Quirky Wallpaper Series: Real Time Earth View Wallpaper

By , Published September 29, 2009

removed.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    Decisions, decisions… So many great things to have as wallpapers, I can’t decide :-D .

  • http://ubuntued.info/2009/09/wallpaper-com-o-globo-em-tempo-real.html Claudio Novais

    Hi!

    You should put the the information of the creator of this script, me! lol.

    Has you can see in my site, there’s is CC License, so you should refer the creator of this scipt.

    Best Regards,
    Cláudio Novais.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      At the time we were sent this script we weren’t made aware you were the creator – apologies! We get a lot of stuff dropped off in our inbox (as I’ve explained to you before). We put our faith in those contributing to the site to be truthful with us.

      I’ve now removed it.

  • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

    Cool script, though it would be even cooler if the clouds were also real time.

  • Anonymous

    It seems like it requires an internet connection to work though. Not overly ideal

  • Anonymous

    i turn from a fan of the last script to a fan of this one
    thanks :)

  • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

    Someone help me here. I obviously don’t see a “world_sunlight_Wallpaper.jpg” in gnome2. Am I supposed to download it someplace?

    • http://blog.devonlinux.net/ neuromancer

      run first changer.sh ;)

      • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

        Lol I’m embarrased to say I never bothered to get it working all this time. So.. how exactly do you run it? It seems to default to being run with WINE, which does nothing.

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          start from scratch; download the script, pop it in the folder, make it executable.

          you can make sure it’s been made executable by double-clicking on it – it should then ask you to display, run, run in a terminal, cancel (etc). If it still wants to open with wine then manually tell it to open with a terminal by right clicking > properties > opens with.

          Open a terminal and run the script.

          Right click desktop and choose “change desktop background” Leave the selection window open.

          go to .gnome2, find the world_sunlight wallpaper and then drag it into the wallpaper window. it should automatically set itself.

          that’s it – it should be running.

          Obviously you’ll need to either set the script to auto-update at intervals via cron, gnome-task scheduler or manually doing it. You won’t need to change the background as it will automatically change.

  • Andy McConnell

    Requires internet access to update. Try xplanet instead. xplanet generates images locally, in real time, based on last-known images. And you can update the clouds in near-real-time. Lots more knobs to tweak to put the stuff on the image you want. Satellites, space shuttle, earthquakes, cities, etc. http://xplanet.sourceforge.net and in Synaptic.

  • Norbac

    Cool, Can this be done on XP?

  • john72carter

    the script looks overly complex.
    why not have a basic script like below called by crontab every 15min.
    btw you need to reflesh the background (hence the last line of the script) otherwise whats in ~/.gnome2 doesn’t get displayed.
    you might also want to add a call to the script below at startup rather than waiting for the next cron run to update the stale image

    #!/bin/bash
    wget http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg -O ~/.gnome2/mercator.jpg
    gconftool-2 –type string –set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename ~/.gnome2/mercator.jpg

  • http://twitter.com/sigvei Sigve Indregard

    The idea is OK, but the script is not very good (really! download every five seconds sixty times, then wait an hour, and start over? What kind of absurd idea was that?) and xplanet’s been around since before Linux came.

    • Frans

      Your link to the script is dead !
      The idea is nice !

  • David

    Please fix the script dropbox location.
    It’s 404.

    Thanks

 
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