can connect from the local machine or from...

SimpleKDE is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX and UNIX based operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris. Shortly it provides a graphical user interface on top of UNIX shells.SimpleKDE is not written from scratch; in fact, it is a...

Athene is a commercial operating system developed by Rocklyte Systems for use in the home and office. Athene combines years of Rocklyte's R&D with the latest Linux technology to create one of the fastest operating systems available today.With boot times...

XPde is a complete desktop environment for Linux on x86. It tries to make easier for Windows XP users to use a Linux box.Nothing more, no clipboard compatibility between Gtk and Qt applications, no emulation of Windows applications, no unification on the...

As the name suggests, this little program lets you change your Gtk+ 2.0 theme. The aim is to make theme preview and selection as slick as possible.Themes installed on the system are presented for selection and previewed on the fly. For a comprehensive...

Clearbox is a customizable theme for the GNOME's Metacity window manager.A small GTK application allows you to configure the different theme aspects, preview the theme and save it in the user themes folder.The options that can be configured in the...