Re: html as background

[Burkhard Ritter <burkhard@sportident.de>]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:

> > 
> > Hello Lance,
> > 
> > On Nov  2, Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > |  Anyone know if there is a way to put an htnl page
> > |  as a background in a window manager (windowmaker)?
> > 
> > Hmmm.  Load it in a web browser, print to file, convert the ps to a jpg
> > or something, then set that to be the background?
> > 
> 
> 
> This is what I am trying to do-- but automatically from a console.
> Galeon will save as *.ps file.  But does w3m,links, or wget save as
> *.ps file?  How can I write a script (bash, perl) to go to a website
> and dump the html page as a *.ps file (or gif,jpeg...)?
> 
> I am basically trying to get a local weather forecast off the web
> and use it as a background on my desktop.
> 
> Lance  

If you are only interessted in numbers,etc, not in graphics, you could
also write a (perl)script, which downloads the site, extracts the
information and prints them to an image, but this would be a piece of
work.

Burkhard