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No snow, no Christmas?

TechSoon Christmas and still no snow? Since there hasn't been a decent cold and white winter here for years, it's a little hard to get that Christmas mood. Luckily, we have computer tools that can help us out.

A small and nifty little program called "xsnow" snows all over your X-session. All the windows get covered in snow and even Santa himself fly by. The graphics are not outstanding, in fact they quite early 1990-ish. Still, it gives you a little Christmas nostalgia. You can almost feel the cold when the snows hurls over your screen.

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No snow, no Christmas?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday 05 December 2007 @ 09:55 CET
You know Compiz can help you get snow as well, with customizable textures. Mmm.. shiny. Try the snow plugin. HOWTO here: http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?p=35533

The textures need to be downloaded separately, though.. use for example the old beryl artwork:http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=inactive/beryl/beryl-extra-artwork;a=snapshot;h=76ce0dc9de96343e2c16a1ab0670f11369111737;sf=tgz

Cheers,
Roger
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