Xplanet on Ubuntu
Several years ago, I always used xearth to render my desktop background.
However, when I started using Nautilus, it broke, and I never bothered to find a solution.
Today I realised that xearth has been replaced by xplanet, and it’s available as an Ubuntu package. And it’s beautiful!
However, the Nautilus problem remains: The window manager controls the background, so a program cannot write straight to it. The solution is to render a file and then ask Nautilus to reload it at regular intervals.
Fortunately, somebody written a script that does this, and one can download it here. Just remember to change the PREFIX to a path that exists.
Man kan da også bare bruge OSXPlanet, der kan man zoome ind og sætte byer på, og se skyer og ovenikøbet også se ISS’es bane 😉
Nåå – du bruger ikke OS X, din stakkel ;M)
Jeg tror faktisk, xplanet kan det samme (og vise andre planeter end Jorden) – man skal bare finde de relevante datafiler et sted.
Stupid question maybe but where do you have to put the script? I’ve downloaded it recently and tried to use it but with no luck so far :(. Without the script I do get to see xplanet working very briefly whenever I log out.
Yes, you see it when Nautilus exits.
I think you can put it anywhere, but you have to remember to run it, preferably automatically when you log in.