xsnow

[david]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:08 +0000, George Wright wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:44:53 +0000, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > My daughter would very much like xsnow running in her desktop. I've
> > installed it but when I run it nothing appears. I've searched for a
> > solution but find either instructions for ancient versions of kde or
> > instructions that just don't work.
> > Can anyone tell me what to do to get the snow to appear on top of the
> > desktop and not underneath it.
> 
> 
> Hi David
> 
> I got it working, but not with gnome - it doesn't let the root window
> 'shine through'
> 
> I tried another WM (for the sake of my test I used, yuk, twm) and it worked OK
> 
> I fiddled with nautilus --no-desktop, no joy
> 
> 
> Here's my best suggestion to keep the gnome goodness as much as possible
> 
> sudo apt-get install openbox
> openbox --replace
> xsnow
> killall nautilus && nautilus --no-desktop && xsnow
> 
> YMMV
> 
> George

I installed ICEWM and made it her default WM and now it works. 
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
My daughter claims to prefer IceWM over Gnome. (Proof that you can't
teach them everything. They will insist on forming their own opinions!)
;-)

regards

David