25 March 2007For anyone who might have tryed before following my tutorial but with no success, I’ve made a major update. So go to the link below and read the new changes. Basically, if it didn’t work, you just needed a dll file available from the Dream Aquarium Windows 200 download page. Read more on my How-to in Spiral Monkey’s website. I created a preconfigured Crossover Bottle too. You can downlad it from Here. Then go to the how to andinstall the bottle into Crossover, set the resolution and Dream Aquarium is redy to rock!!!! My post even became a sticky on the Forum 🙂
19 April 2007
The User Neaveru created a post in his blog where he’s working on a way to have Dream Aquarium working as a desktop animated background, after installing it with my How-to! I suggest you to jump on his forum and have a look at the nice youtube video and pics he posted! Nice work Neaveru, everyone of us was wishing to have DA working that way! 🙂
20 April 2007
On a post I created in the Ubuntu Forum you can find some nice indications on how to run Dream Aquarium on Wine with the Manual Installation of my how-to, instead of using Crossover. You can read the post here.
20 April 2007
If you’re looking for a way to automatically have Dream Aquarium installed in your Linux PC, then just read this post of mine. You’ll be ready in no more than 5 minutes 🙂
16 August 2007
Weird, seems like I didn’t update this post the moment the good news happened…. Well, let’s do it now. Neaveru really succeeded some time ago to have Dream Aquarium and ANY OTHER WINE application run as a desktop background in Linux using a composite manager such as Beryl and a tool he created! For a complete how-to on how to achieve this amazing result and have, for example, DreamAquarium as a desktop screensaver, READ MY GUIDE HERE!
Ever dreamed about having an Aquarium inside the Beryl Cube? I did, for real. I mean that, some nights ago, I really dreamed about having a 3D aquarium inside my Beryl Cube… but it was a dream. then I woke up and posted on the Beryl Forum about this dream:
So everybody sayd it was impossible. Well, I did something very similar to it. The aquarium is not INTO the Cube, ok, but at lest it is ON the cube! 🙂
There are no decent Aquarium Screensaver for Linux. Atlantis is the only one and it is really… well, I don’t whant to insult anyone 🙁 So I started from this problem and decided that I had to make a Windows Aquarium Screensaver work under Linux. Wine is out there, so, no problem about it… not exactly.
I had a look around and Dream Aquarium looked like the best Aquarium Screensaver around by far. Now everyone can have a fantastic Aquarium on they’re Beryl Cube, since I also wrote an how-to in the Dream Aqaurium Forum! So, what are you waiting for? Download this gorgeous Screensaver and start building your Cube aquarium!
Here’s a pair of youtube videos I created using the Video Capture Plugin for Beryl… fantastic plugin, have a look at it too.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I used your tutorial to install Dream Aquarium. I’m also in the middle of writing a small program to have it run in the background like xwinwrap. Take a look at my blog for some screen shots.
Hi, I’m very glad about it 🙂
I read your blog… you should really post my nickname and links instead of saying “Someone”, you know…. Could you fix it in your post?
Hello again, I’ve updated my blog and changed the links a bit too. I’ve also got a tutorial on how to make Dream Aquarium run in the background.
On a different note, I noticed you’re pretty good with graphics. I was thinking what would be a nice background for beryl would be to have something that when you see it in a cube, the corner looks like its meant to flow. You know what I mean, sort of like the right side of the wallpaper would flow together with the left side. Do you know of any good wallpaper like that?
Cheers!
http://neaveru.blogspot.com
Thanks for the links and for posting my nickname.
I tryed your tool and it works perfectly, it is really something incredible, I’m running DA as a desktop wallpaper right now. I also posted a nice youtube video and am now going to post an How-To modifyed from your version (That uses wine) so that even Crossover users can achieve the same result. You know, since I also made available a preconfigured bottle, this is going to become really simple! I think I’ll also post a binary version of you file, for those who don’e whant to compile it (Woah, what a pain to compile this tool! (Sarcastic) 😉 Works immediately!)
As for the other question, what do you mean by “Flow”? yeah, I’m pretty skilled with graphics but are talking about a wallpaper that looks like beying continued on the other face of the cube without interruptions? Something like that?
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Hi,
that is very nice. It works great on my new openSuse 10.3 with wine.
But when i turn on xgl (gnome-xgl-switch) to use compiz it doesn’t work anymore. It gives the error:
err:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps GL_Extensions returns NULL
err:d3d:InitAdapters Failed to initialize gl caps for default adapter
err:wine_d3d:WineDirect3DCreate Direct3D8 is not available without opengl
Wow, weird… looks like Compiz in XGL sucks Opengl away from Wine??? Really weird! maybe you should report it to the Wine or Compiz projects.
All very nice . . . will this work in Ubuntu Gutsy ?
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Got anything that makes DA run in a separate window on Windows XP? Or as a background?
Sorry all that is in this post is about Linux.
Hi there!
I really want to use the screensaver, but when I try to run it using wine, I get the following error:
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 156 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 438
Current serial number in output stream: 438
Do you have any idea on how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!