Paul Crowley (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ciphergoth) wrote2001-07-06 05:04 pm
ciphergoth) wrote2001-07-06 05:04 pm
Down with the fish!
A fish just swam across my screen.
Wanda the GNOME fish, to be precise.
It took maybe 20 seconds to cross the screen. In that time, I managed to fire up xkill, and took three potshots at it, I think I hit all three times but it somehow didn't die; I don't know if there's some weird interaction with the SHAPE extension there. I don't know how to make a window survive xkill. I knew I'd seen it before, and it turns out to be Wanda the GNOME fish, as I can confirm by running the GNOME "fortune" applet.
This means that something I'm running has some stupid Easter Egg built in, but I'm damned if I can work out what. It's not LoserJabber, which was my first thought; or if it is, they've hidden the string "fish" in the sources.
Bah. I don't expect my software to piss me about, even rarely.
(Update: I found it. It's in the Gnome Panel, and it was put there by George Lebl. *sigh*.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2001-May/msg00342.html )
Wanda the GNOME fish, to be precise.
It took maybe 20 seconds to cross the screen. In that time, I managed to fire up xkill, and took three potshots at it, I think I hit all three times but it somehow didn't die; I don't know if there's some weird interaction with the SHAPE extension there. I don't know how to make a window survive xkill. I knew I'd seen it before, and it turns out to be Wanda the GNOME fish, as I can confirm by running the GNOME "fortune" applet.
This means that something I'm running has some stupid Easter Egg built in, but I'm damned if I can work out what. It's not LoserJabber, which was my first thought; or if it is, they've hidden the string "fish" in the sources.
Bah. I don't expect my software to piss me about, even rarely.
(Update: I found it. It's in the Gnome Panel, and it was put there by George Lebl. *sigh*.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2001-May/msg00342.html )
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OTOH, let's not have a flame war.
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