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x1a4
April 28th, 2008, 04:38 AM
Hi,

After upgrading to Hardy I noticed a new entry in the Settings menu called "Langton's Ant" but when I click on it, nothing happens--at least nothing that I can see. What is it, and how do I get rid of it?

Thank you.

chandra
April 29th, 2008, 06:05 PM
I do not know the precise answer and run Kubuntu, but the following could help.

Take a look at:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LangtonsAnt.html

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton's_ant

It is some form of cellular automation and is likely part of a package like glife or xlife. Or even some flavour of wallpaper.

In any case viewing it at the above websites should give you some clue.

HTH.

morgengenuss
April 29th, 2008, 07:15 PM
maybe a screensaver? (at least i find a screensaver called "ant" in xscreensaver...)

chandra
May 2nd, 2008, 11:22 AM
Thanks for the hint.

I googled and got this:

Bug #160669 in xscreensaver (Ubuntu): “Langton's Ant saver doesn't show up in xScreensaver list”
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xscreensaver/+bug/160669

Perhaps you can post your experience there, or possibly uninstall the offending package.

HTH.

x1a4
May 7th, 2008, 11:23 PM
It's gone, though I don't know how. At first I thought it was part of Java Ant (Java's answer to make). But after removing all ant packages the launcher persisted. So I asked about it here, eventually I had to reboot after making GRUB changes and Langton's Ant vanished. Goodbye Langton's Ant, whatever you are. :)