xsnow
Hello all,
It's that time of year again, and I was looking for a GNU/Linux program that gave me snow on my desktop. To my delight I found xsnow. The only thing is, I start it, and I don't see any snow, it just kinda clears the desktop in some places and seems to fight against it.
Has anyone played around with this? I am running Trisquel GNU/Linux 7.0 with XFCE as my Desktop Environment. From what I have read, it should be running flawlessly because it's supposed to run on the root Desktop window and XFCE is supposed to display the root window?
Thanks,
grimlok
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsnow
Xsnow is available freely and you may give it to other people as is, but I retain all rights. Therefore it does not classify as 'Public Domain' software. It *is* allowed to package Xsnow for Unix/Linux distributions, CD-Roms etc, and to make the necessary changes to makefiles etc. to facilitate this.
EDIT:
Yep. It's not free. Sorry mate.
http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/rick/Xsnow/
Oh, well that stinks...
Wow that licence really sucks. It is simple toys like this that could be used as a brilliant introduction to programming for beginners.
Shame really, it could have been something really cool. (Pun slightly intended :P )
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Worry not mate, for there is a GPL one that does the same but as usual with free software, does it better indeed! :)
http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/XDecorations?content=167575
I compiled it and played a little with it (I found your "having some snow on desktop" idea nice) and the application is very neat IMHO.
The instructions are inside the INSTALL readme file.
You install the dependencies and compile with just "make" and run the executable.
./xdecorations -configfile ./xdecorations.rc
Play with the xdecorations.rc file to change the placement of the objects on the screen, the amount of them, the lights, the snow and the wind etc etc..
Also, if you want just the snow, turn off (put value 0) the other things in the .rc file.
Happy grav-mass!
Thanks again for the tip-off on this, it's great! I changed the snowflakes to a more pixelated version rather than the default that came with it. It looks more like snow that way. I can't get the accumulation to work on the taskbar, but it works on windows, but the effect is nice.
So again thanks for this!
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I'm glad you like it, mate :)
I am a translator!
I'm glad you like it, mate :)
Thanks again for the tip-off on this, it's great! I changed the snowflakes
to a more pixelated version rather than the default that came with it. It
looks more like snow that way. I can't get the accumulation to work on the
taskbar, but it works on windows, but the effect is nice.
So again thanks for this!
Wow, this shows promise! I will have to play around with it! Thanks and Merry Christmas, and Grav-Mass to you too!
grimlok
Hello all,
It's that time of year again, and I was looking for a GNU/Linux program
that gave me snow on my desktop. To my delight I found xsnow. The only
thing is, I start it, and I don't see any snow, it just kinda clears the
desktop in some places and seems to fight against it.
Has anyone played around with this? I am running Trisquel GNU/Linux 7.0 with
XFCE as my Desktop Environment. From what I have read, it should be running
flawlessly because it's supposed to run on the root Desktop window and XFCE
is supposed to display the root window?
Thanks,
grimlok
I am a translator!
https://askubuntu.com/questions/380498/xsnow-does-not-work
maybe it helps.
Wait, I just aptitude searched for it and is not in the main Debian repo and
on the website it says it is in the non-free repo??
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xsnow
Are you sure that thing is free software mate?
Oh, well that stinks...
Wow that licence really sucks. It is simple toys like this that could be used
as a brilliant introduction to programming for beginners.
Shame really, it could have been something really cool. (Pun slightly
intended :P )
I am a translator!
Worry not mate, for there is a GPL one that does the same but as usual with
free software, does it better indeed! :)
http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/XDecorations?content=167575
I compiled it and played a little with it (I found your "having some snow on
desktop" idea nice) and the application is very neat IMHO.
The instructions are inside the INSTALL readme file.
You install the dependencies and compile with just "make" and run the
executable.
./xdecorations -configfile ./xdecorations.rc
Play with the xdecorations.rc file to change the placement of the objects on
the screen, the amount of them, the lights, the snow and the wind etc etc..
Also, if you want just the snow, turn of (put value 0) the other things in
the .rc file.
Happy grav-mass!
Wow, this shows promise! I will have to play around with it! Thanks and
Merry Christmas, and Grav-Mass to you too!
grimlok