[plug] live desktop wallpaper

[Mark Saxon]

Chris Caston wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 06:59, Mark Saxon wrote:
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>>William Kenworthy wrote:
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>>>Saw an WinXP desktop yesterday that had a copy of the perth weather
>>>radar map embedded as the wallpaper, being updated live.
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>>>This seemed to be under the control of a running application - I presume
>>>linux (I use gnome) can do the same but how?
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>>>BillK
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>>>radar map: http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR123.gif
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>>Well you cant do it with kde 3 and Mandrake it even has a popup
>>that says "only local wallpapers are allowed"
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>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.
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>Check out:
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Its not part of kdebase for version 3.1.3 on Mandrake 9.2 . It seems you 
would have to go up to
Mandrake 10 and kdebase 3.2    to have access to kwebdesktop.


>http://www.arach.net.au/~pcaston/kwebdesktop.png
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