[plug] live desktop wallpaper

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:00, Mark Saxon wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> >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:
> >  
> >
> 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.
> 
> 

OK. Can you do the eqiv of a dist-upgrade using urpmi?

I've only actually tried 10 and never tried upgrading from an earlier
version.

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