Want to have a little bit of fun with your Gnome desktop? here are a few easter eggs for you.
First, hit the Alt-F2 keys together to bring up the Run Applications dialog.
Type “gegls from outer space” (sans quotes) and hit the enter key. You should get the below game, a la space invaders.
Next, try typing “free the fish” (sans quotes) into the Run Applications box. You’ll get Wanda on your desktop. Here she is checking out my Zen Stone.
If you have any other Gnome, KDE or Ubuntu easter eggs, feel free to post them here.
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June 26th, 2007 at 2:04 am
Okay smarty pants… how do you DISABLE Wanda once she starts swimming around? I can click on her and she’ll shoot off-screen, only to return a while later. She’s fun but I need to put her to bed without having to shut down GNOME. Or do I?
Peace
Tim
June 26th, 2007 at 2:31 am
You’ll have to run this command to disable the fish, which will restart your gnome panels, but not your applications.
killall gnome-panel
Doesn’t seem to be an off switch, and it doesn’t run as a separate process either.
June 26th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Tim,
Fire up the terminal and do “killall gnome-panel” and Wanda should disappear.
Neat easter eggs by the way!
June 26th, 2007 at 11:13 am
God damn it, just click on the damn fish and it swims away!
for a while atleast
June 26th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Wow. In all my time online, this is the first anyone’s called me ‘smarty pants’.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Just amazing!! I like that fish!! It’s funny xD
June 26th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
just click the fish and it will swim off screen and go away, there is no need to kill the panel
June 26th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Hell, I knew Linux would be hit by viruses one day.
June 27th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Here’s another easter egg. In a terminal, type:
zenity –about
Now, with Zenity’s “About” dialog focused, type:
zen
A new window will open, containing a wee guy with fashion accessories to drag n’ dress :^)
Tim M.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
GDM has also a couple easter eggs, I can’t make the first two to work on Ubuntu Feisty, but the 3rd one keeps me laughing.
Type
“Start Dancing” or “Stop Dancing”
“Gimme Random Cursor”
“Require Quarter”
May 29th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Dear “Tim”:
To disable that annoying Wanda, press alt and f2 together to open up run app, and then type “pkill gnome-pane” Minus quotation marks of course, and that should clear it up.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Right click on the fish and it will go away
June 29th, 2010 at 3:42 am
Amazing game, will save it till next Christmas. Then it’ll be right in time!
November 1st, 2010 at 11:25 am
Oh! This is funny! I didn’t think there can be any easter eggs in Gnome.
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