XPENGUINS - cool little penguins walking along the tops of your windows
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000  Robin Hogan
Latest version: 1.2 (22 May 2000)


INTRODUCTION

XPenguins is a simple program that animates a number of penguins that
fall from the top of the screen, walk along the top of windows, up
the side of windows, up the side of the screen, and sometimes even
levitate with their genetically-modified go-go-gadget 'copter
ability. Use the `-h' option to see a list of current options -
currently you can specify the display to send the penguins to, the
delay between frames and the number of penguins that are created.


LICENSE

This program is released under the GNU public license - see COPYING


TODO

Write GUI front end(s) - the first will be an applet for GNOME, but
with a little modularisation of the code it should be easy to write
GUIs for other environments (KDE etc) and update them all together. 

Add some more penguin types.

I'd also be interested to see derivatives of this program that use
other toons completely - e.g. Buzz Lightyear, Sonic the Hedgehog, The
Simpsons etc. 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Inspiration was provided by Rick Jansen <rick@sara.nl> in the form of
the classic `xsnow'.

The penguin images were taken from `Pingus', a free lemmings clone
for Linux (http://pingus.seul.org/), and were designed by Joel Fauche
<joel.fauche@wanadoo.fr>. 

Xpenguins uses vroot.h for use with some `virtual' window managers.
vroot.h is copyright 1991 by Andreas Stolcke, copyright 1990 by
Solbourne Computer Inc. <stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>. 


AUTHOR

Robin Hogan <R.J.Hogan@reading.ac.uk>

The xpenguins homepage is  located at: 
	http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~swrhgnrj/xpenguins/


SEE ALSO

Michael Vines <isamu@neomueller.org> has rewritten the program for
Microsoft Windows and called it `WinPenguins' - visit: 
	http://neomueller.org/~isamu/winpenguins/ 

