xpenguins

Running and flying penguins on your desktop

Brought to you by: willem_vermin

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Last Update: 2026-01-10

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Xpenguins is a program for animating cute cartoons/animals in your root window.

By default it will be penguins - they drop in from the top of the screen, walk along the tops of your windows, up the side of your windows, levitate, skateboard, and do other similarly exciting things. Be careful when you move windows as the little guys squash easily.

Features

Runs on most desktops: FVWM, Gnome, KDE, LXDE, ...
Graphical user interface

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Background (C) 2021 Roel van Straten

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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