About:
xmountains is a classic X11 hack that renders a fractally-generated mountain range that slowly scrolls across your desktop.

Author:
Stephen Booth [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.47/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://www2.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~spb/xmountains/
Tar/GZ:
http://www2.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~spb/xmountains/xmountains_2.7.tar.gz
Demo site:
http://www2.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~spb/javamountains/javamountains.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		Freely Distributable
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Games/Entertainment, Multimedia :: Graphics

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.7	26-Sep-2004	Freely Distributable

 Comments

[»] nice program but needs work
by George Gesslein II - May 28th 2006 22:13:26

Fix xmountains so I can relax to beautiful snow
covered mountains smooth-scrolling across full screen,
please. When I ran it, I noticed a number of bugs and
it wouldn't smooth-scroll. This would be a very nice
program if the bugs were worked out of it. Thanks
for your work so far.

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[»] Re: nice program but needs work
by Stephen Booth - May 29th 2006 01:42:45


> Fix xmountains so I can relax to

> beautiful snow

> covered mountains smooth-scrolling

> across full screen,

> please. When I ran it, I noticed a

> number of bugs and

> it wouldn't smooth-scroll. This would

> be a very nice

> program if the bugs were worked out of

> it. Thanks

> for your work so far.


Thank you for your interest in xmountains. Its nice to see that people still find it interesting over 10 years after I wrote it. I'm afraid that the problems with the scrolling are because most X servers are not optimised for horizontal scrolling, it works better on some platforms than others.

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