 | GEX - Gtk+ Environment for X-Windows |
GEX is still in BETA stage, but I would call it already usable. Not all
features are implemented yet (but that will never be the case ;-))
GEX is a small environment for the X-Window system. It's goal is a small
set of requirements and a not that big footprint in memory usage.
GEX is not yet addressed to “normal” users,
but to people like software developers, who like/need to use the X11
window system and need the resources of their computer for more important
things.
The biggest known bug of GEX is the non-existing documentation. Currently
there is the C-source and a sample configuration file. This is not that
much and should definitely be fixed soon, but ...
The Base Package contains everything, which is required to have a simple
and working X-Window environment. The following list describes the main
components of the base package shortly.
- GEX.sh
-
This is a simple startup script, which calls xinit with some
arguments.
- gex
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This is the X11 client. Its task is to start the rest ;-). It runs
gxwallpaper, gxpanel, the selected window-manager and a user
defined shell script, which can be used to do some very special
configuration stuff.
- gxwallpaper
-
This little program uses the power of gdk-pixbuf
to beautify the desktop with a wallpaper. It can read any file
format known by gdk-pixbuf and is able to use one
of four drawing modes: tile, center, scale, aspect. Additionally it
is possible to fill the desktop with a selected color (specified by
a name or hex value).
- gxpanel
-
This is the most important component of GEX. It is not that fair
developed yet, but it is definitly usable. As you can see at the
section, the panel is
quite well configurable. E.g. the number panels is unlimited, there
are different types (stretched to a defined size or just as big as
required by the items) and the orientation can be vertical or
horizontal.
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