xpenguins quit working on SuSE 9.2

Billgatus of Borg · 11-19-2005, 08:34 PM

Greetings:

i am new to Linux, and have installed SuSE 9.2 Professional on an HP Pavilion with an AMD 64 processor.

The installation went smoothly, except for something i have no explanation for.

My wallpaper is the "Tux Server" picture, with the giant Tux striding over Microsoft Headquaters in Redmond WA. i always prefered to activate the xpenguins "Toy", because of the irony.

After about a week, the programme quit working. i have no idea why. Has anyone else ran into this problem with the same programme, or anything else classified as A.M.O.R. (Amusing Misuse of Resources)?

Thank all of you for your patience with this newbie.

browny_amiga · 11-21-2005, 06:44 AM

Quit working? We would need you to be more specific.
Do you get an error?

Try this to see an error, if the program is not too talkative when you start it:
open a console and execute the command there (i.e. xpenguins)... (make sure you execute it as a normal user)
you should now see what the program does not like or why it fails.

hope it help

cheers

Markus

Billgatus of Borg · 11-21-2005, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by browny_amiga
Quit working? We would need you to be more specific.
Do you get an error?

Try this to see an error, if the program is not too talkative when you start it:
open a console and execute the command there (i.e. xpenguins)... (make sure you execute it as a normal user)
you should now see what the program does not like or why it fails.

hope it help

cheers

Markus

Thank you for your response Markus, and i apologise for providing incomplete information...as i said above, i'm new to Linux, being an old DOS user primarily.

i executed your instructions, running the programme through BASH, and the following information was displayed:

Drawing to Nautilus Desktop and redrawing overwritten desktop icons

i am running KDE, and not the Gnome desktop. i don't even have Gnome installed. The programme initially DID work with KDE, and simply stopped without message or warning. When i try to engage it, the programme shows activity in the task bar, but appears to time out without a display. It is most curious as to how the configuration was changed (if indeed, that is what happened).

Thank you again for your response.

Billgatus
"Assimilate THIS!"

Bernard Swiss · 10-11-2007, 12:45 AM

I am having similar issues on a new install of Debian Etch (stable) with the Gnome desktop.

I get the same message.

Also, if I move the top panel off to the side, I can just see the bottom few pixels of the penguins.

I assume that the Gnome desktop is not the root window (presumably it's a tricked-up representation of the Desktop directory), and thus xpenguins is treating the entire desktop as just another window on the desktop.

However, I have no idea how to get around this.
Any suggestions?