Xsnow - Hackdot

Re:Xsnow by slobiwan on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:16AM (#29510077)

Xantfarm was a particular favorite of mine. Made coming into work on a Monday morning kind of fun, to see what the ants had been up to

https://acme.com/software/xantfarm/

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Re:Xsnow by fullstop on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:41PM (#29515207)

If you're like me and this doesn't work because you've moved on to Wayland, I was able to run it as follows:

    # Xwayland :2 &
    # export DISPLAY=:2
    # ./xantfarm

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Re:Xsnow by cbsmith on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:23PM (#29513508)

xroach: https://github.com/interkosmos/xroach

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Re:Xsnow by taftster on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:42PM (#29513759)

Came here to reminisce about xroach.

Back in the day, it wasn't uncommon that the security configuration of an X workstation was open to external windows/display. e.g. you could run a program on your system, but target your neighbor's display.

I think universities did this to make it easier to help/troubleshoot a workstation remotely, but once you figured out the commands, xroach was one of my favorites to run on another machine.

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Re:Xsnow by cbsmith on Monday December 13, 2021 @09:44PM (#29547581)

It was just the default setup for X in general. You had to lock it down to avoid it. My goodness that was sooo much fun though. ;-)

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