Pepse Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 When I recently redid my MDK 9.0, expert install, I was adding various packages to load and one was called "Xfishtank", and the description was something about it being (IIRC) a 3D aquarium possibly for the desktop. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone ever use this?? I am in KDE. Later. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 it's all over google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepse Posted February 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Oh sure, Google's my homepage and I didn't even think of that. Anyway, the one thing I noticed is that there is a comment about it turning your " Xroot" into an aquarium" .? What exactly would I be doing?? I assume I go to root to run this program. Then it sounds like something for people that don't use a GUI. ????????????? Later. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 xroot is your wallpaper / background xfishatnk is a animation thinking of swimming fishes that you can use as a wallpaper (xroot) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepse Posted February 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 OK, I downloaded a tar.gz file but I cannot remember how to do a tar.gz. Where can I find a tutorial for unpacking any tar.gz files?? Later. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 xfishtank is on one of the 9.0 cd's. just open a terminal>su as root> and run urpmi xfishtank Or, use the Software Mgr. if you really want to do the tarball thing on a rpm based distro, look at man tar or tar --help Or, use ark, or file-roller for a gui extractor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 tar xzf file.tar.gz then read the README file with less README hit q to quit less Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 it was already installed on my system, kinda goofy :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 My kids like it...makes for a fun wallpaper for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 I tried it with the -p option for putting my own background in place. In this case, a very nice picture of clouds... nice contrast! I wish the fish were a better quality, but he does provide a number of ways to get yoru own imported.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 you guys might also want to look into the Atlantis xscreensaver, I think it can be run in the root window as a wallpaper/background too --- I might be wrong though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepse Posted February 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Well first of all, while I was waiting for my wife to get done with the 'net on her computer I looked thru some my notes and found a "basis" for tar.gz's and I went to a console and did: tar xvzf xfishtank-2.1tp.tar.gz and it it unpacked but that is about all I can say to that. I had downloaded the file and put it in a directory as to extract it there. I couldn't figure out how to get to the README file so I didn't do anything else. As for the suggestion of: urpmi xfishtank I did that and the reply is: everything already installed . Sure, great, now where is it?? I have looked thru everthing possible in my K menu and can't see anything related to that program. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Hmmm... try opening a terminal, and typing: where xfish this will tell you if you have xfish installed, and where it is installed --- here is an example, using whereis and transcode, since I don't have where or xfish sh-2.05b$ whereis transcode transcode: /usr/bin/transcode /usr/lib/transcode /usr/local/bin/transcode /usr/local/lib/transcode /usr/man/man1/transcode.1 sh-2.05b$ you can then use this info to modify your menus manually. I also don't have KDE installed at the moment, but there is a KDE application that finds old, non-KDE apps and adds them to the menu - kappfinder, I think it's called - I seem to remember that it locates things like xfish and xsnow and whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepse Posted February 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Well, I typed in "whereis xfishtank" and the reply is: xfishtank: /usr/X11R6/bin/xfishtank /usr/bin/X11/xfishtank . So I typed in that line and all I can say is that there was a flash in the background and the icon in "console" is in (what I call) a searching state; but nothing happened to my desktop. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 ok, you have it. what you need to do is run man xfishtank or xfishtank --usage one thing you might want to do right off is (I haven't done this for a while, so I don't know if it will work) 1. open a terminal 2. type xfishtank -root (maybe --root) and don't use a & or anything to put it into the background. 3. if it works great as expected, great, just send it into the background with a ctrl-z & bg [return] -- if not, just use ctrl-c to terminate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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