The new xsnow added stars, aurora, birds, moon, stars, wind, blowing snow, moose, meteors, reindeer, snow that builds up slowly (the flakes compress) etc. Sadly snow builds up on the settings window, but with weyland it doesn't build up on normal windows.
Does that thing everyone keeps trying to get us all to move to (I am a hardcore ICEwm / *boxwm user) support all of the old X stuff like xsnow, xscreensaver, etc?
I was sad to realize that xroach is no longer in Debian (or Gentoo, there is a bug report from 2009), however, others still exist: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204241/x-windows-sp...
As SE says, do not forget the "santa" option to xsnow. I forgot about it.
This always reminds me, anyone remember Koules? https://www.ucw.cz/~hubicka/koules/English/koules.html
Against the philosophy but, I think, not completely impossible. Wayland is “just a protocol”, so somebody could write a Wayland server that runs in a Wayland window. Then, you could draw anywhere in the outer window, including outside of the inner one(s).
Make the outer window not have a title bar, etc. and run in full screen, and you’re done.
Isn’t that what XWayland does, except for the fact that it runs X Windows windows inside a full screen Wayland window?
I don't know. But if it does so, how does it integrate wayland windows with X windows? How does it stop X programs from observing the window contents of wayland programs?
That is the saddest thing about Wayland, a lot of cool little X applications will stop working and be forgotten about.
There is xfishtank, I posted this screen to remind people about it years ago. I kick that off every so often for fun.
https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/m9gk2l/ctwm_on_sl...
There are many many more of these little clients that will disappear once Linux disables X. Never mind other cool things, a couple I remember: lavaclock, bubblefishymon, catclock, xplanet.
You can do this to get a matrix wallpaper, this will work with many xscreensaver "utilities"
/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/xmatrix --root
where this is on your distro may be different.
Why can't we bring the apps you mention to wayland as a background?
For the foreground, the compositor could even use the alpha channel to draw see through snowflakes: I have foot in quaketerm mode showing what's behind. Replace foot by a smaller snowflake, make more than one of them, and it should be the same!
Or am I missing something?
Impressive that the X11 XShape (Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension) works so well.
It doesn’t work very well in i3, sadly. I’m not sure what I expected it to do in a tiling window manager, but it only produces snow on empty workspaces, I guess because otherwise the screen is fully occupied (no room for snowflakes). Also the menu seems to follow me around.
Still neat, though. Maybe I’ll try out a non-tiling WM for the holidays…
Thanks for the suggestion though. If I want to see snowflakes I’ll can switch to another workspace or look out the window and wait a few days. :)
Edit: When I turn on a compositor, picom, the option becomes clickable. But when I turn on picom, the flakes stop rendering for some reason. It looks like somebody came up with a patched version for i3 + picom, so I guess this is a problem that people have worked on already.