Simulation of water waves on the X Windows desktop
 
 
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About xdesktopwaves

xdesktopwaves is a cellular automata setting the background of your X Windows desktop under water. Windows and mouse are like ships on the sea. Each movement of these ends up in moving water waves. You can even have rain and/or storm stirring up the water.

xdesktopwaves is distributed under the GNU General Public License

Latest release version is 1.4

Please also visit Eagle Mode - it's another exciting software from the same author.

Manual

Online manual: manual.html

Gallery

 
Waves by moving the mouse pointer across the background.   Waves by moving a client window.
 
 
Fishes (xfishtank -d), turtles (xpenguins -t Turtles) and desktop icons are under water. Waves come from the storm feature.   xdesktopwaves running in a normal window, with the rain feature enabled.

Requirements

  • X Window System, Version 11, with XShape extension
  • A Unix clone operating system (e.g. Linux, *BSD...)
  • GNU C Compiler >=2.7 (other compilers may even be suitable)

Download

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdesktopwaves/files/

Project page

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdesktopwaves/ Get xdesktopwaves at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and Free Open Source software downloads
 
 
 
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