Free widescreen wallpaper software for linux

How to install?

• Right click on your desktop and select Change Desktop Background
• Click on the first tab: Theme
• Drag and drop the themes archive in the Appearance Preferences window.
• If everything is OK, you will receive a confirmation message and you can activate the theme just by clicking on it.

Requirements: GNOME

JackLab Audio Distribution is a remastered openSUSE for musicians, producers and media creators.

The JackLab Team is proud to present the first public alpha-release of the JackLab Audio Distribution (JAD). The 1.2GB DVD iso can be downloaded from jacklab.org.

We have found that musicians have particular requirements for their Linux environment. A Linux-based distribution that is designed for music needs to be flexible, powerful, yet easy and quick to use. All of these things are essential in a busy, creative environment. Thinking about these requirements, we decided to base JAD on openSUSE due to its stability and long development history. All major administrative tasks can be done graphically and easily without having to learn any complicated terminal commands.

JAD will be fully compatible with the recently released openSUSE 10.2. It will contain a full production environment for media production, primarily music. For this, the JackLab team added a Realtime Kernel version 2.6.19 to have fast audio processing with a latency up to 1.5ms. The default audio system will be based on the the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) which is designed for the needs of musicians and producers and gives a professional audio/midi controlling interface.

The installer is based on the acclaimed YaST2, which also serves as an easy-to-use administrative tool. To keep as many essential computer resources for music as possible, we have decided to use Enlightenment D17 desktop shell as the default window manager. KDE desktop environment is also included, so the user-friendly file manager - Konqueror, is available along with Kmail, Konversation, k3b and other KDE tools. For music creation and editing, we have included around 70 audio applications with sequencers, synthesizers and tools all installed and ready to go. User-friendly support for setting up and running VST instruments and effects is given. Additionally, there are applications for video production and a graphic suite that are included on the DVD. For browsing the internet, we have included Firefox 2.0 chosen for its stability, security and extendability.

JAD is a community based effort and is the culmination of the work of many contributors. Recently, JackLab and PackMan (packman.links2linux.de) have joined forces to offer JAD access to the PackMan repositories so that up-to-date audio software, non-audio software and multimedia codecs are available to JAD users. The JAD development team would like you to participate in the development process too. There are different ways you can help:

-As a tester, you can download the most recent version and use the bugtracker to report any problems.
-You can participate in the graphics contest: The best graphics submitted will be used as default for the bootscreen, wallpaper, skins and icons.
-You can submit feature requests and take part in discussions on the mailing list.
-For taking part in providing user support, there is a web based forum and an IRC channel - it is also an essential part of the development process to see feedback.

dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
dvd::rip project uses the widely known video processing swissknife transcode and many other Open Source tools. dvd::rip itself is licensed under GPL / Perl Artistic License.
Main features:
- Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD (and probably other Unices) and does not depend on anything produced in Redmond - pure Open Source!
- Rip to harddisk, on the fly or from an existent DVD image
- Select audio track(s), viewing angle(s), multitple titles
- Rip as much audio tracks as you like into one AVI/OGG/SVCD file
- Supports nearly all of transcodes video codecs, e.g: divx4, divx5, xvid, xvidcvs, ffmpeg, fame, opendivx and mpeg2enc
- DivX/Xvid multipass encoding
- (S)VCD modes, with multiple audio tracks for SVCD
- Integrated video bitrate calculator based on target size resp. number of discs
- Automatic splitting of the target files for best fit on the specified number of discs
- Several deinterlace filter presets
- Audio AC3 and PCM passthrough
- Audio MP3 encoding
- Audio volume maximizing and/or range compression
- OGG/Vorbis support, quality and bitrate based, adjusting the optimal video bitrate after audio transcoding in quality mode
- WAV file creation from a selected audio track
- Subtitle rendering and vobsub creation
- Support for all transcode video filters, with realtime configuration and video preview
- Live video transcoding preview window
- Chapter mode: one file per chapter
- Use your favorite movie player for preview
- Provide frame clipping, resizing and final clipping
- Powerful auto adjusting of all clip & zoom parameters
- Adjust clipping area using drag and drop
- dvd::rips zoom calculator let you adjust every possible parameter, if you like to do so
- Two resize modes: fast and high quality resizing
- Simple but easy to use CD burning facility
- Last but not least a comprehensive cluster mode, which let you use all your Linux/Unix hardware for parallel encoding.
Enhancements:
- A small screen layout mode was added, which makes dvd::rip fit on small screens like 15" widescreen notebooks.

Gnome Control Center is GNOMEs main interface for configuration of various aspects of your desktop.
Enhancements:
about-me:
- Add a tooltip to the image button to make it accessible (Jens Granseuer)
appearance:
- Add option to add wallpapers via the command line (Jens Granseuer) (#456337)
- Use new GTK+ convenience API for icon view tooltips (Matthias Clasen)
(#455985)
- Bump all tooltips code to GTK 2.11.6 (Jens Granseuer)
- Improve color scheme matching (Jens Granseuer)
- When reading current settings from gconf, get the color scheme from the
GTK theme if necessary to allow matching against themes retrieved via
gnome-theme-info (Jens Granseuer)
- Implement saving of the cursor theme name in metathemes and add a
Default pointer option to the cursor theme list (Denis Washington)
- Simplify tooltip descriptions (Dennis Cranston) (#460111)
- Really unset the gconf key when reverting colors (Jens Granseuer)
- Implement drag-and-drop theme installation (Denis Washington)
- Remove workarounds for initialization problems in early versions of the
capplet (Jens Granseuer)
- Fix cell renderer state logic to not always be on (Jens Granseuer)
- Use cairo to draw the cell renderer selection (Thomas Wood)
- Show readable_name in cursor theme list instead of name (Denis Washington)
- Fix mnemonics and customize theme window title (Thomas Wood) (#461255)
- Fix theme installation (Thomas Wood)
- Update icon cache when installing icon themes (Thomas Wood) (#355486)
- Prevent some memory leaks (Thomas Wood)
- Add controls for applying suggested backgrounds and/or fonts from
metathemes (Denis Washington)
- Only show background/font suggestions if they havent already been
applied (Denis Washington)
- Cope with unset gconf keys and group gconf notifications (Jens Granseuer)
- Only create the custom theme entry when changes are made, and delete it
when the theme is saved (Jens Granseuer)
- Add %F to the exec line so external programs like epiphany can set the
background (Jens Granseuer) (#456337)
- Default to showing the background tab if wallpapers were given on the
command line (Jens Granseuer)
- Use our custom cell renderer for metathemes too, so the previews dont
get shaded (Jens Granseuer) (#461198)
default applications:
- Change custom command entries to be insensitive instead of
noneditable (Matthias Clasen) (#456308)
- Remove spurious desktop entries (Jens Granseuer) (#444787)
keyboard:
- Improved layout and sorting (Sergey Udaltsov) (#455353)
- Implement DND in the selected layouts list (Sergey Udaltsov) (#351936)
- Eliminate up/down buttons in the layout list (Sergey Udaltsov)
network:
- Also use new icon in the window title bar (Denis Washington)
settings daemon:
- Dont forget the Xft callback (Jens Granseuer) (#455992)
themus:
- Update to match theme callback signature (Jens Granseuer)
general:
- Fix crash when no cursor is specified in theme (Frederic Crozat) (#455952)
- General cleanup and leak-plugging (Jens Granseuer, Thomas Wood)
- Dont fail configuring if gstreamer is not available, simply skip the sound
capplet (Jens Granseuer) (#456957)
- Remove spurous AT desktop entries (Jens Granseuer) (#444787)
- Add support for custom theme names saved in metathemes (Denis Washington)
- Re-add basic support for cursor themes for X servers without the Xcursor
extension, like the one in Solaris (Denis Washington)
- When applying a metatheme, check wether to set/unser color scheme gconf
key (Jens Granseuer) (#421866)
- Fix notification of selection changed for GtkTreeView config support (Jens
Granseuer)
- Prevent cursor themes from being recognized as icon themes (Denis Washington)
- Read a cursor themess name from its index.theme file if it has one (Denis
Washington)
- Expand check for empty metatheme color scheme to include blank color scheme
strings (Thomas Wood)
- Add tooltip foreground and background colors to the list of recognized
symbolic colors (Thomas Wood)
updated translations:
- es (Jorge Gonzalez)
- et (Priit Laes)
- fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
- gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
- gu (Ankit Patel)
- hu (Gabor Kelemen)
- ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
- lt (Zygimantas Berucka)
- nb (Kjartan Maraas)
- nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
- sv (Daniel Nylander)
- th (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
- zh_CN (Funda Wang)

GNOME floating background project subtly changes the color of the GNOME desktop over time -- so slowly that it wont be noticed. This is a good alternative to placing a wallpaper.

The program does have a minimal processor time consumption, as it
sleeps most of the time and its computations are not complicated. In
fact, GFloatbg doesnt change the color directly. It relies on
Nautilus (or an equivalent application) to paint the background using
the color set in the gconf key
/desktop/gnome/background/primary_color, which this program updates
periodically.

GFloatbg doesnt use any window, button or menu, and it can only be
stopped by killing it. This is a feature I dont like too much, but
making a realy nice user interface is just too much for such a little
joke...

GFloatbg starts with a random color and changes it deterministicly by
moving through a HSV-model of colors.

In the HSV-model, colors are described by three parameters:

h = hue stands for the tint of a color
(0 degrees is red, 60 = yellow, 120 = green, 180 = aquamarine, etc)
s = saturations stands for the brightness of the color
(0 = white, 1 = bright)
v = value stands for the intensity of the color
(0 = black, 1 = normal)

Every 10 seconds the hue is increased by 1 degree and the saturation
is changed by a sinus over the hue. The value remains fixed. The
default values are chosen such that all pastel tints are visited, but
these can of course be customized:

Usage: gfloatbg [options]
where options are:
-help
-value < float> (default 0.87)
-satmid < float> (default 0.375)
-satvar < float> (default 0.125)
-fase < float> (default 0.25)
value, (satmid-satvar) and (satmid+satvar) must be between 0 and 1

FVWM-Crystal aims to create an easy to use, eye-candy but also powerful desktop environment for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems.
FVWM-Crystal uses following programs: FVWM as a window manager and "main core", ROX-Filer as file manager (manages icons on the desktop), xterm, aterm, mrxvt or urxvt as terminal emulators, MPD or XMMS as music players (theres built-in support for controlling these programs), and several other tools for different functions, like setting a wallpaper or making screen shots.
Main features:
- transparent elements of the interface: panels, menus, dialogs (pseudo-transparency, doesnt show windows underneath)
- window decorations, panel/menu colorsets and desktop wallpaper changeable from the main menu; choice saved for next X sessions
- flexible window decorations: can have different titlebar buttons layout, pixmaps, button functions
- different "desktop layouts" (panel placement and functions, desktop functions, window icons/thumbnails), changeable from the menu
- advanced keyboard support: keybindings for controlling the desktop switching, window management (moving, resizing, focusing, basic operations like minimalization or closing) - nearly 90 different keybindings
- support for controlling music players, using the keyboard or panel buttons and menus; currently MPD and XMMS are supported
- advanced support of the terminal windows: special "QuakeConsole" terminal accessible by an Alt+` (grave) keystroke similar to the console found in FPP games; terminals can be opened using RMB on the desktop; terminal windows dont release focus for newly opened windows (by default)
- a Python script for generating different panels and menus with installed applications - automatically finds programs in $PATH and creates specified menus and panels
- support for nearly 250 different applications - icons, menu/panel database entries, window styles
- different language support using gettext
Features for advanced users
- all FVWM configuration divided into small files in a simple directory structure
- special functions for loading configuration files - allows FVWM configuration files placed in different directories (for example system-wide and user-wide); user files are searched before system-wide files (directory structure must be preserved), first found file is loaded
- simple and easy to use system of "user preferences", adds to the configuration files ability to remember different user choices and recall them at any moment, usually at the startup of X session
- support for system-wide configuration in /etc/X11/fvwm/fvwm-crystal directory as well as user configuration in ~/.fvwm directory - changes in configuration files can be preserved between package updates
- special files called "recipes" - similar to "standard" FVWM configuration model (one configuration - one file), allows for different configurations in the same package (for example different music players changeable during runtime)
- support for different icon themes and sizes (similar to /usr/share/icons directory), included many icons in 22x22, 32x32 and 48x48 sizes