[gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?
Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. Star moves in the sky all the time: 1) the star map in 20:00 is different from 21:00 2) the star map in today 20:00 is different from what it was yesterday 20:00 3) the star map in one city is different from in another city at the same time I am looking for an application dynamically change the backgroup of my gnome desktop, showing the correct starmap of the very city I am in, of the very day and correct moment. That might require the desktop image being replaced once 15 miniutes, that doesn't matter, that's what I need. Just U am too stupid to find it on the google, have anyone heard of such application before? The cloeset I could find is nightfall http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Wichmann/Nightfall.html But still, that is too complicated and very accurite, what I really want is some fancy desktop decoration, and it's so much of a waste not having such a tool in an office that can see part of the sky. -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department):0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼 邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005） -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?
KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image generation. It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then set it as the background. dcm On 6/14/06, 张 �|武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. Star moves in the sky all the time: 1) the star map in 20:00 is different from 21:00 2) the star map in today 20:00 is different from what it was yesterday 20:00 3) the star map in one city is different from in another city at the same time I am looking for an application dynamically change the backgroup of my gnome desktop, showing the correct starmap of the very city I am in, of the very day and correct moment. That might require the desktop image being replaced once 15 miniutes, that doesn't matter, that's what I need. Just U am too stupid to find it on the google, have anyone heard of such application before? The cloeset I could find is nightfall http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Wichmann/Nightfall.html But still, that is too complicated and very accurite, what I really want is some fancy desktop decoration, and it's so much of a waste not having such a tool in an office that can see part of the sky. -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department):0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼 邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005） -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?
Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 17:30 +0800, 张 韡武 a écrit : Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. I think the keyword to google at is planetarium. I woulsd be interested to hear of your final solution, even if I'm too lazy to do it myself. Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?
Devon Miller wrote: KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image generation. It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then set it as the background. dcm You can do the scripting using DCOP to change the background. Here's an intro: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-dcop/?ca=dgr-kdeml01KDEDCOP HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:30:04PM +0800, Penguin Lover ??? ?? squawked: Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. The word you are looking for is 'chart', as in 'star chart'. Google for 'star chart wallpaper linux' or some phrase like that. Star moves in the sky all the time: 1) the star map in 20:00 is different from 21:00 2) the star map in today 20:00 is different from what it was yesterday 20:00 3) the star map in one city is different from in another city at the same time I am looking for an application dynamically change the backgroup of my gnome desktop, showing the correct starmap of the very city I am in, of the very day and correct moment. That might require the desktop image being replaced once 15 miniutes, that doesn't matter, that's what I need. I don't know if any program of your specification is available, but for KDE at least you can run a graphic program in the root window and use that as a desktop image, thought I don't know about gnome. Try looking at some of the following to see if you can at least use it to meet your needs: xephem: http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ pp3: http://pp3.sourceforge.net/ kstars (yes, I know you are running gnome): http://edu.kde.org/kstars/ Mag 7 star charts: http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1052 If you don't care too much about accuracy, some elementary mathematics plus the Mag 7 star charts, a cron job, and an image viewer with ability to set the background image (like qiv or xli) should allow you to dynamically switch the background image to the roughly correct star chart. W -- Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 4 days, 18:25 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?
Devon Miller wrote: KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image generation. It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then set it as the background. I always hoped for Celestia to have this functionality. It would be wonderful to follow, let's say, Cassini from my desktop :) m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
