[plug] live desktop wallpaper

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 06:59, Mark Saxon wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> >Saw an WinXP desktop yesterday that had a copy of the perth weather
> >radar map embedded as the wallpaper, being updated live.
> >
> >This seemed to be under the control of a running application - I presume
> >linux (I use gnome) can do the same but how?
> >
> >BillK
> >
> >radar map: http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR123.gif
> >  
> >
> Well you cant do it with kde 3 and Mandrake it even has a popup
> that says "only local wallpapers are allowed"
> 

I'm just looking into this now and I have got it  yet but stuff I am
looking at with sid running kweather and kwebdestop looks very
promising.

Check out:

http://www.arach.net.au/~pcaston/kwebdesktop.png
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> >http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug
> >Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
>