Free fans software for linux

wxSand is a Falling Sand Game is a particle toy - you can play with different elements, explore how they interact, and, in some reimplementations, make your own elements.

It is great fun to make interactive structures, ecosystems, and toys in a Falling Sand Game.

First of all, mad props go out to the original creator of this game. Great idea. I only wish I could read Japanese... Heres a link to the original, or at least as close to the original as I can find (Again, without knowing how to read Japanese.)
http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html

Having wasted hours of productivity on the Java verison of the Falling Sand Game, I began to think of improvements that could be made from the original. No source was available for the original, and Java isnt my choice programming language, that I decided to start de novo with C/C++ and the cross-platform wxWidgets.

(I leave it to you Java fans out there to make your own improved Falling Sand Game.)

I tend to feel that The Falling Sand Game should be more of a Zen experience than anything else. I also belive that the game should be as cyclic as possible, so that environments can run and evolve for long periods of time. Finally, I realized the close connection of The Sand Game with the game of Life: Whereby, with a few very simple rules, and some starting conditions, you can create a very unpredictable outcome.
Of course, the original is pretty sweet. So Ive make a version with my own rules, and one with the original rules, and then one with the original rules plus some neat extra items. I have implemented many, many more interactions and elements than the original version. Discover them as you play.

Version 2 has no fire (Versions 3 & 4 do, though.) I dont like how easy it is to destroy everything. It also doesnt have any free-moving characters. I feel they distract attention from the evolution of the field.

Originally, I didnt want to make this Open Source. I think it takes away from the mysticism of the game. Those of you that are so inclined should be able to see the simple algorithm. Note the close connection with the game of Life. Also note the impossible situations, like unequalized water levels. These arent shortcomings of the game, but instead interesting artifacts of the rules of this alternate reality!

Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.

Pan is also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.

Pan runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows, and most flavors of Unix.

TkPanel is a panel application, greatly inspired by the CDE panel, with some other features; it is basically used to call other programs, that can be configured by the user. Thus, with TkPanel, the programs which are more often executed can be easily called.
TkPanel is able to lock the computer, and can run arbitrary command on the fly. It can show basic information about the computer resources (CPU and memory usage), display the time in various formats, and has a simple schedule. There is a graphical tool to config, change all its variables, add/remove buttons and sub-panels.
The user can also use TkPanel to change the page when running at some specifics Window Managers, place it at any edge of the screen (thus, really fans of TkPanel can have a few programs running at the same time!), align it at the corners, turn it into a hidden mode, and select what tools to display as buttons (choosing its place). All its functions are available through some keystrokes.
TkPanel is written on a Linux system with Tcl/Tk scripts; first to allow easy modifications being applied; second, to be executed on systems where Tcl/Tk is available.
Enhancements:
- (schedule) can select a date when clicking at the calendar
- removed an extra newline that is printed each time get_sch is called
- fixed schedule to print messages without date;
- read in config window will update the colors too...;
- changed some panel appearances on the man page to control-panel;

aKtion! is a video player based on xanim. It (xanim) supports many different file formats:
AVI animations.
Quicktime Animations.
FLI animations.
FLC animations.
IFF animations.
GIF87a and GIF89a files.
GIF89a animation extension support.
DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and most of 3.
Amiga MovieSetter animations(For those Eric Schwartz fans).
Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
SGI Movie Format Files.
During a video playback, you can press the c key to capture the current frame being played. You dont need to pause the video, just press the c key. The frames will be saved in the "Output directory" (see the configuration dialog in the "Capture" tab), with the specified format. They will have the name of the current file followed by a number which indicates the capture order (e.g. "myVideo1.bmp myVideo2.bmp ...").
These are the install instructions:
1. Uncompress the aktion.tgz file in the usual way (try Ark ;-)
2. Go into the /aktion-0.4.1 directory.
3. Type "./configure"
4. Then "make"
5. And finally (as root) "make install"
Enhancements:
- fixed a mimetype bug in aktion.kdelnk
- updated portugese translation
- fixed a bug in trasnlations

wmalms monitors data obtained from a sensor chip: temperature, fan speed, voltage.

It can be used as a dockable/swallowed applet with Window Maker, BlackBox and clones (incl. FluxBox), or any window manager that supports swallowing, including gnome, kde(kpanel)-1, fvwm and clones.

Alternatively, you can run wmalms as a normal window with any window manager

wmalms is designed to suit any hardware supported by lm_sensors.

It provides a wide range of customized features, including window appearance, order and representation of sensor data, refresh frequency, alarm mode, etc.

I started developing wmalms, after I tried several other sensor monitors, and neither worked for me.

EasySok project is a sokoban game for KDE3.
In sokoban you are a warehouse keeper which has to push gems on their goals. The problem is, that the keeper can only push one gem and there are walls which stand in his way.
Sokoban was originally invented in 1982 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi at the Japanese company Thinking Rabbit, Inc. Sokoban has a (relatively) small, but very active group of fans around the world, which permanently create new levels and sokoban programs, so its unlikely that youll run out of new material.
If you dont use KDE3, just look at the link section, to find programs which are supported on your favorite platform (there are versions for Windows, Mac, PalmPilot, DOS and several Java programs, so you should find a program which you can use).
Main features:
- Playable with mouse or keyboard (or both).
- Automatically saves the last attempt for each map and all solutions.
- The best solutions for each level can be send to a highscore server and compared with the solutions of other users. The solutions are compared by the minimum number of pushes, the minimum number of linear pushes, the minimum number of gem changes and the minimum number of moves.
- A retro mode. In this mode you play the game backwards, starting from the end position. This allows you to quickly determine, in which order you have to push the gems on the goals.
- Saving and loading of games, level collections and solutions.
- A map editor, which lets you create your own maps and collections. It has also very limited support for auto generation of maps.
- Export a map as an image.
- Export a game either as an MNG-animation.
- An easy way to find duplicate maps.
- Annotation of solutions.
- Bookmarks for fast switching between games. You can also import your old KSokoban bookmarks.
- Unlimited undo/redo.
- You can let your moves be played.
- You can optimize your solutions for the number of moves or pushes made. This can also be done automatically for you.
- A basic solver (its not really clear, if this is a feature or a misfeature).
- You can change the look of the game by themes (currently the number of themes is really quite small).
- You can let the game honor dead fields (which are fields, where no gem should ever be positioned, because it cannot be moved to a goal from there). Depending on the theme, this dead fields are also marked. You have to try it, to really appreciate it!
- You can also let the programm show you all valid gem pushes.
- Its highly configurable.
Enhancements:
- Fixed configuration of toolbar.
- Made toolbar hidable.
- Updated admin dir to kde3.3 version.

GlassHUDX is a beautiful system monitoring theme for SuperKaramba. GlassHUDX is inspired by the wonderful GlassHUD theme from mytharak. It uses modified versions of the backgrounds and some of the layout ideas.

GlassHUDX consists of the following widgets:

Glassmem - a memory sensor widget

Displays total memory, used memory,free memory w/o buffers/cache and free memory including buffers/cache.
Middle-clicking the widget displays the top 10 processes using memory resources.

Glasscpu - a simple CPU monitor

Displays CPU type and CPU clock and shows CPU usage as graph.
Middle-clicking the widget displays the top 10 processes using CPU resources.
The design is very close to the original GlassHUD CPU monitor.

Glassclock - a simple time and date display

Simple clock in 12/24 hour format.
Launches Korganizer when you click on the date meter.
Configuration option for 24 hour or 12 hour display.
Configuration option for date format strings.

Glasstemp - a sensor widget

Displays CPU temperature, MB temperature and CPU fan speed.
Temperatures are in Celsius. To display temperatures in
Fahrenheit, add TEMPUNIT=F to the KARAMBA line in glasstemp.theme.

You need the sensors program installed for this widget to work.

Glassmounter - a device mounter inspired by Ibayuks MountApp for WMaker

Mounts devices and displays the mount state of the selected device. Any number of devices can be added. The selected device can be mounted, unmounted or ejected (if supported). Clicking on the device name mounts the device (if unmounted) and launches a filemanger. The filemanager command can be configured (default is "kfmclient exec").

Glasswifi - a wireless monitor and launch widget

Starts/stops a wireless interface.
Displays the link quality and either signal/noise level or bytes in/out.
The wireless interface can be set through the configuration menu (default is ath0)

Have a look at the README for the configuration of the widgets

Any bug reports and improvements are welcome.