xfdesktop and xplanet

[Christian V. J. Brüssow]

Hi Fridtjof,

Try this:

1. Get the Id of the xfdesktop root window (e.g. use xwininfo).
2. Start xplanet like this (script in Autostart?):
   xplanet -window-id <the root window-id from step 2>

For me, I have noticed, that the window-id of the desktop root never
changed. But with some scripting, you can handle a changing window id.
You should not call "xfdesktop -reload", when using that solution.


Another aproach is, let xplanet render into a file, change xfdesktop,
so it loads its desktop image from that file. To update the shown root
image in some intervalls, you can use "xfdesktop -reload".

It should be possible to put all this into one script. Don't forget to
set the xplanet option "-num_times" to "1". Then create a crontab entry,
executing that script in regular intervals. I haven't tried that, so
YMMV


Greetings,

Christian