{"id":359,"date":"2007-05-12T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=359"},"modified":"2007-05-12T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T15:12:00","slug":"xplanet-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/xplanet-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Xplanet on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/xplanet-739639.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/xplanet-739636.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Several years ago, I always used <tt>xearth<\/tt> to render my desktop background.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I started using Nautilus, it broke, and I never bothered to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>Today I realised that <tt>xearth<\/tt> has been replaced by <tt>xplanet<\/tt>, and it&#8217;s available as an Ubuntu package.  And it&#8217;s beautiful!<\/p>\n<p>However, the Nautilus problem remains: The window manager controls the background, so a program cannot write straight to it.  The solution is to render a file and then ask Nautilus to reload it at regular intervals.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, somebody written a script that does this, and one can download it <a href=\"http:\/\/stef.tvk.rwth-aachen.de\/~nazgul\/linux-hacks.php#xplanet-gnome2\">here<\/a>.  Just remember to change the <tt>PREFIX<\/tt> to a path that exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, I always used xearth to render my desktop background. However, when I started using Nautilus, it broke, and I never bothered to find a solution. Today I realised that xearth has been replaced by xplanet, and it&#8217;s available as an Ubuntu package. And it&#8217;s beautiful! However, the Nautilus problem remains: The window manager controls the background, so a program cannot write straight to it. The solution is to render a file and then ask Nautilus to reload it at regular intervals. Fortunately, somebody written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}