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Unfortunately, with Wayland's growing popularity, such programs will not be able to run on the Linux desktop for much longer.

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FWIW, xsnow runs with wayland, but ignores the windows (even when i make then floating in Sway):

  $ xsnow
  Xsnow running in GTK version: 3.24.29
  Detected Wayland desktop
  xsnow 3.3.0

Probably works better with a non-tiling WM: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/563400-XsnoW-anyo...

xsnow -h says:

> BUGS

> - Xsnow needs a complete rewrite: the code is a mess.

> …

> - Xsnow does run in Wayland, but will not snow on all windows.

I think it's more likely due to that native-Wayland windows are not visible to XWayland clients. XWayland clients, however, see all other XWayland clients' windows.

It ignored XWayland windows, too. Even the "welcome at xsnow" one. I don't have any other WM than Sway and i don't really want to install one just to try if xsnow works :D

Edit: looks like it doesn't ignore them after all! But the accumulated snow is hidden "behind" the top edge of the window, so it becomes visible only for a brief moment when i move the window downwards.

I mourn the loss of Compiz and Beryl more than quirks like this.

I miss my terminals which would explode into flames when closed.

But, such things are not impossible in wayland at all, it might even work via xWayland.

Those were very interesting times for the desktop. I remember slooowly backing off all the effects after changing Nvidia drivers and restarting X for the Nth time. :-) Eventually just stuck with nv or nouveau or whatever it was. I loved drawing with particles all over the desktop, but little tweaks here and there started to make the whole thing really complex.

Compiz was what got me to try out Linux in the first place - seeing wobbly windows and the desktop cube convinced me that this wasn't just a dry server OS but was actually something that could be fun to use.

Oh my, Compiz and Beryl does bring back memories!

There is a compiz plugin that seems to be updated

https://github.com/Vlaeh/compiz-plugin-snow

https://wayfire.org/ No experience, but this project appears to bring the compiz experience to Wayland.

Kwin (the KDE compositor) has most of those effects. I'm not sure about wayland support though.

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