Xsnow - the 3d way!

christmas time means snow falling from the sky.....I'm loving it (TM Mc Donalds...sorry guys)

A couple of my friends from my days at the university has decided to redo the good old xshow linux application as a plugin for the window/compiz manager beryl. This means 3D style snow spread across the desktop. Currently they only have the falling snow part ready, but I know that plans mention drifts of snow on top of windows, realistic wind (maybe with realtime input from online weather reports from the local area),possibility to push the snow around. Unfortunately it currently needs the svn version of Beryl in order to compile, and I am using latest "stable" version, but I will upgrade this weekend and see if I can make a screencast of it in action.
Until then! go check it out :XglSnow

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