Free xft software for linux

Mrxvt that was previously named as materm is a lightweight and powerful multi-tabbed X terminal emulator based on the popular rxvt and aterm.
Main features:
- multi-tab support
- runtime dynamic tab title
- session support for each tab
- input broadcasting for all tabs
- user configurable keyboard shortcuts
- translucent window support
- pseudo-transparent background per terminal
- pseudo-transparent scrollbar/menubar/tabbar
- background color tinting
- color text shadow
- off-focus background fading
- NeXT/rxvt/xterm/SGI/plain style scrollbar
- user supplied background image per terminal (jpeg/png/xpm)
- user supplied background image for scrollbar/menubar/tabbar (jpeg/png/xpm)
- only depends on X, no GTK, no Qt
- small and fast
- freetype font (xft)
- XIM and multi-languages (Chinese/Korea/Japanese) suppport
- multiple platforms
- utmp/wtmp/lastlog logging

IRMix is an audio mixer for Lirc. It uses the Lirc infra-red receiver system to provide an imitation of a TVs on-screen display, and handles making audio volumes controllable from an infra-red remote control. If your X server supports the Xft extension, Irmix will use it to add a nice translucent effect to the OSD window.
This is my first Linux project, so please feel free to provide me with feedback and constructive criticism.
Main features:
- Xinerama support (thanks to Mark Lipscombe)
- A new command: select, which selects a given channel, and displays it without adjusting its level. (Thanks to Maciek Pasternacki)
- ALSA Support (thanks to Fran Taylor)

Taskbar is a small taskbar utility for X11 with advanced features.
It supports a program launcher menu, task list, and tray notification area. It will work with any EWMH window manager (Sawfish, Metacity, KWM, etc.).
It is designed to be lightweight yet fully functional.
Main features:
- Docking taskbar aligned to bottom or top of screen
- Customizable start menu (program launcher)
- Taskbar notification area with tooltip support (area is populated via plugins)
- Support for Xft anti-aliased fonts

Equinox Desktop Environment (shortly EDE) is small desktop environment, builted to be simple and fast.
Comparing to other desktop environments, EDE is much faster and smaller in memory space (EDEs window manager use less memory than xterm).
The word "equinox" comes from the Latin for "equal night". The equinoxes in March and September are the two occasions each year when the day and the night are of equal duration.
For measuring the length of a day, sunrise is the moment when the sun is half-above the horizon and sunset is the moment when the sun is half-under the horizon. Using this definition, the length of the day (and the night) is precisely 12 hours at an equinox.
Main features:
- desktop with icons and wallpaper;
- Xft font anti-aliasing;
- taskbar with configurable menu, cpu status, easy keyboard switching;
- theming;
- localization;
Graphical front-end for:
- xscreensaver configuration;
- software installation (.rpm, .deb, .tgz);
- time and time-zone configuration;
- fast file and directory serch utility;

Major Features:

1. Better Thunderbird integration
2. emailtask linkage
3. Integration with the Thunderbird address book
4. iMIP support (meeting invitations)
5. Improved CalDAV support
6. Cached calendar support for offline calendar use
7. Device synchronization

Enhancements:

• Events spanning days now have a visual indicator indicating them as connected events
• When reloading a remote calendar a progress indicator is now shown
• The so-called "minimonth" (small calendar month in the upper left) has been given a visual overhaul
• The calendar views (day, week, multiweek, month) have been given a visual overhaul
• The today pane can now be displayed in calendar mode and task mode as well
• CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved
• iMip/iTip support (support for email invitations) has been greatly improved
• The application stability and memory consumption has been greatly improved
• Lightning 0.9 is intended to be the last release for the Thunderbird 2 series. For the future we are planning to integrate Lightning fully into the upcoming Thunderbird 3 release
• A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge website

Requirements:

• Software Requirements Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
• • Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher with the following libraries or packages:
  • glibc 2.3.2 or higher
  • XFree86-3.3.6 or higher
  • gtk+2.0 or higher
  • fontconfig (also known as xft)
  • libstdc++5 (Many modern Linux distributions only package libstdc++6, which is incompatible with Lightning. Therefore please install the package "libstdc++5" or "compat-libstdc++" on your system before installing Lightning)
• Minimum Hardware
• • Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater)
  • 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
  • 52 MB hard drive space

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)

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.

PyPanel is a lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C for X11 window managers. It can be easily customized to match any desktop theme or taste.
PyPanel works with WindowMaker and EWMH compliant WMs (Kahakai, Openbox, PekWM, FVWM, etc). PyPanel is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2.
Main features:
- Transparency with shading/tinting
- Panel dimensions, location and layout
- Font type and colors with Xft support
- Button events/actions
- Clock and workspace name display
- System Tray (Notification Area)
- Autohiding