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That new xsnow linked above seems to work fine with Xfce 4.14, for what it's worth.

xsnow in @wvermin's link works great with MATE-1.22 and -current, thanks! :)

Well...... :) It is working at the moment in 4.12.x, but last night when I was using 4.14.0, it, XSnow, was not working properly. As reported elsewhere, Santa was a blur and the snow looked like string confetti.
I'll let the "dust settle" on 4.14 and try again in a week or two.
:)

While I think about it.... I had used src2pkg on the latest version of XSnow and that is what wasn't working last night. With that in mind, this morning, I deleted the package and used, "configure," then "make," and finally, "make install," and that is what is running properly at the moment in Xfce-4.12.x. Why that might make a difference I don't know.

Standard Slackware 14.2? If you have gdkmonitor.h in your system, from whence did it come?

Xfce-4.12.x

As it says right about..........
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I'm running -current.
:)

Oh. Your swapping between 4.12 and 4.14 gave me the impression that you were switching between 14.2 and current, respectively. I guess current has a more up to date 4.12 (or, at least, gdkmonitor.h)!

We are almost there.
:)

Works fine for me on -current, with Plasma5. I downloaded the .deb and ran deb2tgz on it. Installed and ran kmenuedit to add it to Games. Seems fine - maybe the grandkids will get a kick out of it.

About blurred Santa and confetti-snow: just try to click some buttons in the 'settings' panel. If you think you messed it up, kill xsnow and delete the file ~/.xsnowrc where xsnow keeps it's settings and preferences.

Well, ~/.xsnowrc is nowhere to be found. Ditto the control panel.
A couple of hours ago I deleted all the Xfce-4.12 configuration files and did a "fresh" installation of Xfce-14.14.
No joy. Santa and reindeer are a blur and the snow falls like string confetti.
I've gone as far as to remove the Nvidia driver and xorg.conf file and use the nouveau driver, but that didn't change a thing regarding Xsnow. All of this was with Xsnow-2.0.9.
I do remember seeing a control panel with version 2.0.7, but not with 2.0.9.

The executable for the Control Panel is in /usr/games.

I don't have an ~/.xsnowrc either.

see my next post

There is xsnow-2.0.13, maybe you can try that: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xsnow/files/
By default, xsnow installs as /usr/local/games/xsnow. If that does not function properly, please start xsnow from the command line and post the start-up messages.

To be sure to use the correct xsnow:
$ configure
$ make
$ src/xsnow

In the mean time, I will test the thing in a virtualbox slackware system to see what seems to be the problem.

This is just informational and not an answer to a specific post.

I didn't download the source. I downloaded xsnow_2.0.13-1_amd64.deb. I ran deb2tgz on that package to get xsnow_2.0.13-1_amd64.txz.

The resulting package installed to /usr, /usr/bin. The Control Panel was in /usr/games, which I added to the Games Kmenu through kmenuedit. Then I created a shortcut on the desktop. Xsnow works fine for me, that's how I did it on -current with Alien's Plasma5. YMMV :)

Ok, I found this:

- in slackware_current:
- in KDE: xsnow runs just fine
- in xfce, fvwm2 etc: xsnow runs, but ugly

- in slackware 14.2:
Neither in KDE or XFCE or any other xsnow is running properly.
I managed to get it compiled, but there remain issues with
incompatible gtk+3: xsnow requires version 3.20 or better,
available is 3.18.

I run both slackware distributions in a virtualbox.

In ubuntu 19.04 in xfce, gnome, kde etc. xsnow runs fine, sometimes
a little tweak in the settings panel is necessary.

In both slackware distributions, there is an old version of
xsnow-1.42 installed in /usr/bin.
If you want to install the new xsnow, remove that first.
Files to remove are:
/usr/bin/xsnow
/usr/doc/xgames-0.3/xsnow/README
/usr/doc/xgames-0.3/xsnow/
/usr/man/man6/xsnow.6.gz

Installation of xsnow in standard locations:

tar xf xsnow-2.0.13.tar.gz
cd xsnow-2.0.13
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

to uninstall:
sudo make uninstall

Xsnow will be installed in /usr/games, the man page in /usr/man/man6
Xsnow remembers it's settings in ~/.xsnowrc .

Manys thanks for all your work on one of my favorite applications, but :) I've found Xshow-2.0.13 will not run in kde-4.whatever or kde-5. In both cases it appears to start, but is actually running underneath the desktop and you don't see if until you log out and kde goes through its shutdown procedure.
When I have the time I'll try it again... or maybe 2.0.7, which I think did work at one time.
Thanks, again.
:hattip:

Are you sure you are using the new xsnow and not the old one which indeed runs behind the desktop?
Check: remove ~/.xsnowrc and start xsnow. If there is no ~/.xsnowrc, then you are not running xsnow-2.0.13

Succes!

I do have ~/.xsnowrc - I was looking at hidden folders and not files........what a rookie mistake.....

I think root window is not being replaced - it is covered by window the same size containing eg. plasma. Just try to run Plasma in twm - at least it worked with KDE 4. Plasma is just another window application and under twm plasma window can be iconified, replaced etc. Try to run xsnow and see if it is present in process list.

Ok, a final tip: try clicking the button 'below' in the settings panel. By default it is on, which causes xsnow to run in a transparent widow below all other windows. When not activated, xsnow is running in front of everything else.

OK, that works with KDE-5.
Many thanks.
:hattip:

Ditto with Xfce-14.4.
:)

Hello,

Works under fluxbox (with compton). The only drawback is that mouse clicks (without modifier like winkey, ctrl,...) are not passed to the root window (same issue encountered with conky>1.9.0, by the way). therefore, default mouse-click settings (ex right-click on desktop=open the root menu) do not work, and you need to use other settings (ex. winkey+rigth-click). Maybe xsnow offers something to prevent this which I didn't notice.

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<sigh>...Unfortunately not even 2.0.13 will 'make' in my 14.2 x64. I still get the 'gdk' error. Pretty bummed, as this has also for me been a much loved program since back in the KDE3 days.

OK. I've been trying this, that and the other thing :) and the trick seems to be, as indicated above, to build it as user, but install it, of course, as root. I've always built and installed everything as root.
However, after doing so, xsnow is located in /usr/local/games, for whatever reasons, not /usr/games.
Regardless, it works in Xfce-4.14 and kde-5.
:)

This should do what you want:

@rworkman,

Many thanks.

:hattip:

Working on 14.2?

No idea. Try it and see.

Much obliged, definitely adds something to my desktop!
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This is indeed the crux of xsnow, if you want it to work, and yes, it does work on Slackware 14.2, then you'll have to turn off compositing in your WM of choice.
They are either part of the WM suite, or 'third party' like compton for things like DWM, Xmonad and co.
I use Xmonad and compton, so if I want this program to do its designated task, I have to terminate compton.

https://www.airliners.net/ has "snow" on its main page, but no Santa.
:)

Nice find. The snow also follows the mouse :)

As a pilot myself been a regular visitor to that site but probably not enough during December to notice the snow.

This might be stupid, but has anyone tried using a different wm in kde, like openbox? It might just not work with kwin, for some reason.

EDIT: was stupid, xsnow actually works now

Xsnow-2.0.15 on Xfce-4.14, just in time for Christmas.
:)
Santa is flying above the VLC window.

https://www.ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/c.../xsnow/visuals

Image removed. Please see message #90 below.
Merry Christmas.
:)

Definitely a sense of North and South Hemisphere in this thread: while the north is getting ready for a cool Xmas my own country of Australia is burning with 45 degrees celcius forecast today :(

Yes, it is terrible what is happening in Australia these days. Our hearts are with your country these days. I hope the situation will improve quickly.

Here is XSnow-2.0.15 on KDE-5_19.12 (Thank you AlienBob), runnng on Slackware64-current (up to the minute with kernel 5.4.6).

Merry Christmas to You and Yours!
:hattip:

Xsnow-2.0.15 on Xfce-4.14, showing the Whisker Menu plug-in,

Thanks for all your hard work!
Over the last couple of weeks I've been running xsnow daily and your improvements are greatly appreciated! Much better, IMHO, than the original, which I ran a few days ago so as to make a comparison.
Again, many thanks
and
Happy New Year!
:hattip:

Thanks for xsnow wvermin! I just downloaded and installed your latest and it is looking great. The younger grandkids get a big kick out of it!

If you have web pages, then there is also this clever CSS snow trick:

https://christine.website/blog/let-it-snow-2018-12-17

I notice these are rather old posts, but just for the record xsnow (version 1.42) seems to run fine on my Slackware 14.2 i386 system for Fluxbox, WindowMaker, X Afterstep, and Xfce; but as others have noted, not under KDE. However I'm happy that xsnow still well supported under Slackware and it confirms for me that the OS is true to its roots despite embracing newer features.

Just FYI, :) Xsnow-2.0.15 runs perfectly on kde-4 and 5, and Xfce-4.12 and 4.14.
I know "the season" is over, but I'm still running it and have been looking to see if there is a way to have it start automatically, like a screensaver, when I'm not at the computer.

I still run it since it could really snow at any time. I just took out Santa.

Maybe Santa needs a replacement for those times.
Like a snowplow, or something.

Here is Xsnow-2.0.15 on -current with kde-5 and the 5.4.10 kernel,

I just downloaded the latest, 3.1.1 tarball.

I checked the 'dependencies' file and I have everything on it (all 5).

As user, configure worked fine, then here's what I got at the end of 'make'...

Any idea(s) what this is or what's happening incorrectly on my 14.2 x64 (not 'current', just the standard 14.2 of a few years of age, heh)?

Well, it is just about "that time of the year." Halloween is 2 weeks from today, then Thanksgiving and Christmas. After the heat wave we have been having here, I would welcome a little snow.
Here is XSnow-2.0.15 running on KDE-4 with the 5.9.1 kernel and the nouveau driver.