I don't know whathappend with the last email, but I just wanted to say thank you. I finally got it to work. Thanks again Thomas Am Monday 24 January 2005 19:58 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
Thomas,
On Monday 24 January 2005 09:55, Thomas Wedehase wrote:
Am Monday 24 January 2005 01:18 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
Thomas,
On Sunday 23 January 2005 11:24, Thomas Wedehase wrote:
Hello List,
has anyone any Information how to configure Xplanet? i really like it and it is running. But I wanna change the latitude and longitude, so Europe or the US will be in the center.
Can anyone help me with that?? I am using KDE 3.3.2 and Suse 9.2 and Xplanet 1.1.1
Patrick is right. The man page is adequate documentation.
Here's the invocation I use to generate my desktop image, once every 15 minutes:
exec \ xplanet \ -center +800+480 \ -radius 45 \ -label \ -labelpos -10+35 \ -label_string "Viewing Earth over Denver" \ -color 0xffffff \ -font LucidaSansRegular \ -fontsize 11 \ -latitude 39.75 \ -longitude -104.87 \ -projection orthographic \ -starfreq 0.03 \ "$@" \
Thanks for your help, but I just don't get it. Where do I safe the settings you gave me?? I checked out the man pages, but I don't know where to put the settings. I use KDE to put the image in the background.
Put it in a script, naturally. For me, it's ~/bin/xplanet-local.
How do you put the picture in the background.
Assuming the script I supplied and named as mine is, "~/bin/xplanet-local":
KDE Control Center + Appearance & Themes ++ Background
- Set "No picture" - Click "Advanced Options" - Enabled the "Background Program" section
- "Add..." a new program -- Give it a name, "xplanet-local" and a comment, if you wish -- Set the Executable "xplanet-local" -- Set this Command: "xplanet-local --geometry %xx%y --num_times 1 --output %f.jpg && mv %f.jpg %f" -- Set this Preview Command: "xplanet-local --geometry %xx%y --num_times 1 --output %f.jpg && mv %f.jpg %f" -- Set the refresh interval you want to use. I use 15 minutes.
- Make sure this new program is the one left selected when you confirm the Advanced dialog.
- Confirm all the changes and you should see the desktop image shortly.
Randall Schulz
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