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New wrappers

A much improved selection of ROX wrappers is now being maintained by the ROX-Wrappers project.

The Joy of ROX - Wrappers page has some more advanced wrappers, plus hints on creating your own.

Old wrappers

Wrappers-1.0.3.tgz [ Mirrors ]
20-Jun-2002 Added Opera and SidPlay wrappers and converted icons to PNG format.
27-Jul-2001 New release with tooltips and homepage information.
04-Aug-2001 Gimp wrapper will try to reuse an already-running copy of the Gimp if possible.

This archive contains a collection of wrapper applications which make normal applications behave like ROX ones.

Creating your own wrapper applications is easy:

1. Create a directory with the name you want to use, eg 'Dia'.
2. Create an executable file called 'AppRun' inside it containing something like:

           #!/bin/sh
           exec dia "$@"
   

3. Put a PNG icon for the application in a file called '.DirIcon' (or use the filer's 'Set Icon...' menu item to do it for you).

Take a look inside these example applications (Shift click on them to open them) for some more advanced ideas...

You could also use Stephen Watson's Desktop2App application, which builds ROX wrappers from GNOME or KDE .desktop files, or his AppFactory utility for creating wrappers by filling in a dialog box.

ROX project admin and website maintainer : Thomas Leonard [ GPG key ]
Please send questions about the ROX applications to the mailing lists, not directly to me.
Emails sent directly to me will likely be either ignored or forwarded to the list.