Linux eye candy

Lynucs.org has a gallery of FVWM screenshots here. FVWM is a highly configurable, lightweight window manager.

Torsmo is an alternative to Gkrellm, and the only lib it uses is Xlib. Packages for Gentoo and VectorLinux are available.

gDesklets are nifty pieces of eye candy for improving your desktop. Here's a good example of gDesklets in action, in conjunction with FVWM.