Re: html as background

[Kenneth Dombrowski <kenneth@ylayali.net>]

On 02-11-02 09:13 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> > 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...)?
> 

This sounds a lot like something I read recently here:

http://herzl.nylug.org/pipermail/nylug-talk/2002-August/005554.html

myself, I have no idea what xv is.

 $ apt-file search xv

gworkspace
zsh-beta
zsh

 $ apt-cache show gworkspace

Package: gworkspace
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 4288
Maintainer: Paul Seelig <pseelig@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.3.4-3
Depends: gnustep-base1, gnustep-gui0 (>= 0.7.6), gnustep-xgps0 (>= 0.7.6) | gnustep-xdps0 (>= 0.7.6), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libffcall1, libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0.3-1), libgmp3 (>= 4.0.1), libobjc1 (>= 1:3.0.3-1), libxml2 (>= 2.4.0-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Filename: pool/main/g/gworkspace/gworkspace_0.3.4-3_i386.deb
Size: 1212118
MD5sum: 43b0cdac96ad62555b895885ef9e913e
Description: Workspace Manager for GNUstep
 A clone of the file and application manager available on NeXTSTEP
 and OPENSTEP used for managing files and starting applications.


For more "active desktop"-like things, view the whole thread. There's a
link to a Linux Journal article and two mentions of something called
kwebdesktop