Hi Seb,

Have you tried the xplanet -vroot option?

I also noticed that on the xplanet page, there is a pointer to a script for the
E17 window manager, maybe you could look at that for enlightenment (pardon the
pun)[1].

Darren.

[1] - E17 = enlightenment...

Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Darren Kenny wrote:
>> Hi Seb,
>>
>> Not sure how to make Compiz do what you want, but there may be a 
>> workaround...
>>
>> If your using GNOME and just want to change the background image, you could 
>> do
>> this using GConf...
>>
>> e.g
>>
>> gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename <path>
>>
>> Of course this also assumes that you configure it to render an image on the
>> background - you can do this in the Background tab in 
>> gnome-appearance-properties.
> 
> Unfortunately, the application I'm using (xplanet) is drawing directly to 
> the root window every N seconds.  This works just fine with vanilla 
> Gnome, as I can tell Nautilus to not draw the desktop (with gconf).  I 
> don't think there's a way to get xplanet to call gconftool to draw the 
> background (yikes)...
> 
> -Seb

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