You'll find on this page patches and scripts I use to make my life easier or add a bit eye candy to my desktop. Everything here is given as is. Do not expect things to work. If they do, I'm happy for you, if not, you're on your own.
grotbckgd stands for gnome rotate background. This is a small script that I have written that rotates the Gnome 2 wallpaper using gconftool. It can be run by hand or from a cron job. No needs for a special daemon. It can take wallpapers in directories, or from a file containing the list of wallpapers to use.
To use it, drop it in your path and use
$ grotbckgd -hto see some usage info. You can add a crontab like
*/15 * * * * grotbckgd -r /path/to/backgroundsusing
$ crontab -eto have your background change every 15 minutes. Note that the script takes only png or jpg file by default. Use the option -t to change that.
you can get it here
These are patch I backported or I taken from other peoples. For now, all these patch are Debian-ised, it means that if you use Debian (wich everybody should ;) ), you can easily build new patched packages.
The original patch can be found on the page of it's author. It creates nice drop shadows arround popup menus. See the author page for more information.
You can find the debianized version of the patch here. To build a new libgtk package for debian, apt-get the source of libgtk2.0-0, drop the decompressed patch in the debian/patches directory in the sources and rebuild the package.
The patch can be found on the page of it's author. It adds a usefull tool bar with bookmarks to the FileSelector Gtk widget. See the author page for more information.
You can find the debianized version of the patch here. To build a new libgtk package for debian, apt-get the source of libgtk2.0-0, drop the decompressed patch in the debian/patches directory in the sources and rebuild the package.
I backported this patch from Nautilus 2.3.3 to Nautilus 2.2.3.1. This feature is still discuted (as of the 12th June) on the mailing lists, but it seems rather stable here. You can get the patch here. Note that the root on the screenshots are ones that I added myself editing the source code. There is for now no way of adding roots at runtime.
To build a new nautilus package for debian, apt-get the source of nautilus, drop the decompressed patch in the debian/patches directory in the sources and rebuild the package.