there are lots of 'live' sequential sources that would make great desktop backgrounds: weather radar, ISS streams, webcams, and even solar timelapse sources at NASA.
would it be possible to allow changing the desktop picture from a 'live' source acquiring the new feed in the background?
cool solar photos at: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html
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It's certainly possible and it looks fairly easy:
Write a script that does the following
- Wake up every x minutes,
- Use wget to download the image
- Replace the background.
You don't have to start from scratch. Mark (MU) posted a screen saver script. You can use most of that code.
You can also look at any of the JWM themes background replacement scripts to see how the replacement is done.
Write a script that does the following
- Wake up every x minutes,
- Use wget to download the image
- Replace the background.
You don't have to start from scratch. Mark (MU) posted a screen saver script. You can use most of that code.
You can also look at any of the JWM themes background replacement scripts to see how the replacement is done.