Prank - Wanda the fish

Written on December 2nd, 2009 at 19:09 pm by shredder12

If the victim is using Gnome, then free “Wanda the fish” . Press Alt-F2 and enter "free the fish".

You will then see a fish swimming on the screen. If you click it, the fish will get scared and run away (oops..sorry swim away ).

But the most annoying feature of this fish is that it will keep on coming back again and again and you won't be able to kill it until you reboot. The process of this swimming fish is hidden somewhere among the gnome processes. So, the only way out is reboot(that's the only way i know ).

2 Comments

cracky

December 18th, 2009 04:29 pm

You need not restart the system to make Wanda (the GNOME fish) go away.

$ killall gnome-panel

should do the trick (note the fish is hidden in the process of gnome-panel). It will disappear after restarting the panel.

The fish was taken from the movie 'A Fish Called Wanda' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095159/)

dbunic | www.redips.net (not verified)

December 19th, 2010 04:05 am

Hi, I can't find how to "free the fish" from the terminal (command line). My idea is to free Wanda on my wifes computer but through ssh. Is there any way to send a signal or switch to the gnome-panel? Does dbus has to be used? Any info will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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