On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:18:41AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:18:56PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > I am grabbing images from NWS and putting > > > them on my desktop background. Is there > > > a command I can insert in .xinitrc or somewhere > > > else that will refresh (restart in the menu) > > > the screen so that it will update the images > > > every 30 minutes or so? > > > > You could setup a cron job to fetch the image every 30 minutes using > > wget, then update the background using xli or imagemagick or whatever. > > > > Here is my current setup in cron: > > 0,30 * * * * wget http://weather.srh.noaa.gov/radar/images/rad_us.gif -O > /home/lance/weather/rad_us.gif > 2,32 * * * * wmsetbg -display :0.0 -e ~/weather/rad_us.gif -w 2 > > Seems like this should update but it doesn't. How would I use imagemagick > to update the image? The two obvious things: 1) is it downloading the file correctly? 2) does executing the commands by hand work correctly? Also, I remember seeing a message on another list I subscribe to about cron getting confused by complicated commands. I can dig the thread up if it sounds useful. -rob
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