Free the fish cause screensaver to flicker and lag

[Fred]

So I pressed Alt+F2 and up came "Run application" dialog.
So I typed "free the fish" and pressed enter, and this cute little goldfish came and swam across the screen.

So I pressed Ctrl+Alt+L and started the screensaver (Fireworks).
But now I noticed that the fish was flickering on the screensaver and the rockets were lagging. :(

[Dariel Dato-on (odd-rationale)]

That's what you get for freeing the fish!!

Probably, you should "kill the fish" before you start the screensaver. To kill the fish do Alt+F2 and and type "killall gnome-panel" (your panels will come back...).

Hope that helps!

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Well, I think that the fish shouldn't make the screensaver lag.
I think it should be fixed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, the ubuntu team doesn't have the ressources to work on fixing upstream special jokes, open a bug on bugzilla.gnome.org if you really think that's an issue

[Tiago Silva (tiagosilva)]

2010 has arrived. The fish doesn't lag but it still does flicker the screen saver and the lock screen.
Perhaps we should consider to remove these GNOME "easter eggs".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

or perhaps we should care about real bugs rather than discussing cleaning easter eggs bugs or code there

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

to be clear I don't think the bug is worth spending efforts

[Tiago Silva (tiagosilva)]

Nor is worth making "easter eggs" that cause issues.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the easter egg is not coming from ubuntu though