desktop earth for linux

[trash]

I'd love to see this happen but right now it's only available for windows.. any chance of getting it to work in linux?

http://www.codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth.aspx

[buck2825]

I saw this in one of the full circle magazines and had to have it. same problem only available for *******. I'm not a master programmer dispite what my friends and family think, i just know how to get the results I want.

the original updates as the year goes by (more snow in canida) and you can have the program update cloud cover every 3 hours.

my fix does not update cloud cover, and the images are the same year round. but the time updates.


So I install this on my dual boot system changed my system time to every hour on the hour and half hour and saved 48 images. I then copied the xml script from /usr/share/backgounds/cosmos and modified it to fit what I needed. it works quite well I think, at lease good enough for me.

If you port the full program please let me know as I would prefer that but this is all the effort I'm putting into a wallpaper.

http://www.2shared.com/file/u8M5RJX6/earthtar.html

[mister_p_1998]

Not very many pop-ups there, can we have a few more please.....

[bra|10n]

Wow that looks great
But let me point you to something just a little more mind-blowing... and just a little closer to home.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=245

Now it won't be long until this little gem rotates in real time showing live data on your desk.
Have a nice day, or night... depending on the co-ordinates you've entered I guess

[3rdalbum]

KDE has that.

[buck2825]

I just noticed that the upload is missing about 18 images I will reconvert and upload. anyone know of a site with a few less pop ups?

Edit:
Found one

http://rapidshare.com/files/389968066/earth.zip.html

[buck2825]

[trash]

can you be a bit more specific, i've found nothing in KDE like this. There is a desktop image switcher but thats all i've found

KDE has that.

[GeneralZod]

can you be a bit more specific, i've found nothing in KDE like this. There is a desktop image switcher but thats all i've found

He's referring to the Marble wallpaper plugin, which embeds the Marble globe into your desktop. It has a projection view, sunlight, and updating cloud cover. It's pretty heavyweight, though: the most common use case is as a 3D globe like Google Earth, and (last time I checked) wasn't optimised at all for the much simpler case where it just has to show a 2D projection (it used about 70MB of RAM, or something silly like that!)

Here's an old screenshot of mine:

http://img131.imageshack.us/i/kde4ma...lpaperxl5.png/

[3rdalbum]

He's referring to the Marble wallpaper plugin, which embeds the Marble globe into your desktop. It has a projection view, sunlight, and updating cloud cover. It's pretty heavyweight, though: the most common use case is as a 3D globe like Google Earth, and (last time I checked) wasn't optimised at all for the much simpler case where it just has to show a 2D projection (it used about 70MB of RAM, or something silly like that!)

Ahh, I had no idea it was heavyweight. When you've got 6 GiB of RAM you don't tend to notice a process using 70 MiB

My favourite view is the archaic map, I love it. Unfortunately I'm back on Gnome.