typhon

A slim and themeable OpenGL-based dashboard and program launcher. It's meant to be easily used on Linux HTPCs or as netbook frontend. It can be used as emulator launcher and program launcher. and has picture support for background and preview pictures and icons. It also has a builtin opengl ffmpeg video player, which can be used to preview programs or emulators/roms or simply to watch some videos. There's also an optional autoscreenshotmode, which creates automatically a previewpicture of the launched app after user configured time. Themes of other frontends can easily be used with typhon. Everything can be configured by the user, including colours, whole colourthemes, font, fontsize (any ttf font will do), optional sound effects, optional 3d icons (using glut), background and previewpictures. The whole screen or also just several parts of it, including the video, can be rotated into any direction and the position can be saved into the theme config. System-installed screensavers or some video files can also be used as background using compositing/ transparency.

There are also several X11 functions which can be en-/disabled, like hide/show mouse, en-/disable window decoration, show on all desktops etc.

typhon also works fine with compiz and can be controlled with mouse and/or keyboard (and therefore also with remotes) It also has (atm basic) wiimote control support.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: -ftgl -devIL -libXrender, libXrandr optional: - freeglut - sdl-mixer - ffmpeg - openal/freealut - cwiid optional external: - screensavers - p3textractor - screenshotprogram (default is "scrot")

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