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uba704
January 30th, 2011, 10:00 AM
Hi,
I'm running Kubuntu 10.04 and have activated the interactive map wallpaper.
Anyone know if it is possible to install Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/) as an interactive wallpaper instead?
Thanks!
uba704
February 19th, 2011, 03:56 PM
Or maybe just have some web browser as background - then I could point it to http://maps.google.com/ - anyone know if that is possible?
ankspo71
February 19th, 2011, 08:35 PM
Hi,
Try using one of the web browser type plasmoids. They can be resized to fit the whole desktop.
The "Web Browser" plasmoid can display http://maps.google.com/ just fine, but it has the default homepage of http://kde.org/, so every time it starts it shows kde.org. I tried searching my system but I can't figure out how or where to change its homepage. You might need 'kdeplasma-addons' to be installed in order to have Web Browser plasmoid.
More KDE plasmoids can be found at http://kde-apps.org/.
Search the site for "SmoothWebView", "Web Snipplet", and "Web Fetch" and other plasmoids.
If you download a *.plasmoid package, you can try installing them by using this example command in the terminal:
plasmapkg -i /path/to/file.plasmoid
Some plasmoids might require compiling the package yourself too, like this:
http://kde-look.org/help/index.php?type=70
tar -xvf plasmoid.tar.gz
cd plasmoid
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..
make
sudo make install OR su -c "make install"
Have fun! :-)
if not they should have instructions inside the package you downloaded.
Hope this plasmoid idea helps. :D
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