XSnow & KDE. Believe It Or Not, It Will Soon Be That Time Of The Year. :)
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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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XSnow & KDE. Believe It Or Not, It Will Soon Be That Time Of The Year. :)
Xsnow 1.42 runs in Xfce 4.6.2 and 4.8.x, but I made an interesting (to me) discovery when trying to run it in KDE 4.7.
At first it appears not to work in KDE, but when I went to log out, and what I will call the "first layer" of the desktop was unloaded, for lack of a better term, there was xsnow running underneath. I could only see it for a moment or two, but it appeared to be running just fine.
So, the question becomes, is it possible to not load that "first layer"? Or, is it actually the "second layer" on top of the first?
Any ideas greatly appreciate.
Thanks.
Last edited by cwizardone; 09-03-2011 at 09:15 PM.
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xsnow draws on the root screen (not sure if that's the right name), the same as wmsetbg. KDE adds another layer on top of that. Not sure if it's doable.
Thanks for bringing back last years thread.
As to the "invalid" "bug," typical.
I've come to prefer Xfce anyway. I try running KDE every now and then and it only last a few hours or a day or so at the most and it is back to Xfce.
I will say Alien Bob has done a nice job with Blue Devil and KDE. They work nicely together. When I need to use Bluetooth I fire up KDE as it never works properly or as easily in Xfce.
Last edited by cwizardone; 09-04-2011 at 05:21 AM.
If they'd simply responded that the design of the KDE Desktop display overlays the root window with one of its own and thus things like xsnow that use the root window directly will no longer display then that would at least be honest, but to turn around and say that it's a bug in Xsnow and that "the assumptions it makes today are not valid" is just arrogance. The only assumption it was making is that everyone else is playing by the rules.
Last edited by GazL; 09-05-2011 at 07:13 AM.
Reason: missed a word.
If they'd simply responded that the design of the KDE Desktop display overlays the root window with one of it's and thus things like xsnow that use the root window directly will no longer display then that would at least be honest, but to turn around and say that it's a bug in Xsnow and that "the assumptions it makes today are not valid" is just arrogance. The only assumption it was making is that everyone else is playing by the rules.
Indeed. The loss of the root window causes a lot of older apps to not display. Pretty arrogant of the KDE devs to blame the apps.
Good to see that it is snowing on your desktops! If you want to see the snow at the bottom, go to the settings tab, and set 'lift snow bottom' to 24 or 30 or so.
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