Re: html as background
From Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 09:13:20AM -0600: This is what I am trying to do-- but automatically from a console. Galeon will save as *.ps file. But does w3m,links, or wget save as *.ps file? How can I write a script (bash, perl) to go to a website and dump the html page as a *.ps file (or gif,jpeg...)? I am basically trying to get a local weather forecast off the web and use it as a background on my desktop. ---end quoted text--- You can also use xearth (or is it xplanet?) and suck down current images of the cloud layer which you overlay on top a globe on the root window. You can have that globe stay on a particular longitute and latitude. There probably is also a way to download other weather numbers which you also place geographically on the globe. This sounds more interesting than html to me. To have a hires picture of the earth with a wide angle view of current cloud patterns and some weather data thrown in. I'm not positive about spraying the weather numbers on the globe. But I have done the bit with the cloud layer. It works great. Cheers, Steve -- \_O \_O \_O ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: html as background
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:39:52PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: myself, I have no idea what xv is. xv is a non-Free image viewer program. -rob msg10718/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: html as background
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 03:17:21PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: Thus you could start a stacked mozilla programme during startup and use the geometry flag to specify its exact co-ordinated from off the top-left somewhere to off the bottom right. Now what would be interesting is if someone stripped down Mozilla and crossed it with a post-it-notes type program that can run as the root window like xsnow. -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg10556/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: html as background
Hello Lance, On Nov 2, Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? Hmmm. Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a jpg or something, then set that to be the background? This is what I am trying to do-- but automatically from a console. Galeon will save as *.ps file. But does w3m,links, or wget save as *.ps file? How can I write a script (bash, perl) to go to a website and dump the html page as a *.ps file (or gif,jpeg...)? I am basically trying to get a local weather forecast off the web and use it as a background on my desktop. Lance -- Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~jason GPG key - 0EFB1DFE miguel `You have been unsubscribed from the high energy personal protection devices mailing list' miguel I dont remember getting into the mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: html as background
Hello Lance, On Nov 2, Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This is what I am trying to do-- but automatically from a console. | Galeon will save as *.ps file. But does w3m,links, or wget save as | *.ps file? How can I write a script (bash, perl) to go to a website | and dump the html page as a *.ps file (or gif,jpeg...)? | | I am basically trying to get a local weather forecast off the web | and use it as a background on my desktop. Check out the 'html2ps' package. You should be able to use wget or links -dump or whatever to grab the .html, then use html2ps to covert to ..ps. I don't know if you can use a .ps as a background image, but I'm sure you can convert .ps to .jpg pretty easily using like ImageMagick or something. Note that I haven't used html2ps - I only just found in using an apt-cache search. -Jason -- Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~jason GPG key - 0EFB1DFE msg10598/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: html as background
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello Lance, On Nov 2, Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? Hmmm. Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a jpg or something, then set that to be the background? This is what I am trying to do-- but automatically from a console. Galeon will save as *.ps file. But does w3m,links, or wget save as *.ps file? How can I write a script (bash, perl) to go to a website and dump the html page as a *.ps file (or gif,jpeg...)? I am basically trying to get a local weather forecast off the web and use it as a background on my desktop. Lance If you are only interessted in numbers,etc, not in graphics, you could also write a (perl)script, which downloads the site, extracts the information and prints them to an image, but this would be a piece of work. Burkhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: html as background
On 02-11-02 09:13 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: On Nov 2, Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? Hmmm. Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a jpg or something, then set that to be the background? This is what I am trying to do-- but automatically from a console. Galeon will save as *.ps file. But does w3m,links, or wget save as *.ps file? How can I write a script (bash, perl) to go to a website and dump the html page as a *.ps file (or gif,jpeg...)? This sounds a lot like something I read recently here: http://herzl.nylug.org/pipermail/nylug-talk/2002-August/005554.html myself, I have no idea what xv is. $ apt-file search xv gworkspace zsh-beta zsh $ apt-cache show gworkspace Package: gworkspace Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 4288 Maintainer: Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 0.3.4-3 Depends: gnustep-base1, gnustep-gui0 (= 0.7.6), gnustep-xgps0 (= 0.7.6) | gnustep-xdps0 (= 0.7.6), libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libffcall1, libgcc1 (= 1:3.0.3-1), libgmp3 (= 4.0.1), libobjc1 (= 1:3.0.3-1), libxml2 (= 2.4.0-1), zlib1g (= 1:1.1.4) Filename: pool/main/g/gworkspace/gworkspace_0.3.4-3_i386.deb Size: 1212118 MD5sum: 43b0cdac96ad62555b895885ef9e913e Description: Workspace Manager for GNUstep A clone of the file and application manager available on NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP used for managing files and starting applications. For more active desktop-like things, view the whole thread. There's a link to a Linux Journal article and two mentions of something called kwebdesktop -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: html as background
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 23:13, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello Lance, On Nov 2, Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? Hmmm. Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a jpg or something, then set that to be the background? This is what I am trying to do-- but automatically from a console. Galeon will save as *.ps file. But does w3m,links, or wget save as *.ps file? How can I write a script (bash, perl) to go to a website and dump the html page as a *.ps file (or gif,jpeg...)? I am basically trying to get a local weather forecast off the web and use it as a background on my desktop. htmldoc I have found to render HTML most beautifully as postscript. It has a gui but can also be launched scripted-style from the shell. Use lynx to download your webpage in your script as html. Use htmldoc to render it to postscript. And the pstools to turn the postscript into an image. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
html as background
Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: html as background
Hello Lance, On Nov 2, Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? Hmmm. Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a jpg or something, then set that to be the background? -- Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~jason GPG key - 0EFB1DFE miguel `You have been unsubscribed from the high energy personal protection devices mailing list' miguel I dont remember getting into the mailing list msg10524/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: html as background
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:22:42AM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? Hmmm. Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a jpg or something, then set that to be the background? I think the idea behind what he's trying to do is something similar to Microsoft's Active Deathtop. -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg10525/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Hello Paul, On Nov 1, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page | | as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? | | Hmmm. Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a jpg | or something, then set that to be the background? | | I think the idea behind what he's trying to do is something similar to | Microsoft's Active Deathtop. Oh. I didn't even think of that. I wonder if that's a sign that I'm really Windows-free? :) -- Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~jason GPG key - 0EFB1DFE Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx msg10527/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: html as background
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 14:12, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)? There are some window managers that allow you to set the windows as stacked. That is stuck to the bottom or top of the window stack. ie. Always on top or always on bottom. A patched version of blackbox does this, and you launch programmes in a stacked state with bblaunch. Thus you could start a stacked mozilla programme during startup and use the geometry flag to specify its exact co-ordinated from off the top-left somewhere to off the bottom right. eg. put in the .xsession file bblaunch -k 2 mozilla -geometry -10-50+1040x900 or whatever... This would replace a desktop mind you. You desktop and its icons are in the root window which is behind your new pseudo-root window. I don't know whether I'd do it like that (I think it would be better to bottom stack a shell window than a browser, or a transparent, borderless shell window showing a nice backdrop and the shell is tailing the system logs ...), but it certainly is possible. Check to see if windowmaker supports this feature. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
