xsnow

[George Wright]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:44:53 +0000, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> My daughter would very much like xsnow running in her desktop. I've
> installed it but when I run it nothing appears. I've searched for a
> solution but find either instructions for ancient versions of kde or
> instructions that just don't work.
> Can anyone tell me what to do to get the snow to appear on top of the
> desktop and not underneath it.


Hi David

I got it working, but not with gnome - it doesn't let the root window
'shine through'

I tried another WM (for the sake of my test I used, yuk, twm) and it worked OK

I fiddled with nautilus --no-desktop, no joy


Here's my best suggestion to keep the gnome goodness as much as possible

sudo apt-get install openbox
openbox --replace
xsnow
killall nautilus && nautilus --no-desktop && xsnow

YMMV

George