Climsg  is  a  simple inter-process communication program, mostly designed for scripts that don't usually have such a thing.
Messages can be sent, received, repeated or flushed from the queue, the message system is  handled  by  the kernel,  so any modern kernel should be fine, if you have compiled your own kernel you may have to 'opt in' the message system.
Messages can use the default 'key' or can specify a custom 'key' allowing for  semi-private  communications, also  message  'types' can  be  used, a type is any integer > 0, only messages of the correct type will be peeled of from the queue and printed to stdout, type 0 is a special case and is use to receive any  message regardless of 'type' of course the 'key' must match as well.

A simple command line application to display a ppm image on the linux console.
To install repeat the linux mantra "make;sudo make install"


Simple one line console slideshow, change "scale" to your frame buffer resolution:
setterm -cursor off;find /path/to/pics/*.jpg|while read;do convert -scale 1024x768! ppm:-|fbpic;sleep 2;done;setterm -cursor on

I wrote this simple GUI to control the various Xfce4 WM tweaks that are not available via the "Window Manager Tweaks" control panel.
These settings are available via the xconf settings editor but that is one of the most awkward GUI's I  have ever used as you have to select the xfwm4 channel, expand the tree, scroll to the option you want, select it, click edit, change the setting and click save, then the tree gets collapsed and you have to start again!
So this nice simple GUI to control the composite manager, the settings are self explanatory, some are 'live' and change the behavior of the WM immediately some need a WM restart.

DEPENDENCIES:
Bash
gtkdialog version 0.8.x

INSTALL:
Installation is too simple for automation just copy the files where they need to go.
The archive contains a launcher that should be placed either in "/usr/local/share/applications" or "~/.local/share/applications", the script should be placed in your path somewhere ie "/usr/local/bin" you may need to set the executable bit.

Having switched to Xfce from gnome one of the main annoyances I have found is having multiple settings GUI's for setting the theme, one for the window border and one for the controls/icons and neither include  thumbnails!
As I like to switch themes and mix and match this soon became VERY irritating hence this application, as you can see from the screenshots only one GUI is used to set all the bits of a theme, the "Themes" tab contains themes that have an integrated window border/control theme ( and if there is a gnome-like theme.index file that specifies an icon set this will be used as well ), everything is fairly self explanatory  just click on a thumbnail to set a particular theme/window border/control/icon set.
Full installation/usage is in the README file in the archive.