All entries for Monday 01 March 2010

Staring at the

Writing about web page http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html

SOHO image wallpaper script grabs one or all of the latest SOHO images once an hour and sets it/them as your GNOME wallpaper. I was going to make it work for Mac OS X as well but by the time I'd found out how to set the relevant properties from a script I couldn't be bothered. (Mac OS X doesn't provide a way to set the background colour or the placement  (introduced in Snow Leopard) from a script. You have to alter the plist file and then restart the Dock as described here.)

Example screenshots:

$ ./soho_image_wallpaper

$ ./soho_image_wallpaper blue zoom

Mike Willis : 01 Mar 2010 13:14 |  Tags: Bash Gnome Imagemagick Soho Wallpaper |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem