Free multi cursor window manager 1.0 software for linux

Multi-Cursor Window Manager is a modified Unix window manager which provides multiple cursors. This allows multiple users to simultaneously interact with a Unix desktop environment.

Using a modified x2x client users can capture the keyboard and mouse input from their workstation and send to their personal cursor on a shared computer display. Multiple cursors are distinguished by different colors, and users can simultaneously interact with separate windows.

There are 7 uniquely colored cursors available. The current multi-cursor window manager is based on a modified version of IceWM 1.2.13

The multi-cursor window manager works by time-slicing the system cursor to provide the appearance of multiple independent cursors.

Compiling the Software:

To compile Ice Window Manager:

>cd icewm
>./configure --without-imlib
>make
>make install

Note: there is a preferences file in the icewm directory ("icewm/preferences"). Move this file to the installation preferences directory. It has some default choices that work well for multi-user interaction. Also, use the "nice" theme in IceWM.

To compile the x2x client:

>cd x2x-mp
>xmkmf
>make

So its not a desktop and doesnt offer you a huge pile of useless options, just the facilities needed to run your X applications and at the same time having a friendly and easy to use interface.
Objectives
Pawm goals are to be simple, small and functional. Thats important, small :), there are too bloated windows managers out there, so who wants another one ;). That means that for future releases is a very important point for us not add new features or dependencies if theyre not really necessary.
If you need to run some X apps and dont have the time, space or interest in installing a desktop like kde or gnome, then what youre looking for is pawm. Download it now and give it a try!
Functionality
As youve already guessed, it manages your windows. It provides a bar placed at the bottom of the screen to access the minimized windows, and a simple application launcher to place some icons in your desktop for frequently used applications.
Things that pawm doesnt have: keyboard support (in the todo list), workspaces, icons formats different from .xpm
To compile it the only required libraries are the Xorg/XFree86 standard libraries. It supports Xft which is the new X font library, but its no required
Platforms
Its been tested and compiled under Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, FreeBSD, NetBSD, HP-UX and OSX-XDarwin. If you got succesfull reports in other architectures let us know. It should compile in any platform, providing you use GNU make, GNU gcc, and a POSIX compatible shell.
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for a "solid" appearance when moving windows.
- An important bug with argb windows that caused crashes has been fixed.

Windowgrouper is a GNOME 2 panel applet that allows you to group windows together so that when one window in a group is minimized, unminimized, or moved to another desktop, the same operation is applied to the other windows in that group.

Windowgrouper is very easy to use, and its arguably useful.

Installation:

After you download the source archive and extract the source tree, change to the top directory of the windowgrouper-applet tree. You can build and install Windowmake with the following commands:

./configure &&
make &&
sudo make install

This will install the applet under the /usr/local prefix. You may need to tell GNOME where to look to find the Windowgrouper applet. You can do this by editing the file /etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml and adding /usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers to the searchpath.

Alternatively, you can tell the configure script to install in the /usr prefix (or in which ever prefix your GNOME installation happens to be). This way, no further configuration is required. Here are the commands that I use:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnome-panel &&
make &&
sudo make install

Usage:

Add the Windowgrouper applet to a panel like you would any other applet, by right clicking on the panel and selecting Add to Panel... Select the Windowgrouper applet from the Desktop & Windows section.

Clicking on the running applet will change the mouse pointer to the crosshairs cursor and a status window will appear in the middle of the screen to indicate that you can select a window. If you now click on a window a menu will pop up that allows you to assign the window to a group.

If you right click on the applet and select Collect New Group from the menu, you can click on a series of windows to add them all to a new group. When youre done selecting windows, just click on the desktop, the panel, or the Windowgrouper status window. You can cancel with the Escape key.

When one window in a group is hidden or minimized, so are the other members of the group. The same is true when a window is unminimized. Additionally, moving a window to a different workspace will move the other group members as well.

Linux Commander is a powerful file manager for the X Window System.

It is partially modelled after Window Commander for Windows.

Loadmeter project is a Linux/Solaris system resource monitor that uses very little memory, and is written using raw Xlib.

It monitors:

- Load average
- Uptime
- Disk usage
- Memory usage

In its normal state it displays a window with a coloured bar graph showing the load average for the past minute. This is also shown in digits at the top of the window. both are updated every second. A red notch marks the maximum load since it was started, and can be reset by pressing button2 or hidden with button3. The blue notch shows the 5 minute load average.

By clicking with button1, a pop-up window appears showing the uptime, the capacity of each filesystem, and memory/swap usage. More detailed info on each filesystem is available by highlighting the corresponding one. The way this window pops down is intentional, just to make it interesting.

Any filesystems with higher usage than specified by the -warn option (default 90%) are shown with a (default)green background. The -disk option can also be used as an instant warn feature.

Press Escape in the top level window to exit.

Loadmeter also has the ability to override window managers. Giving the option -override causes the top-level window to have the override_redirect bit set. This is useful for window managers that insist upon decorating standard clients (eg Enlightenment, at least up to DR0.9). If youve given this option, then you can still resize and move the window. During moving and resizing, the cursor displays the geometry.

Ctrl-button1 lowers the window.
Ctrl-button2 raises and moves the window.
Ctrl-button3 raises and resizes the window.
A SIGUSR1 sent to the process will also raise the top level window.

There is also a -parent switch, which can be used to specify another window (in decimal or hex form) to use as the parent for the toplevel one (default is the root). This is useful for banking several together inside another window for easy positioning, etc. The lower function doesnt work if -parent is specified. Also note that you cant use both -override and -parent at the same time.

Command-line options:

-disp < display> Specify which X server to connect to
-geom < +x+y> Specify position on the screen
-sync Call sync() when checking disk usage
-numfont < font> Use for the load digits
-labelfont < font> Use for the hostname label
-popupfont < font> Use for the cursor and popup window
-popupbg < colour> Use for the popup background
-popupfg < colour> Use for the foreground of the popup
-warnbg < colour> Use for the high disk usage warning colour
-meter < colour> Use for the disk usage meter bar
-warn < pct> Min percent capacity reqd to highlight a filesystem
-label < label> Bargraph label to use instead of the hostname
-name < name> Name of the app to present to the WM
-bh < blockheight> Height of individual bargraph blocks (in pixels)
-override Always override window manager
-parent < window> Use as the parent for the toplevel window
-noshrink Dont do fancy popup window shrinking
-disk Show a warning when disk usage exceeds -warn value
-nogeom Disables displaying the window geometry in the cursor whilst moving/resizing the main window.

BPager is a lightweight pager designed to be used with NetWM-compliant window managers like OpenBox.

Unlike many other pagers out there, OBPager has very few dependencies, requiring only Xlib and glibc++ (no Gnome or KDE necessary).

Usage:

OBPager is pretty straightforward in terms of usage. It correctly displays the windows of a virtual desktop, indicates which is the active desktop, and allows you to switch desktops by clicking on the dockapp.

The command line syntax for obpager is:

obpager [--activefont < fontname >] [--inactivefont < fontname >] [desktop-number]

If no desktop number is specified, an instance of obpager for each virtual desktop is automatically created.

Docker is a docking application (WindowMaker dock app) which acts as a system tray for KDE and GNOME2. Docker can be used to replace the panel in either environment, allowing you to have a system tray w ithout running the KDE/GNOME panel or environment.

I wrote and designed Docker to work with Openbox 2, but it should work fine in any window manager that supports WindowMaker dock apps.

If you running WindowMaker or otherwise and experiencing problems, you should try using the -wmaker option to make docker keep a fixed size.

Docker requires a KDE3 compliant window manager to handle KDE3 system tray icons, and since it is a docking application, the window manager needs to also support WindowMaker Dock Apps. The only window manager that meets these requirements to my knowledge is:

- Openbox 2 (http://icculus.org/openbox)

If you know of any other window managers that support the KDE3 hints for the system tray and docking apps (i.e. that docker works in), please let me know so I can add them to this list, and test docker out in them!

Why dont my GNOME2 system tray icons show up?

I dont know! Email me and let me know what application isnt working. (Dont you dare email me about a GNOME1 application!

FluxBat is an ACPI based battery monitor for the fluxbox window manager. It includes two parts: a daemon process that runs the update script and the update script itself.
The whole software contains only about 100 lines of code and is easy to use by including only one line in the menu configuration file of fluxbox.
Enhancements:
- This release only forces the fluxbox menu reload if the battery state really changed.