Free individual software for linux

X Window Properties Viewer project allows you to select a X window and view/edit its properties.

A tree viewer lets to see part or all of the windows tree on your X server.

After selecting a window you can view all of the resources at once or select individual ones for viewing/editing.

Only editing strings is currently supported.

IntraSchool project is a school intranet management system.
IntraSchool is a school intranet management system for Announcements, Attendance, Assignments, and Computer Issue Tracking throughout a school.
Main features:
- Announcements
- Schoolwide: Viewable by any visitor [Events, Days off]
- Teacherwide: Viewable only by teachers
- Group/Clubwide: Viewable by all, but separated announcements for specific clubs
- Assignments
- Individual classbased assignments
- Students can subscribe to class assignment mailing list
- Students can retrieve missed assignments and scanned worksheets
- Students can submit homework online
- Web
- Standardized Layout that fits with entire site
- Word>HTML
- Scheduling

Bitswiki is a wiki that runs on Ruby on Rails.
Bitswiki project features:
- tags
- searching
- textile markdown
- revision comparison
- pluggable external authentication
- listing of recent changes
- RSS feeds for individual page changes or the entire wiki
- scriptaculous drawer effects
Bitswiki Installation Instructions:
Edit config/database.yml to your taste. For example, to use MySQL, search and replace postgresql to mysql, and postgres to root.
Execute these commands inside the bitswiki root directory:
createdb bitswiki
rake db:schema:load
script/server
Point your browser at http://localhost:3000/

bitedit is a simple ncurses program for editing a file. It allows you to directly edit of the individual bits of a binary file in a graphical fashion. It is useful for editing bitmap font files.

Tonality is a GUI-driven utility that streamlines the typical Black and White image conversion process. It thumbnails images in B&W for quick preview.
It allows previews based on individual color channels. It also makes adjusting individual channel contributions without changing the overall exposure easy.
Main features:
- Integrated file browser/preview
- Thumbnails displayed optionaly in B&W
- Single button click to preview conversion using a single channel
- Simple interface to adjust color channel contributions without changing the exposure
- Individual channels can be "locked"
Installation:
Extract archive file
tar xzvf tonality-x.x.tar.gz
cd tonality-x.x
Create Makefile using qmake.
qmake tonality.pro > Makeffile
Build application
make
Install application
su
cp tonlaity /usr/local/bin
Enhancements:
- A SEGV which occurred if clicking was done very quickly in file browser was fixed.
- A problem where typing very quickly could result in some keypresses not being registered was fixed.
- Thumbnail logic was changed to not store scaled images if they are below the minimum icon size.

Swing Glue is an ultra thin layer that allows to decouple view, controller and model into separate individual domains.
It as not just another framework as you might think now. It is an very generic layer that has a minimal impact to the application where swing glue is used.
Main features:
- Object repository that minimizes transport of references
- automatic population of Adhesive class members from the repository
- abstraction of view code and event code
- no wrapping component classes, you still use the normal Swing classes
Swing Glue is proof for the legend that a framewok does not necessarly has to be a Bloat of code that helps you to simplify your development.
It also works with a simple framework that is non evasive and has a very simple code base.

PersonalDB is background process that provides access for multiple users to individual SQL databases. The SQL database provides a central internet accessible datastore for a variety of applications. In particular, the database can be used as a personal information manager (PIM).

However, SQL databases are simply a way of storing structured data. As such, a PersonalDB account can be used to store many different types of data. A PersonalDB account is an ideal way of storing information that should be accessible world-wide.

Personal data like addresses, todo items, and memos are certainly are good choice. A PersonalDB account can also be used to store application settings, so that they follow you from computer to computer.