About
Nitrogen is a background browser and setter for X windows. It is written in C++ using the gtkmm toolkit. It can be used in two modes: browser and recall. Nitrogen has been in development for over 2 years, due to real life and laziness. For more info, check out the features section.
Latest News
Released 1.3 on Mon, 12 May 2008. This release implements lazy loading of thumbnails, and fixes some bugs, esp with odd architectures failing to build.
Released 1.2 on Sat, 22 Dec 2007. This is a bugfix release of a buggy 1.1 release.
Released 1.1 on Tues, 18 Dec 2007. This is a bugfix release.
Moved this page to be a subset of projects.l3ib.org, updated links.
Released 1.0 on Thurs, 24 May 2007.
Debian packages provided by Mogaal.
Foresight Linux packages by Og Maciel.
Features
- Multihead and Xinerama aware.
- Recall mode to used via startup script.
- Uses freedesktop.org standard for thumbnails.
- Can set GNOME background.
- Command line set modes for script use.
- Inotify monitoring of browse directory.
- Lazy loading of thumbnails - conserves memory (new in 1.3).
Screenshots
Downloads
nitrogen-1.3.tar.gzbelow are out of date since 1.1
Debs (by mogaal): http://mogaal.com/paquetes/nitrogen
Foresight Linux (by Og Maciel): See here.
Git version - git clone git://code.l3ib.org/nitrogen.git
Development
Contact
Talk to us on #l3ib on irc.freenode.net, or email Dave at daf AT minuslab DOT net.
