how do I get snow back on my desktop?

**N00b-un-2** · September 18th, 2012

this may seem like a silly problem, but one of the things that I fell in love with when I first started using Linux several years ago was the snow effect on Compiz and later on Kwin when I switched to KDE. But for some reason every single desktop environment has hacked this out of their code.

So my question is this: what distro and which desktop environment do I have to use to get this plugin back? I'm more than willing to format my hard drive and distro hop JUST to get snow back on my computer.

**irv** · September 18th, 2012

This thread might help. I believe the snow screen saver is in this.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...nt+screensaver

EDIT: I am sorry I was thinking of something else when I posted here.

**Frogs Hair** · September 18th, 2012

Snow was removed from the Compiz extra plugins. E17 has snow and rain modules but they are very different. You would need a an SVN PPA or an E17 distro like Bodhi Linux to get the modules working.The E17 packages in the repo are incomplete and outdated and Compiz won't work with E17. http://www.bodhilinux.com/

There are Gnome 2 distros like Scientific Linux but I don't know if an older versions Compiz and plugins are available for it. https://www.scientificlinux.org/news/SL6.3-live