Re: [Hampshire] Xearth and Ubuntu desktop

On Sunday 18 February 2007 09:38, Rob Malpass wrote:
> I'm running gnome. I thought getting xearth to output a gif would be the
> answer - but to the best of my knowledge, this is a one-off. E.g. if I
> run
>
> xearth -gif > output.gif
>
> then it will produce the current picture and stop. Presumably there's
> some way of getting xearth to keep updating, but how do I tell gnome to
> display the latest image?

Under Gnome, I don't know. Like I said, KDE has a backdrop option to
use the output of a program. Gnome may well have something similar.
Go to wherever you configure the desktop background, and look to see
if there are any advanced options which do something similar.

Looking on Google, I've found the following for Ubuntu. It's meant for
xplanet (which is a better xearth), but will probably work with xearth
with a few modifications.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2094157

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