[plug] live desktop wallpaper

[James Devenish]

In message <40E49742.3020102 at omninet.net.au>
on Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:59:14AM +0800, Mark Saxon wrote:
> This seemed to be under the control of a running application

I don't know about what programmes or desktop environments will stream
images from the web, but the principle is also demonstrate by a nice app
called xplanetbg (which basically works with any X11 environment as long
as your window manager doesn't interfere with it). It keeps elegant
globes, space scenes, or world maps spinning in the background:

    http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/Gallery/

(The above link doesn't have any 2-d projections, even though they are
actually my favourites.)