06 January 1994 How to compile: --------------- xmkmf make depend make For Silicon Graphics: the man page xsnow.z can be moved to /usr/catman/u_man/cat1/X11/xsnow.z VMS --- This distribution contains a file 'make.com' to build Xsnow on VMS systems, and 'xsnow.hlp'. To build type '@make' in the xsnow directory. Another make.com is make2.com Virtual window managers ----------------------- For compatibility with virtual window managers Xsnow uses 'vroot.h', an include file that makes X programs compatible with window managers like swm and tvtwm. The complete vroot distribution is available from 'ftp.x.org' in the contrib directory as 'vroot.shar.Z'. Vroot was written by Andreas Stolcke , 9/7/90 and is copyright 1991 by Andreas Stolcke, copyright 1990 by Solbourne Computer Inc. Update history -------------- 1.22 Really building up snow at bottom of screen 1.22 A choice of Santa's. Thanks to Holger Veit (Holger.Veit@gmd.de) for Santa no. 2. Santa 1 was derived from 2 by scaling down. 1.23 Aaaargh! gnu C doesn't like the initialization of the new Santa pixmaps. Extra braces do the trick, which is so often the case 1.24 Deleted PaintSnowAtBottom. It's more of a surprise this way. 1.24 Bug removed with windows off-screen to the left 1.25 Rudolf's red nose. Silly. Grmbll. 1.25 Bug with -nokeepsnowonwindows removed 1.27 Bug with erasing snow on top of windows removed Erasing of snow at bottom of screen improved in case of expose event 1.30 Performance improved. Wind. 1.31 Make.com and xsnow.hlp for VMS 1.32 unsigned long snowDelay changed to long, as strtoul is troublesome Merry X-mas! Rick Jansen -- rick@sara.nl