ROX-All

Author: Thomas Leonard
Version: 0.4 (size: 382 K)
Keywords: ROX Download

ROX-All is a single archive containing launchers for most of the ROX applications. It contains everything you need to get started with ROX. Because actually putting all the software in this archive would make it very big and quickly out of date, it will download the latest versions of programs when you run them the first time. Therefore, you will need a network connection (but only when downloading or upgrading programs).

1. Download the latest tgz archive from this page:

   https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7023&package_id=161987

2. Unpack the archive. Normally clicking on it in your existing desktop envionment will do this. If not, open a 'terminal emulator' (like xterm, gnome-terminal, or konsole) and type this command:

   $ tar xzf ROX-All-0.4.tgz

3. Read the README file inside the ROX-All directory for more information. The steps are:

   • If the 0launch command is not yet installed, look inside the 0launch directory and read the INSTALL.html file inside first.

   • Then, run the rox script to download and start ROX-Filer. This will open a directory viewer showing you all the other applications.

     

Programs provided:

• Archive (create and extract archives in zip, tgz and other formats)
• Edit (text editor)
• Find (search for files containing some text)
• Memo (alarm clock and TODO list)
• Pager (switch between multiple desktop workspaces)
• ROX-Filer (the file manager)
• ROX-Session (set things up on login)
• Audio
  • Album
  • Music Box
  • Ripper
  • Volume
• Configuration
  • Add App (get more applications from the Internet)
  • AppFactory (create your own application wrappers)
  • Desktop2App (turn .desktop files into ROX wrappers; not needed with ROX-Filer 2.4)
  • Gamma (change the monitor's gamma setting)
  • Keyboard
  • MIME-Editor (rules for recognising file types)
  • Mouse
  • Orobo ROX (window manager)
  • Resolution (change the screen resolution)
  • Wallpaper (set the desktop background image)
• Games
  • Barrage
  • LBreakout
  • LGeneral
  • LMarbles
  • LPairs
  • Penguin Command
• Network
  • Download Manager
  • Fetch
  • Launch
  • Mail
  • NetStat (network monitor applet)
• Utils
  • Clock
  • Diff (compare text files)
  • FreeFS (applet showing free space on a filesystem)
  • Load (applet showing how busy the system is)
  • Mem (applet showing free memory)
  • Menu
  • Tail (watches log files)
• Video
  • Thumbs
  • Video Thumbnail

Note on platform-specific packages

Many of the programs above are written in Python and will therefore work on all systems. Those written in C (including ROX-Filer itself) will only work if a binary is available for your platform. If no binary for your platform is available, please consider creating one for future users. At the time of writing (2005-10-26), Linux-x86 and PPC binaries are available.