no more xsnow

[killermoehre]

Am 27. November 2016 10:47:11 MEZ, schrieb Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de>:
>
>With XFCE 4.12 (xubuntu 16.04) my most important program (for december)
>is
>not working any more: xsnow
>
>The program starts, but no snowflakes are visable and Santa
>disappears after a few seconds.
>
>I have tested it with a solid desktop background colour and disabled
>display compositing with no change.
>
>With XFCE 4.8 (xubuntu 12.04) everything was fine.
>

Hi Ulli,

does xsnow draw directly on the X root window? If yes, than you need either to set a transparent background in xfdesktop or disable it altogether, because xfdesktop creates a window on its own directly above the root window.

BR
Silvio