Sorry, my English is very bad.

PlanetBG for Linux? Is the best controller for XP and it haven't for my Ubuntu... Jollll

Thanks.

Hello Perez,

there is no winXplanetBG for Linux. You can use the config file, generated by winXplanetBG, with your xplanet in Ubuntu.

Greetings,
Markus

When you need a script to run xplanet and update your background in gnome, I have one. When you need one for KDE, I'm sorry

I am using ubuntu 8.04 with gnome desktop.

Markus

I'm using ubuntu 8.04 too with Gnome desktop. Thanks for your script. Where is it?


Un saludo.

Thanks

Here is the script. I found it somewhere out there in the web.

#!/bin/bash
#xplanet-gnome.sh shell script v0.2
#shows Earth on your Gnome desktop with current lighting conditions,i.e. day and night

DELAY=10m

PREFIX=/tmp/
OUTPUT=xplanet.png
APPEND=2

GEOMETRY=1600x1200
LONGITUDE=15
LATITUDE=30
#default is no projection,i.e. render a globe
#rectangular is the flat world map. also try ancient, azimuthal, mercator,..
#PROJECTION=rectangular

#rename background image so Gnome realises image has changed - thx to dmbasso

if [ -e "$PREFIX$OUTPUT" ]; then
rm "$PREFIX$OUTPUT"
OUTPUT="$APPEND$OUTPUT"
else
rm "$PREFIX$APPEND$OUTPUT"
fi

if [ -z $PROJECTION ]; then
xplanet -num_times 1 -output "$PREFIX$OUTPUT" -geometry $GEOMETRY -longitude $LONGITUDE -latitude $LATITUDE
else
xplanet -num_times 1 -output "$PREFIX$OUTPUT" -geometry $GEOMETRY -longitude $LONGITUDE -latitude $LATITUDE -projection $PROJECTION
fi

#update Gnome backgound
gconftool -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "$PREFIX$OUTPUT"

sleep $DELAY
exec $0

OK.

Thanks.

Un Saludo.