Adam Bower abower@thebowery.co.uk writes:
The window titles bit would be the work of your window manager [...]
Indeed. nawm (Not A Window Manager) could be quite good for this if you can find it. Written by MIT hackers for some mad project a few years back, probably not dissimilar to this.
You can make the keyboard LEDs do lots of fun things! as Neill suggests a quick look on Freshmeat would probably bring up the correct results. and a
Anyone know a modem traffic one which works in X? That would be quite handy (stop me running gkrellm so much, at least). Especially if it flashed all three together for new email.