Xplanet install

Wow, thanks a lot for this detailed explanation. I'm seeing the image on my desktop now. What do I miss when I disable the desktop effects? I don't really care much about eyecandy, so I think I won't notice the differences anyway.

Do you have them enabled at the moment and see the image on your desktop? I had to remove them. Frxstrem Frxstrem 3, 3 3 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Xplanet can draw all the major planets and most satellites. I use it to provide the background image on my machines which run X. You can also download satellite images of cloud cover so your background reflect reality.

It makes for a very interesting and dynamic background. Have a look at their gallery of images. Very nice eye candy! The image below is is an example of what I have on my laptop. If you click on it, you'll see the full x image. Also present, but from a different time of day, is what the screen shot looks like without clouds. I am assuming you already have X up and runnning.

I am also using KDE in this example. I'm sure the instructions for other window managers will be simliar. I spent Monday doing nothing much. Tuesday involved a few emails. Want a good read? Follow us Blog Twitter Status page. Port details. There is no maintainer for this port. Xplanet uses the Imlib library to read user supplied maps of the earth or another planet.

Orthographic and Mercator projections can be rendered to the root window or saved to a file. An image that the user can rotate interactively can be popped up in a window using OpenGL or Mesa. Mathieu Arnold mat. Drop maintainership Return back to the pool ports I no longer use.

Fix build on aarch64 and with Clang 6. The modified patch explains the error message and what is changed. Add two maintenance targets netpbm-version-check and netpbm-fetch to make fetching them easier. Only a fraction of all programs need it. Some are compatibility shims for newer programs which should be used instead. Learn more. Install xplanet version 0. Asked 1 year, 1 month ago. Active 1 year, 1 month ago. Viewed 80 times. Or would it be easy to convert the tcl script, so it will run on v1.

Improve this question. Have you done the research about what changed between the old version and the current version? Since you only call out to xplanet in 2 places, it should be straightforward to edit your script to account for the changed options. Yes I researched, and I didn't find a hint about what happened to the -image option at all. Described here a bit: xplanet.