A quick look at xplanet and I can see the -output param - you could use that to render to a PNG and then use the "-post" option to run a script to update the background...
Maybe .. :) Darren. Sebastien Roy wrote: > Darren Kenny wrote: >> Hi Seb, >> >> Not sure how to make Compiz do what you want, but there may be a >> workaround... >> >> If your using GNOME and just want to change the background image, you could >> do >> this using GConf... >> >> e.g >> >> gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename <path> >> >> Of course this also assumes that you configure it to render an image on the >> background - you can do this in the Background tab in >> gnome-appearance-properties. > > Unfortunately, the application I'm using (xplanet) is drawing directly to > the root window every N seconds. This works just fine with vanilla > Gnome, as I can tell Nautilus to not draw the desktop (with gconf). I > don't think there's a way to get xplanet to call gconftool to draw the > background (yikes)... > > -Seb > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
