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Applications repackaged for easy use in ROX

• Rox-Wrappers -- App Dirs that load up linux applications

Additional ROX Software

This is software generally written with the ROX Desktop in mind. Usually uses one of the ROX Libraries (below)

• RETicker - Watch your favorite news-ticker (rss/rdf) in your panel.
• MPlayer-ROX - A simple wrapper for mplayer for easier watching movies and using subtitles.
• MagickThumbnail to generate thumbnails for all filetypes which ImageMagick can handle, and gimp's .xcf files too.
• Rename - Little app written in Ruby, to rename files and dirs recursively using ?Reg Exps. You can test the resulting names before apply the action.
• DevWatch - (experimental) little app written in Python, which is supposed to update a panel or the pinboard (add or remove an icon) when a storage device gets added or removed by HAL.
• Terminal - A terminal emulator wrapper.
• Menu - An applet providing an application start menu for the ROX panel.
• XDG-Menu - A panel applet that displays an application menu button. The menus it builds fit the XDG Menu Specification published by freedesktop.org.

Audio/Video

Songer

I'm new to Linux... which distribution should I get?

There are many to choose from: Ubuntu, Mandriva (formerly Mandrake), Fedora and SuSE all have good reputations for being user friendly. See below for some more.

These pages gives detailed installation instructions for installing ROX on various distributions.

Start here!

The easiest way to install ROX is by downloading the ROX-All package.
Alternatively, choose your distribution from the list below to get packages specially built for your system.

• ROX-All (works on most systems except Windows)

See the Installation FAQ for more help.

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-Filer — the file manager at the core of the ROX desktop
• OroboROX — a lightweight Window Manager for ROX
• Archive — create and unpack archive files (supported formats include zip, tar, gz and bz).
• ROX-Session — a simple session manager for the ROX Desktop.
• ROX-Lib — contains shared code used by other ROX applications
• Edit — a simple text editor
• ROX-All — a single archive containing launchers for most of the ROX applications
• AddApp — create ROX application launchers

Audio/Video

Recording, editing and playback of music and videos.

• AlgoScore — Interactive graphical score for algorithmic composition
• Jammin — MPD playlist randomizer
• mplayer-rox — Wraper around mplayer
• Mp3Ogg2Wav — A small rox utility to convert .ogg and .mp3 files to .wav files.
• Ripper — A CD Ripper/Encoder
• Volume — a Volume control Panel Applet and Mixer Application
• MusicBox — A Music Player
• VideoThumbnail — Provides thumbnail images for video files.
• Album — converts 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.

• Screensaver — Control screensaver settings with ROX-Session
• XDGStart — Edits XDG autostart entries
• Autostart — Freedesktop.org autostart manager
• Font — font selection and smoothing configuration
• Appearance — GTK and Icon theme configuration
• Time — sets time and date
• XPlanet — pinboard backdrop application
• Resolution — change screen resolution dynamically
• Mouse — mouse configuration applet
• Keyboard — keyboard configuration applet
• Gamma — set the gamma correction for your screen
• MIME-Editor — change the rules for guessing a file's type
• Wallpaper — can be used to place an image on your desktop background

Development tools

Tools for software development, version control etc.

• Zero2Bundle — create self-contained bundles from a Zero Install feed

Educational

Teaching software, and programs for children.

• Reinteract-ROX — a system for interactive experimentation with python

Games

Just for fun.

• ROX-MAME — MAME frontend

Graphics

Viewing and editing of photographs and diagrams

• RAWThumbnail — Generates thumbnails for the Digital RAW files
• Picky — an Image Viewer
• ComicThumb — Generates thumbnails for comix archives (cbr,cbz,cbt)

Internet

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

• Beluga — Wireless network manager
• ROX-Samba — browse Samba networks via FUSE
• Ratatosk — A Jabber client for the ROX desktop
• WiFi — a Wireless quality monitor applet
• Postal — An Applet to Check IMAP, POP and MBOX accounts for new mail
• DownloadManager — download manager for Fetch, limiting the number of simultaneous downloads
• Launch — This provides facilities for launching URLs.
• Mail — This applet provides mail/no mail notification by its icon and also serves as a launcher for your prefered mail client.
• Fetch — This program acts as a download handler for ROX-Filer.

Monitoring

System monitors (CPU load, network activity, etc)

• SysBars — show CPU load etc in bars on the panel
• WiFi — a Wireless quality monitor applet
• HddTemp — a front end to "hddtemp" daemon showing temperature of hard drives
• Lithium — a Battery Status Monitor Applet
• System — process and disk monitor
• NetStat — This applet displays the current network activity
• Mem — This applet displays the current memory usage and the current swap space usage.
• Load — This applet displays the load average of your system (a measure of how much work it is trying to do).
• Tail — This program displays the contents of a text file, updating as the text file is updated.
• FreeFS — Monitor free space on a file system

Other

Programs that don't fit in any other category.

• XDGSupport — creates SendTo items for .desktop files
• ROX-Trasher — Trashcan application for the ROX Filer and Desktop
• Thumbs — simple thumbnail manager
• XAttr — view or edit extended file attributes
• Execute — GUI to run programs by command / run programs as different user
• roxunzip.sh — shell script that unpacks lots of archives
• Trashcan — a trashcan that complies with the freedesktop-trash-spec
• ROXTerm — Like gnome-terminal without Gnome baggage
• Depend — A utility for checking dependencies of other ROX utilities.
• Rubbish — a very simple rubbish bin.
• Trash — a unified trashcan application for ROX.
• ROX-thumbnailers — It generates thumbnails for ROX-Filer using various thumbnailers
• RoxISO — Create and burn data CD images.
• Memo — alarm clock and reminder list
• Contacts — a Personal Information Manager (address book)
• AppFactory — This 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.

• SysBars — show CPU load etc in bars on the panel
• DevTray — shows devices in the panel
• WiFi — a Wireless quality monitor applet
• Weather — shows the weather
• TaskTray — shows open windows as icons in a growing widget
• RETicker — newsticker for the rox-panel
• XDG-Menu — a menu applet
• HddTemp — a front end to "hddtemp" daemon showing temperature of hard drives
• PanelClock — a simple clock for the panel
• ToggleDesktop — Toggle Show/Hide Window
• SystemTrayN — notification area applet
• Lithium — a Battery Status Monitor Applet
• Tasklist — a panel applet that shows a list of currently open applications
• SystemTray — freedesktop system tray for ROX-Filer
• Pager — an application and panel applet that shows a miniature view of your desktop.
• Postal — An Applet to Check IMAP, POP and MBOX accounts for new mail
• Menu — An Application Launch Menu
• Volume — a Volume control Panel Applet and Mixer Application
• NetStat — This applet displays the current network activity
• Mem — This applet displays the current memory usage and the current swap space usage.
• Mail — This applet provides mail/no mail notification by its icon and also serves as a launcher for your prefered mail client.
• Load — This applet displays the load average of your system (a measure of how much work it is trying to do).
• FreeFS — Monitor free space on a file system
• Clock — A clock applet.

Text processing

Text editors and processing utilities.

• Vixn — A vi-like GUI text editor for programmers
• Diff — This program displays a coloured context diff between two files.
• Tail — This program displays the contents of a text file, updating as the text file is updated.
• Edit — a simple text editor
• Find — A Graphical Find-In-Files Utility

Theme

A theme changes the way your desktop looks.

• Lindorm-Flat — A flatter version of the Lindorm theme
• Lindorm — OroboROX theme based on the "Oroborus" theme
• Simplistix — A slim theme for OroboROX
• ROX App Icons — a collection of application icons created by Geoff Youngs
• IndigoMagic — IndigoMagic icon theme for ROX
• Tango Theme — the Tango icon theme (adapted for ROX)
• Xaguar Theme — OroboROX theme based on ale-jaguar
• Noia-ROX — Noia-ROX
• ROX-SVG — ROX-SVG
• Uniquicons-ROX — icons created for pezhammer and adapted to ROX
• More themes — External links to themes

Library

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

• librox-perl — perl implementation of ROX-Lib
• ROX-Rib — a Ruby version of ROX-Lib
• ROX-Lib — contains shared code used by other ROX applications
• ROX-CLib — C library for ROX

Adding your own software

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