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If you're not sure where to start, try ROX-All. If you want a page of links you can drag to AddApp, try the Zero Install software index.

Core software

The core software is a good minimal set of programs with which to start.

  • ROX-Filerthe file manager at the core of the ROX desktop
  • OroboROXa lightweight Window Manager for ROX
  • Archivecreate and unpack archive files (supported formats include zip, tar, gz and bz).
  • ROX-Sessiona simple session manager for the ROX Desktop.
  • ROX-Libcontains shared code used by other ROX applications
  • Edita simple text editor
  • ROX-Alla single archive containing launchers for most of the ROX applications
  • AddAppcreate ROX application launchers

Audio/Video

Recording, editing and playback of music and videos.

  • AlgoScoreInteractive graphical score for algorithmic composition
  • JamminMPD playlist randomizer
  • mplayer-roxWraper around mplayer
  • Mp3Ogg2WavA small rox utility to convert .ogg and .mp3 files to .wav files.
  • RipperA CD Ripper/Encoder
  • Volumea Volume control Panel Applet and Mixer Application
  • MusicBoxA Music Player
  • VideoThumbnailProvides thumbnail images for video files.
  • Albumconverts collections of MP3 files into an application directory that will play the files using xmms

Configuration

Programs used to change the system or desktop configuration.

  • ScreensaverControl screensaver settings with ROX-Session
  • XDGStartEdits XDG autostart entries
  • AutostartFreedesktop.org autostart manager
  • Fontfont selection and smoothing configuration
  • AppearanceGTK and Icon theme configuration
  • Timesets time and date
  • XPlanetpinboard backdrop application
  • Resolutionchange screen resolution dynamically
  • Mousemouse configuration applet
  • Keyboardkeyboard configuration applet
  • Gammaset the gamma correction for your screen
  • MIME-Editorchange the rules for guessing a file's type
  • Wallpapercan be used to place an image on your desktop background

Development tools

Tools for software development, version control etc.

  • Zero2Bundlecreate self-contained bundles from a Zero Install feed

Educational

Teaching software, and programs for children.

  • Reinteract-ROXa system for interactive experimentation with python

Games

Just for fun.

Graphics

Viewing and editing of photographs and diagrams

  • RAWThumbnailGenerates thumbnails for the Digital RAW files
  • Pickyan Image Viewer
  • ComicThumbGenerates thumbnails for comix archives (cbr,cbz,cbt)

Internet

Software for accessing the Internet (web browsers, email, etc).

  • BelugaWireless network manager
  • ROX-Sambabrowse Samba networks via FUSE
  • RatatoskA Jabber client for the ROX desktop
  • WiFia Wireless quality monitor applet
  • PostalAn Applet to Check IMAP, POP and MBOX accounts for new mail
  • DownloadManagerdownload manager for Fetch, limiting the number of simultaneous downloads
  • LaunchThis provides facilities for launching URLs.
  • MailThis applet provides mail/no mail notification by its icon and also serves as a launcher for your prefered mail client.
  • FetchThis program acts as a download handler for ROX-Filer.

Monitoring

System monitors (CPU load, network activity, etc)

  • SysBarsshow CPU load etc in bars on the panel
  • WiFia Wireless quality monitor applet
  • HddTempa front end to "hddtemp" daemon showing temperature of hard drives
  • Lithiuma Battery Status Monitor Applet
  • Systemprocess and disk monitor
  • NetStatThis applet displays the current network activity
  • MemThis applet displays the current memory usage and the current swap space usage.
  • LoadThis applet displays the load average of your system (a measure of how much work it is trying to do).
  • TailThis program displays the contents of a text file, updating as the text file is updated.
  • FreeFSMonitor free space on a file system

Other

Programs that don't fit in any other category.

  • XDGSupportcreates SendTo items for .desktop files
  • ROX-TrasherTrashcan application for the ROX Filer and Desktop
  • Thumbssimple thumbnail manager
  • XAttrview or edit extended file attributes
  • ExecuteGUI to run programs by command / run programs as different user
  • roxunzip.shshell script that unpacks lots of archives
  • Trashcana trashcan that complies with the freedesktop-trash-spec
  • ROXTermLike gnome-terminal without Gnome baggage
  • DependA utility for checking dependencies of other ROX utilities.
  • Rubbisha very simple rubbish bin.
  • Trasha unified trashcan application for ROX.
  • ROX-thumbnailersIt generates thumbnails for ROX-Filer using various thumbnailers
  • RoxISOCreate and burn data CD images.
  • Memoalarm clock and reminder list
  • Contactsa Personal Information Manager (address book)
  • AppFactoryThis program automates the creation of ROX wrappers for non-ROX programs.

Panel applets

A ROX panel applet is a small program that runs inside the panel.

  • SysBarsshow CPU load etc in bars on the panel
  • DevTrayshows devices in the panel
  • WiFia Wireless quality monitor applet
  • Weathershows the weather
  • TaskTrayshows open windows as icons in a growing widget
  • RETickernewsticker for the rox-panel
  • XDG-Menua menu applet
  • HddTempa front end to "hddtemp" daemon showing temperature of hard drives
  • PanelClocka simple clock for the panel
  • ToggleDesktopToggle Show/Hide Window
  • SystemTrayNnotification area applet
  • Lithiuma Battery Status Monitor Applet
  • Tasklista panel applet that shows a list of currently open applications
  • SystemTrayfreedesktop system tray for ROX-Filer
  • Pageran application and panel applet that shows a miniature view of your desktop.
  • PostalAn Applet to Check IMAP, POP and MBOX accounts for new mail
  • MenuAn Application Launch Menu
  • Volumea Volume control Panel Applet and Mixer Application
  • NetStatThis applet displays the current network activity
  • MemThis applet displays the current memory usage and the current swap space usage.
  • MailThis applet provides mail/no mail notification by its icon and also serves as a launcher for your prefered mail client.
  • LoadThis applet displays the load average of your system (a measure of how much work it is trying to do).
  • FreeFSMonitor free space on a file system
  • ClockA clock applet.

Text processing

Text editors and processing utilities.

  • VixnA vi-like GUI text editor for programmers
  • DiffThis program displays a coloured context diff between two files.
  • TailThis program displays the contents of a text file, updating as the text file is updated.
  • Edita simple text editor
  • FindA Graphical Find-In-Files Utility

Theme

A theme changes the way your desktop looks.

Library

A library contains shared code that is used by other programs.

  • librox-perlperl implementation of ROX-Lib
  • ROX-Riba Ruby version of ROX-Lib
  • ROX-Libcontains shared code used by other ROX applications
  • ROX-CLibC library for ROX

Adding your own software

You don't need to edit this page manually. Instead, create a new software page (create content->software in the side panel) and give it the category you want it to appear in. If you don't have an account, ask on the mailing list (sorry; it's the only way to stop the spammers!).

Canon RAW thumbnailer

I wrote a ROX-Filer helper to generate thumbnails for the Canon RAW files (*.crw, *.cr2) from a Canon digital camera:

http://www.vide.memoire.free.fr/RAWThumbnail

I would be happy to see it on this page.

I cannot find the "create content->software" in the panel or a way to register...

Canon RAW thumbnailer

You should have an account now. Self-registration had to be disabled due to spammers using it; I've updated the instructions!

PS: you might be interested in Python's 'tempfile' module.

FTP Client?

Would this be the right place to suggest that a ROX ftp client would be nice?

Create content?

The Create Content link seems to have gone missing (I haven't forgotten to log in!). Does the feature need to be enabled again after the last upgrade?

Create content

OK, I think I've got it back now!

It isn't working properly, at

It isn't working properly, at least not for software. When I tried to add SysBars I got an error, and most of the data had been left out when I went to edit it. I tried again, got a preview this time, which was OK, but when I clicked Save the same thing happened. The error is:

user warning: Column 'field_home_page_title' cannot be null query: INSERT INTO content_type_software (vid, nid, field_summary_value, field_current_stable_version_value, field_current_testing_version_value, field_home_page_url, field_home_page_title, field_home_page_attributes, field_primary_authors_value, field_zeroinstall_uri_url, field_zeroinstall_uri_title, field_zeroinstall_uri_attributes, field_downloads_url, field_downloads_title, field_downloads_attributes, field_changelog_url, field_changelog_title, field_changelog_attributes) VALUES (940, 916, 'Panel applet for displaying system resource usage info', '0.0.1', '0.0.1', 'http://www.realh.ukfsn.org/rox.html#sysbars', NULL, NULL, 'Tony Houghton', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'http://www.realh.ukfsn.org/rox.html#sysbars', NULL, NULL, 'http://repo.or.cz/w/SysBars.git?a=log', NULL, NULL) in /home/e/4/8/1646/1646/public_html/desktop/sites/all/modules/cck/content.module on line 1065.

Database problems

Fixed, I think.

I tried creating a new URL field, and noticed that they were all NULL fields, whereas the existing ones were NOT NULL. So, I altered all the existing columns to allow NULL. Seems to work.

Can't edit SysBars

I want to edit some things about SysBars but I don't have an Edit tab for it. I guess you edited it manually for me because of the previous problem and now Drupal thinks it's your page and I don't have permission.

The content type was wrong

The content type was wrong for some reason. It's back to HTML now.

XDGStart

I've renamed AutoStart to XDGStart. Please could you add an icon for it. I've made my own to replace the one I copied from something else and uploaded a PNG to http://www.realh.ukfsn.org/rox/xdgstart.png.

XDGStart icon

Done.

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