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

http://www.codefromthe70s.org/images/desktopearth_anim_two.gif

[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?p=9088582&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 :popcorn:

[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/kde4marblewallpaperxl5.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 :-P

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

[Marlonsm]

That site also has an online generator.
Isn't it possible for someone to make a script that downloads and updates the wallpaper every hour or so?

[radiac93]

I really would apreciate if someone made something desktop earth, earthview, etc. - alike! I've been looking for it like hell!
It excists for windows(--") and even for mac os x!
(ps: can't you addapt the mac file to install on ubuntu? :p)

[Baldrick_NZ]

This works perfectly for me. It has the added bonus of showing world weather in real time too. The script updates every half hour, meaning lower resources are required.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1514926

Check it out, and let us know what you think..

[LinuxPhreak]

That is one major problem with GNOME. I've noticed that it usually only supports images as wallpapers. I remember reading a while back on this forum where someone wanted to add a web page as wallpaper. The solution in that problem was replace nautilus with KDE variant of Nautilus. I can't stand KDE myself so please pardon me for not knowing the name of it.

The only solution I can think of is writing a script alot the same way the one of the posters pasted the link to. The script would rotate images as wallpapers depending on the time of the day.

[Lokasenna]

Here is one tutorial I've been able to follow with relative success:

http://rbrusu.com/xplanet-desktop-wallpape.html

The one thing I haven't been able to do is get it to display the cloud cover. I decided to just go with the default cloud image (despite what that guy says about the clouds at the poles), and it downloads just fine - it just doesn't appear to be used when the 'earth.jpg' file is generated for use as the background image.

So if any of you can get the clouds to work, if you could share how I'd be greatly appreciative ;).

I'm on 10.04.