xplanetFX renders high quality wallpapers of mother earth on your desktop. An extensive GUI (GTK) provides a lot of features and settings. Various templates place the planet inside different scenes and make shure your desktop never gets boring again. With realtime light, shadows and clouds!

traGtor is a graphical user interface for the awesome conversion tool ffmpeg. With multi streams, presets, multi language and a lot of other features traGtor is a handy tool for converting all audio and video formats through ffmpeg. traGtor is based on GTK and Python.

Calf studiogear is an extensive and high quality plugin pack for professional audio production under Linux. It provides a lot of synthesizers, effects and signal processing for the use with LV2 audio production suites (like Ardour) or as stand-alone through JACK.

Calf with all of its new features and processors isn't officially released by now so you have to grab the GIT-repository from sourceforge.net until we are ready for a stable release.

» calf.sourceforge.net

guess is a tool to launch (and kill) different setups of programs. It was invented to startup all needed synthesizers, audio suites, MIDI sequencers and stuff with the correct source files on the right desktop for a single audio production with just one click.

xplanetFX - series: Mit xplanetFX ganze Bilderserien erstellen

oRainge Theme: GTK-, GDM-, Metacity-, Icons-Theme

oRainge gDesklets: Sprechende Uhren, Kalender, System-Widgets (manual)

photogen:c SVG-Icons: Diverse High-Quality-Icons im SVG-Format

traffick: Serverumgebungen testen. Durch skalierbares Threading erzeugt traffick Unmengen an Suchanfragen und Webseitenaufrufen, um ein hohes Maß an Vorratsdaten Netzwerkauslastung zu simulieren.

GIMP Plug-In “Moderated Blur” for Tilt Shift and Depth-Of-Field Effects

stuff (de) guess calf traGtor xplanetFX

Archiv der Kategorie ‘xplanetFX‘

xplanetFX: template “Eschaton” updated with style “Garbage”

Mittwoch, den 11. Januar 2012

So, Voßhage. Glücklich? Besser mit Version 2.4.x benutzen

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xplanetFX 2.4.4: bugs in autostart and libwww-perl

Mittwoch, den 9. November 2011 
Version 2.4.4:
* libwww-perl as dependency in control file and as target in --setup
* Bug in creating autostart entries in GNOME and KDE if xplanetFX is the first
  application installed in a fresh home folder

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xplanetFX in der LinuxUser Juli 2011

Mittwoch, den 9. November 2011

Erm… what?! xplanetFX hat’s im Juli tatsächlich in die LinuxUser geschafft?! !1 Unfassbar! Geht ja dann wohl nahtlos weiter mit Starrummel und Groupies pimpern. Ich glaub’, ich muss mal zum Frisör.

Category Notizblog, xplanetFX | 5 comments »

xplanetFX 2.4.2: Bug on some ImageMagick’s with atmosphere

Mittwoch, den 2. November 2011 
Version 2.4.2:
* Bug with different ImageMagick versions: atmosphere was blurred above the
  earths edge and cut on the layers dimensions

Thanks a lot to Flav for the report and his help!

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xplanetFX: template “Halloween” updated

Montag, den 31. Oktober 2011

The stars in the background looked kind of … wtf?! And finally we have copyleft details in the screenshots again .)

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xplanetFX: Template Special – Halloween!

Sonntag, den 30. Oktober 2011

For the ones who love to observe this strange happening born in Ireland and borrowed by the U.S. guys – here it is: our planet as a stupid looking pumpkin with a silly plug in his head orbited by a small – erm… basketball? Whatever. Have a good time while celebrating!

Please note: this template will only be available for a couple of days – like the Christmas Special.

Damn.. I’ve forgotten to mention some of the original artists of the base images in these screenshots – sorry for that! The original templates and the template information on the website of course do have the copyleft information included.

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xplanetFX 2.4.1: fixes in greek language file

Montag, den 24. Oktober 2011 
Version 2.4.1:
* Fixes in greek language file - many thanks to vagrale13!

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xplanetFX: new templates “Art” and “xplanetFX”

Montag, den 24. Oktober 2011

To demonstrate the new features of the render engine in xplanetFX I created two new templates relying on the version 2.4.0 (but working in older versions, too – just without the new candy stuff). The first one is “Art” which generates a “wooden” sphere that is composed over the original earth and the other one is a xplanetFX branded template referencing to the start screen of the xplanetFX GUI. This one generates a “realistic” mirror of the earth with clouds underneath the globe.

The main new feature in the rendering engine is the ability of templates to hook in the render process and to execute custom functions with a limited set of commands inside a sandbox. So after every step xplanetFX has done it asks if the template wants to do some rendering stuff, too. This will be the base for a lot of cool effects and more realistic lighting stuff for example.

Although the template processes are run in a sandboxed environment with just a few commands like xplanet, convert aso I recommend to avoid using templates you stumble upon out there in the wild that contain a “process” file. Templates aren’t even allowed to copy, move or delete stuff but better safe than sorry ,)

Here are two other tests I used in the development that aren’t available as templates: clouds floating over a perforated earth and subtle to harsh color manipulations separated by a dynamically created mask (the original earth swirled around a bit).

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xplanetFX 2.4.0: New template features & XFCE >= 4.6 fixed

Sonntag, den 23. Oktober 2011 
Version 2.4.0:
* New feature: templates can hook in the rendering process to execute graphical
  processings in a sandboxed environment with reduced binary access
* New feature: xplanetFX --geometry auto
* New feature: xplanetFX --templates (gives a list of all installed templates)
* New feature: xplanetFX --debug
* XFCE >= 4.6 uses xfconf backend
* Environment variable determination transfered in encapsuled function calls
* Debug tries to determine the installed distribution
* Debug throws information about the installed ImageMagick version
* Fixes in greek language file - many thanks to vagrale13!
* ASCII Art in --help .)

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xplanetFX: new theme “Eschaton”

Montag, den 10. Oktober 2011

Just as a reference to my actual conversation with Yours-Truly (de) in the depths of this blog ,) Technically far from perfect so perhaps there are some updates in the future when the optical flaws bug me to harsh. And perhaps there are some other styles in the future – Vossi (or here) always wanted to see tons of astro-garbage gyrating around our planet – this theme seems to be the perfect container for that ^^

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