Free launches software for linux

TabLaunch is a simple and lightweight but cool-looking X application launch bar based on YeahLaunch. It displays a user-specified list of applications as tabs along the top of the screen.

The user can specify an x coordinate offset to position the launch bar or right-align it. The launch bar becomes hidden after a specified delay.

Each tab can be displayed as text or an icon. Tabs are "enlarged" or zoomed-in when the mouse is over a tab. Imlib or Imlib2 can be used to show and enlarge icons.

acidlaunch is a light weight GTK based launch bar.

It is designed to be small and light, with a simple XML based configuration format. Its also designed to work well with blackbox.

liblauch is a simple library enables you you launch another program from within a program. It handles the intricacies of fork(2) and execve(2) for you.

It returns a couple of pipes that are connected to the launched programs stdin and stdout. It also contains a function to terminate the launched program.

BUILDING THE LIBRARY

Invoking the "make" command gives you a list of all possible options.

The usual invocation for a system-wide installation of the library would be to do "make all", "make test", login as root, and then do a "make install".

Alternatively you can embed the library in your own program, by sticking it into a subdirectory, and invoking "make static" there.

USING THE LIBRARY

See the manual pages launch_program.3 and kill_program.3 on how to use the functions.

StreamTuned plays and records audio and video streams using mplayer as backend. It also reads stream urls and related information from playlists, webpages or XML/RSS feeds.
Streamtuned can act as Podcast client and allows for local and remote (webservice) access to the repositories containing your stream urls.
Enhancements:
- compiles with mythtv v0.18
- podcast support
- playlist cache (to be nice to xml feeds)
- file download support (used by podcast)
- item detail information screen, launches viewer for html/text data in xml feeds
- custom colors in settingsrc (streamtuned only), icon usage
- "copy and paste" stream items between repositories
- parsing of (icecast) xml and other playlists though external (custimizable) scripts
- workaround for mplayer hanging on .pls files without -playlist option
- improved parsing of mplayer (error) messages
- bug removal: tempfile blocking multiuser play, recovery from mplayer lockups, etc.
- support for static html stream storages (on webservers refusing POST requests)
- separate dump window showing mplayer stdout, allows for manual stream url start.
- multiple customizable CustomStreamEvents (mplayer output events) in player.xml

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.

Fast User Switch Applet is an applet for the GNOME 2.10 panel which allows for MacOS X-style menu-based user-switching. It integrates with GDM to switch between existing X11 sessions or create new ones as needed, and will show the same users as the GDM face browser.

The applet can display itself in the panel using either the current users name, the word "Users," or an icon, and can be configured to include an item which launches an X session in a window. The applet code is designed to allow for easy cut-and-paste of the system-interaction code into other applications, like screensavers

Potracegui is a GUI interface for potrace and autotrace, two programs for tracing bitmapped images.
It really doesnt do much, all the dirt work is done by potrace and autotrace, my app is simply an interface: it collects informations in an easy way (hopefully) and then it launches potrace or autotrace with all the relevant options.
Potrace and autotrace, on the contrary, are great apps for tracing so that they can be scaled, rotated, and transformed in general, without loss of quality.
Well, using a GUI sometimes is more comfortable (particularly if working with images), even if Im a strong supporter of command-line programs. On the other hand, Potracegui (thanks to Jakub Stachowski) can now load remote files (web, ftp...), use any image format recognized by KDE (potrace uses only a few bitmapped formats) and support drag and drop.
Installation:
Potracegui is installed with the usual:
./configure
make
su
make install
Installation on SuSE linux + kde 3.1 or KDE 3.2
If you are using SuSE, you have to specify to configure the directory where KDE is installed (/opt/kde3):
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3
make
su
make install
Installation on Mandrake 9.2 with KDE3.2:
If you are using Mandrake and NVIDIA drivers, you have to consider two problems before compiling Potracegui:
Potracegui expects to find the library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.la, but in this distribution the library is installed in /usr/lib/libGL.la. All you have to do is symlink it:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib
ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.la .
Enhancements:
- Quick bugfix: deleted debug() method from options.cpp