Re: [Hampshire] Xearth and Ubuntu desktop

----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel Penn" <sam@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 3:31 PM
Subject: 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

Thanks for that. Got it working fine now.

Cheers
Rob