Two Gnome Easter Eggs: “free the fish” and “gegls from outer space”

There are funny Gnome easter eggs. One is “free the fish”, and another one is “gegls from outer space”.

“free the fish” in Gnome 2

  1. Press Alt+F2 to open “Run Application” dialog
  2. Enter “free the fish”
  3. Hit Enter

“geglx from outer space” in Gnome 2

  1. Press Alt+F2 to open “Run Application” dialog
  2. Enter “gegls from outer space”
  3. Hit Enter

“free the fish” in Gnome 3

“free the fish” is also available in Gnome 3.

It will give you a “wisdom” phrase.

You can run it on Shell by typing on search “free the fish”.

Note: you will need the fortune program with is in the package “fortune-mod” and you will need to install it.

Eric Ma

Eric is a systems guy. Eric is interested in building high-performance and scalable distributed systems and related technologies. The views or opinions expressed here are solely Eric's own and do not necessarily represent those of any third parties.

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