[PLUG] GNOME2 Background

Sean Whitney sean at fork.com
Sun Feb 23 17:24:01 UTC 2003


This script seems to have made a lot of my MAC and Windows user friends 
envious of linux.


#!/bin/sh
rm /tmp/xplanet-*.jpg;
FNAME=xplanet-`date +%s`.jpg &&
 
find ~/.xplanet -name clouds_2000.jpg -cmin +180 -exec rm {} \;
cd ~/.xplanet
 
if  ! [ -f clouds_2000.jpg ]; then
        wget -t0 -c -np -nd http://xplanet.lightbearer.com/clouds_2000.jpg
        xplanet -image earth.jpg -cloud_image clouds_2000.jpg  -shade 100 
-output day-clouds.jpg -geometry 1600x1200
        xplanet -image night.jpg -cloud_image clouds_2000.jpg    -cloud_shade 
30 -output night-clouds.jpg -geometry 1600x1200
fi
nice -n19 xplanet -mapdir ~/.xplanet/ -image day-clouds.jpg -night_image 
night-clouds.jpg -blend -output /tmp/$FNAME -geometry 1600x1200 -proj 
rectangular  &&
gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename 
/tmp/$FNAME


Combine this script with  

*/5     *       *       *       *       /home/sean/bin/xplanetbg-gnome > 
/dev/null 2>&1


Works great.  I'm sure this script could be cleaned up a little.

Sean




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