Aquatic Desktop Eyecandy

[Arktis]

http://xdesktopwaves.sourceforge.net/

Screenshots are included on that page. Runs nice, highly configurable. All it needs is a gui config tool. I think it should be included with future ubuntus.

[klepas]

Whoa! Thanks for the link. :)

[xmastree]

How does one get it working? According to the readme, I just type 'make'
Presumably in the same directory... but I just get a bunch of errors. Loads of errors.

xdesktopwaves.c:31:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
xdesktopwaves.c:32:23: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
xdesktopwaves.c:33:23: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory
xdesktopwaves.c:34:34: X11/extensions/shape.h: No such file or directory
xdesktopwaves.c:64: error: syntax error before "xdwOptEnd"
xdesktopwaves.c:64: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
xdesktopwaves.c:76: error: syntax error before "xdwOptDoubleBuffer"
xdesktopwaves.c:76: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
xdesktopwaves.c:78: error: syntax error before "xdwOptIdle"
xdesktopwaves.c:78: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
xdesktopwaves.c:83: error: syntax error before "xdwOptWavesByMouse"
xdesktopwaves.c:83: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
xdesktopwaves.c:84: error: syntax error before "xdwOptWavesByWindows"
xdesktopwaves.c:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
xdesktopwaves.c: In function `xdwSetDefaultOptions':
xdesktopwaves.c:138: error: `False' undeclared (first use in this function)
xdesktopwaves.c:138: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
xdesktopwaves.c:138: error: for each function it appears in.)
xdesktopwaves.c:150: error: `True' undeclared (first use in this function)
xdesktopwaves.c: At top level:
xdesktopwaves.c:169: error: syntax error before "xdwParseInt"
xdesktopwaves.c: In function `xdwParseInt':
xdesktopwaves.c:178: error: `False' undeclared (first use in this function)
xdesktopwaves.c:189: error: `True' undeclared (first use in this function)
xdesktopwaves.c: In function `xdwParseOptions':
xdesktopwaves.c:256: error: `True' undeclared (first use in this function)
xdesktopwaves.c:337: error: `False' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [xdesktopwaves.o] Interrupt

That interrupt was me hitting ctrl-c so that I could see the first errors, otherwise it spews out loads.

I searched synaptic for those three missing files, but the closest I got was xutils, which doesn't contain any of them.

[drummer]

hehe... neat...
installed fine for me, just a make, sudo make install. Maybe a bad/corrupted download or something? all the readme says is it needs gcc by default, not much else there

[GeneralZod]

hehe... neat...
installed fine for me, just a make, sudo make install. Maybe a bad/corrupted download or something? all the readme says is it needs gcc by default, not much else there

Based on those error messages, it looks like it also needs the x11 development headers.

I'm not at my Kubuntu machine right now, but search synaptic for

x11 dev

or something like that. Is there no "configure" script provided? It's unusual to see source packages without one.

[drummer]

Could be it.. looked in synaptic and saw i have libx11-dev installed already can't remember what for??)

[xmastree]

Looking at the source, xdesktopwaves.c

#include <sys/times.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xutil.h>
#include <X11/Xatom.h>
#include <X11/extensions/shape.h>

Do you have those files anywhere on your system? I don't.

[jobezone]

Install apt-file, then do:

sudo apt-file update
apt-file search Xlib.h

It will tell you which package in your repositories contains that file.

[drummer]

Those 4 files are located at:
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xutil.h
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xatom.h
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/shape.h

They are installed by the libx11-dev package.. apt-getting that _should_ do the trick.

[xmastree]

Could be it.. looked in synaptic and saw i have libx11-dev installed already

Aha... that was it. Thanks