Bug 52132 - xsnow doesn't.
Summary: xsnow doesn't.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 53192
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: xsnow
Version: roswell
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-20 21:41 UTC by Tom "spot" Callaway
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-12-06 20:12:27 UTC
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strace log of xsnow (101.20 KB, text/plain)
2001-08-20 21:43 UTC, Tom "spot" Callaway 		no flags Details
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Description Tom "spot" Callaway 2001-08-20 21:41:34 UTC 
Description of Problem:

xsnow doesn't snow. or do anything for that matter.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[spot@zorak spot]$ xsnow -version

This is Xsnow-1.40, November 22nd 1995 by Rick Jansen (rick)

[spot@zorak spot]$ rpm -q xsnow     
xsnow-1.40-14

How Reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. xsnow
2. watch for snow
3. ...............

Actual Results:

much waiting, no snow. no nothing.

Expected Results:

snow. possibly a santa, some trees. maybe a reindeer.

Additional Information:

strace attached, it seems to be looping endlessly.
Comment 1 Tom "spot" Callaway 2001-08-20 21:43:13 UTC 
Created attachment 28554 [details]
strace log of xsnow
Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2001-08-20 21:48:01 UTC 
My bad. Forgot that Nautilus takes over the desktop, xsnow is working, just
behind Nautilus.
Comment 3 Chris Ricker 2001-12-06 20:12:21 UTC 
I'm reopening this bug.  Xsnow doesn't work in KDE either (just times out
forever on select()).  If RH's going to ship it, it should work with the desktop
environments used by RH....
Comment 4 Than Ngo 2001-12-20 11:37:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53192 ***
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