Darren Kenny wrote: > A quick look at xplanet and I can see the -output param - you could use that > to > render to a PNG and then use the "-post" option to run a script to update the > background... > > Maybe .. :)
Yes, this works. It's a hack, but it works! I wrote a little script to wrap this up: IMAGEFILE=/export/home/seb/Pictures/planet.png GCONFKEY=/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename POSTCMD="gconftool-2 -s -t string $GCONFKEY $IMAGEFILE" /usr/local/bin/xplanet -projection rectangular -config overlay_clouds -output $IMAGEFILE -geometry 1920x1200 -post "$POSTCMD" I'm not sure what nasty performance implications there are to be calling gconftool-2 to set the background like this, but since it only happens every few minutes, maybe it's not a big deal. Thanks for the hints! -Seb
