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i installed xsnow & xpenguins program but none of them work for me. i find out they need main root window (or root x window) to work which is "probably" invisible in my OS or is not available. how can i make them work fine in my Operation system (by recompiling them or any other thing)? the output of "uname -r" is:

4.19.45-1-MANJARO

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There is a new version of xsnow available, which works in most desktop environments. This version is available in debian-testing and the latest version is on sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xsnow/

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  • Thank you, but unfortunately i am on manjaro which is arch based and not debian based:( I wish xsnow be available for manjaro one day. I love it very much.
    – milad
    Oct 17, 2019 at 11:30
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I tested the newest version of xsnow in a virtual machine with manjaro xfce 18.1.1-191015 : from https://sourceforge.net/projects/xsnow/files/ download xsnow-2.0.13.tar.gz , then:

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

If everything went ok, xsnow is now installed as /usr/local/games/xsnow . In Manjaro this is not optimal, but you can easily correct this:

ln -sf /usr/local/games/xsnow /usr/local/bin/xsnow

With standard settings, xsnow runs very badly on my virtual machine, I had to start xsnow like:

xsnow -alpha 0 -exposures

Note that xsnow keeps it's configuration in ~/.xsnowrc , so the next invocation does not need the flags.

Note: in manjaro-kde (manjaro-kde-18.1.1-191015-linux53) xsnow runs with default settings in a virtual machine.

xsnow running in manjaro

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