Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (78 mails)

[Thomas Wedehase <tw_mailbox@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
How do you put the picture in the background.
>
> My monitor is 1280x1024 and I have 64-pixel-tall panel at the bottom.
>
> You can see the latitude and longitude of Denver in the arguments to
> -latitude and -longitude.
>
>
> Let me know how you deal with darkness of the image. I have to adjust my
> system gamma upward (to 1.50) to make the image bright enough.
>
> > Thomas
>
> Randall Schulz

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