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| Name: xsnow | Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Version: 3.8.5 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: 1.1 | Build date: Thu Jul 10 18:54:48 2025 |
| Group: System/X11/Utilities | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 1716492 | Source RPM: xsnow-3.8.5-1.1.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://www.ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/xsnow | |
| Summary: A Christmas Animation | |
Xsnow is an application that animates snowfall, Santa and some scenery on your desktop. It is NOT a kind of screen saver: snow is falling, Santa rides his sleigh with reindeer while you are using your system. Xsnow runs on most varieties of Linux, and probably on other Unix systems as well. Xsnow is derived from Rick Jansen's xsnow-1.42.
GPL-3.0-or-later
* Thu Jul 10 2025 Carsten Ziepke <kieltux@gmail.com>
- Update to version 3.8.5:
* src/windows.c: add test for "hidden" to determine if snow
should fall on window.
* src/fallensnow.c: generate more fallensnow for first and last
item of fallensnow.
* src/main.c: do not specify "dock" for the snow window.
"dock" causes KDE PLASMA 6 to have the snow window always
on top.
* src/main.c, src/windows.c: add property "TRANSPARENCY" "YES"
to snow window if transparent, else "TRANSPARENCY" "NO" so
that other apps, like xpenguins, can determine if this
window is to be ignored or not.
* src/fallensnow.c: transform blob into snow now and then.
prevent direct accumulation of snow from transformed blob.
* src/snow.c: after about 2 seconds, make accumulation possible
again.
* src/fallensnow.c: CreateSurfaceFromFallen(FallenSnow *f):
fix bug with regard to the number of points to average.
make height max height of fallensnow dependent on width.
* birds.c: lower default number of birds
* stars.c: if CIRCLESTARS is defined, paint circle-like stars
suggestion by Mihai Dobrescu.
* doit.h: increase default nr of stars.
* ui.glade: increase max number of starts.
* change snowtree.xpm and tree-1_100px.xpm (Thanks to Carla)
* Create halo around stars (thanks to Carla)
* Create src/transwindow.c: GetYOffset() to determine absolute
value of y-coordinate of an window. This is used to properly
size a snow window.
* flags.c: check value of Flags.ForceRoot before
using gtk_builder_get_object().
* pofiles/*.po: update translations
* src/transwindow.c: force snow window to have
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL
by calling
gdk_window_set_type_hint(gdkwin,GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_NORMAL);
* src/main.c: HandleX11Cairo(): set SnowWinX, SnowWinY to 0,0 .
* In LXDE, monitor 0 and 1 are used correctly now.
* bootstrap: insert correct xsnow version in pofiles/*.po.
- Changes in version 3.8.4
* main.c: add code to stop if ~/.xsnowstop is present.
* test2.sh: get rid of kill, killall by using xvfb-run
and touching ~/.xsnowstop when testing is done.
* main.c, flags,c: make them acceptable for c++.
* adapt for loops to C99, except a few where the lopp variable
is used after the loop
* pofiles/nl.po: Some minor translation changes for nl.
* ui.glade: change step increment for nbirds from 5 to 1.
* Santa.c, xsnow.h: make SantaRegion global for use in
fallensnow.c.
* fallensnow.c: turn fallensnow in flakes for Santa occupied
zones.
* ui.glade: remove donate button
* ui.glade: minor alignments of bottom buttons
* snow.c: take care that start of fallensnow's are covered by
snow by subtracting SnowSize from x-coordinate.
* fallensnow.c: do not smooth start and end points of
fallensnow. allow start and end-points >= 0. draw half circles
at start and end to simulate snow overflow
* xsnow.h, fallensnow.c: every 30 seconds 0.3 change that
desired height of fallen snow is re-established
* fallensnow.c: let desired heights between 0.3 and 1.0
* fallensnow.c, aurora.c, main.c, wmctrl.c: removed some
dead code
* Sun Feb 23 2025 Carsten Ziepke <kieltux@gmail.com>
- Update to version 3.8.3:
* with the exception of xdo.c:
make 'gcc-14 -fanalyzer -O2 -Wno-analyzer-imprecise-fp-arithmetic'
happy
- Changes in version 3.8.2
* po/Makevars: disable changing .po and/or .pot files by
po/Makefile.in.in
* configure.ac: Add flag --mode="a+rwX" to tar replacement to
get reproducible build.
* snow.c: fix a real bug: first EraseSnowFlake1(flake) and then
DelFlake(flake), and not the other way around.
* main.c: do not printf() in sighandler
* Fri Dec 20 2024 Andrea Manzini <andrea.manzini@suse.com>
- Update to version 3.8.1:
01: xpm2cairo-gdk.c: use xpm2gdk() as replacement for deprecated
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_xpm_data().
02: ui.c: clicking on a tab in the headerbar triggers a call to
WriteFlags().
03: main.c: Activation of WriteFlags now via do_write_flags() callback,
which checks the value of global.time_to_write_flags.
- Update to version 3.8.0:
01: configure.ac: add warning if msgmerge is not found.
In that case, no 'make dist' or 'xsnow -selfrep' is possible.
data/xsnow.appdata.xml.in: make it conform "appstreamcli validate"
xdo_search.c:37: Correct call to calloc, parameters were switched
02: test2.sh: Add tests: xsnow running in Xvfb, use xdotool to click buttons.
Output screen locations of buttons to ~/.xsnowrc.
main.c: Use SIGUSR1 to force rewrite of ~/.xsnowrc.
This does not work in Debian's autopkgtest :-(.
Makefile.am: make check only in src/
src/{xdo.c,xdo.h,clientwin.c,clientwin.h,dsimple.c,dsimple.h,
kdtree.c,kdtree.h,xdo_version.h,xdo_util.h,xdo_version.h} :
remove GPL 3 license: these files had already an own license.
src/xdo.c, configure.ac: remove dependency for libxkbcommon.
* Sat May 11 2024 jun wang <jgwang@suse.com>
- Update to version 3.7.9
+ changes from 3.7.9
* ui.glade: make gui not-resizable to prevent wrong reported
size when user tries to change size.
* windows.c, main.c, xsnow.h: when window is moved or resized,
convert fallensnow into flakes. Look for global.DoCapella.
* ui.glade: change color pickers (snow, birds, vintage tree)
to standard, the fancy color editor is still available using
the '+' button.
* main.c: take care that while changing OffsetY, fallensnow is
not converted to flakes. snow.h, main.c: use macro DOCAPELLA
for setting default.
* meteor.c: better simulation of meteors.
* generate flakes if window is minimized.
* snow.c and others: optional: 2 snow colors, pofiles/: add
translations for 2 snow colors.
* src/Makefile.am: specify dependencies of makeman.
* adaptations for FreeBSD:
- use sh in stead of bash in bootstrap
- addcopyright.sh: adapt sed calls to FreeBSD's sed
- remove src/safe_malloc.c, adapt src/safe_malloc.h,
safe_malloc.c was not used anyway
* addcopyright.sh: use tmpfile="tmpfile" in stead of `mktemp`
* src/Makefile.am: minor: avoid $< because of FreeBSD's make
+ changes from 3.7.8
* src/Makefile.am: fix bug related with tarfile.inc which
caused --disable-selfrep not working
+ changes from 3.7.7
* enable cross compiling
* fix minor issue: version in man page
* Wed Dec 06 2023 Carsten Ziepke <kieltux@gmail.com>
- Update to version 3.7.6
* correct spelling error in ChangeLog, adapt for debian sid
* Sun Sep 24 2023 Carsten Ziepke <kieltux@gmail.com>
- Update to version 3.7.5
* data/xsnow.desktop.in: add 'Simulation' to categories
* main.c: make 'settings->lift snow on bottom', -offsets working
it appears that xdo_search uses the name argument as
a regular expression, so use ^pcmanfm$ and ^Desktop$.
- Drop xsnow-desktop_file.patch, fixed upstream
* Thu Apr 27 2023 Carsten Ziepke <kieltux@gmail.com>
- Update to version 3.7.4
* utils.c: fix bug in using xdo_search_windows(): the search
parameter must be filled in completely
(probably bug in xdo_search_windows)
* flags.c, docs.c: add flags --root and --window-id same as
- root and -window-id for usage under xscreensaver
* main.c: do_display_dimensions: put fflush() and return in
proper order
* remove prevent-remakes
* utils.c: use memset to initialize xdo_search_t search
* bootstrap: rm -f po/*.gmo po/*.po
* bootstrap: get rid of Makevars.template
* Complete changelog see:
https://www.ratrabbit.nl/ratrabbit/xsnow/changelog/index.html
- Rebase xsnow-bindir.patch
- Add language package, introduced in version 3.7.0
* Wed Apr 26 2023 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
- Resolve "xorg-x11-devel" indirect BuildRequires to pkgconfig(...)
* Sun Dec 11 2022 Carsten Ziepke <kieltux@gmail.com>
- Update to version 3.6.0
* implement xinerama-awareness
* implement -outline
* introduce usage of libxdo, make it g++ compliant, fix some
non-fatal issues
* fallensnow.c: fix bug that causes crash when snowing on a window
less than 10 pixels width
* birds.c: fix bug that caused a hang when using -doublebuffer 0
* docs.c: update window manager/desktop issues
* main.c: print info when snow window changes size
* configure.ac: chack for availability of gsl_interp_steffen,
gsl_interp_akima, gsl_interp_cspline and gsl_interp_linear
* utils.c: somewhat nicer print-out of version
- Rebase xsnow-desktop_file.patch
* Wed Nov 09 2022 Carsten Ziepke <kieltux@gmail.com>
- Update to version 3.5.3
* main.c: drawit(): do now draw the first second or so to hide
unstable configurations of scenery, stars, etc.
fallensnow.c, birds.c, aurora.c: make them C++ compliant by
rewriting goto and typecast pointer assignment
meteor.c: rewrite goto
santa.c: continue Santa animation, irrespective of His speed
fallensnow.c: paint fallensnow one pixel higher
fallensnow.c: generate more snow when Santa is ploughing
* loadmeasure.c: maximum 5 warnings about to busy system
* doit.h: change defaults for aurora_width/height to 60/30
- Changes in 3.5.2
* fallensnow.c: draw fallensnow only on regions where
fallensnow is present, to prevent a continuously present line
on regions where there is no fallensnow (yet)
* main.c: when user changes offsety, call
UpdateFallenSnowRegionsWithLock() in stead of
UpdateFallenSnowRegions().
fallensnow.c: on change of MaxScrSnowDepth, call
SetMaxScreenSnowDepthWithLock() in stead of
SetMaxScreenSnowDepth().
snow.c: set fallensnow lock when examining fallensnow regions
thus preventing prevents random crashes
fallensnow.h a.o: create and use macros for semaphores to
facilitate debugging
- Changes in 3.5.1
* configure.ac: reproducible build is now complete, it seems, also
when building outside the xsnow-tree
* aurora.c, spline_interpol.c: use steffen's method for splines
aurora.c: small correction in determining the points to
evaluate the splne at
* spline_interpol.{h,c}, aurora.c: use macro SPLINE_INTERP to choose
for spline type (steffen, cspline)
* change some meteor code: other call-back logic, other
names for variables (meteorite -> meteor)
* change filenames meteo.c, meteo.h into meteor.c, meteor.h
change flags -meteorites, -nometeorites into -meteors, -nometeors
meteor.c: some minor changes, including different colors
* snow.c: do_UpdateSnowFlake(): fix non-fatal bug in updating
horizontal speed of flakes
* xsnow.c, snow.c: change some parameters for a more dramatic
dependency from wind on flakes
flag 'auroraheight' is now height of aurora
flag 'aurorabase' determines the vertical placement of the aurora
* fallensnow.c, treesnow.c: use random flake for blowoff snow
fallensnow.c: change initial velocity and position of blowoff snow
* fallensnow.c: use spline for desh shape of bottom fallensnow
main.c: correct non-fatal bug in using srand48() for 32 bit systems
snow.c: correct not-fatal bug: compare acth[] with desh[] in stead
of h
xsnow.h: change time_change_bottom to 10 minutes
* use splines to paint fallensnow
* try pthreads for computing fallensnow
* finish pthreads for fallensnow
* aurora.c: do not use mutexes, use semaphores
fix bug that caused creation of new threads after
resizing of corona
* fallensnow.c: use splines for fallensnow also on windows
* birds.c: make birds multithreading
* fallensnow.c, utils.{c,h}: check on availability of traceback()
fallensnow.h: threads.h -> pthread.h
* Fri Apr 22 2022 Ferdinand Thiessen <rpm@fthiessen.de>
- Update to version 3.5.0
* add aurora
* randomize starting theta and alpha of aurora
* optimized determining of fuzz somewhat
* main.c: initialize global.NewWind to 100.0
* moon.c: randomize starting position from moon
* ixpm.c: correct two non fatal errors
* fallensnow.c: do not call XClearArea when double buffer is used.
- Update to version 3.4.4
* birds.c: attraction point goes now from 0.1..0.9 of the horizontal
dimension of the screen
* main.c: add some fflush(stdout)
* birds.c: take care that AttrSpace is always honored from the
beginning
- Update to version 3.4.3
* main.c, ui.c, flags,c, doit.h: solve bug concerning the flag -above
* main.c: fix bug: Xsnow in TWM did start in non-existing window.
* utils.c: add some randomness to add_to_mainloop
* implement -attrspace, including button and man page
if Santa is not shown, let Him run anyway, so 'Follow Santa' has effect
- Drop upstream fixed reproducible.patch
- Rebased xsnow-bindir.patch
* Wed Feb 02 2022 Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
- Add reproducible.patch to override build date (boo#1047218)
- disable selfrep to avoid embedding a non-deterministic tarball
/usr/bin/xsnow /usr/share/applications/xsnow.desktop /usr/share/doc/packages/xsnow /usr/share/doc/packages/xsnow/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/packages/xsnow/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/packages/xsnow/README /usr/share/doc/packages/xsnow/README.md /usr/share/licenses/xsnow /usr/share/licenses/xsnow/COPYING /usr/share/man/man6/xsnow.6.gz /usr/share/metainfo /usr/share/metainfo/xsnow.appdata.xml /usr/share/pixmaps/xsnow.svg
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