Re: xscreensaver & xplanet
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 07:13:41AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote......
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> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:28:21AM -0400, Faithful John wrote......
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> > I have xscreensaver, when I got xplanet and I tried to
> > center the view of the earth on xplanet on my current
> > location using the settings, the xscreensaver settings
> > indicated that i hadn't install xplanet ... which I
> > already had. Xplanet seems to start fine, when i
> > start it using an xterm ... and it works alright, but
> > i don't know what to do now. I'm running sarge
> > currently.
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> I've never used xplanet (plan to give it a try soon since seeing your
> post), but I just looked at the config file that was shown at
> xplanet.sourceforge.net, and there's an option setting called -vroot
> that you might want to play around with. Seems xscreensaver uses a
> virtual root window, and using -vroot with xplanet will cause it to use
> a virtual root window too. Perhaps then it will be recognized.
Since my prior posting directly above, I've now installed xplanet
(alongside xscreensaver on my Sid box).
Using -vroot as an option doesn't make xplanet show up in
xscreensaver-demo. It's still greyed out. So to get it to show up, go
to your $HOME/.xscreensaver file, and look for the entry for .xplanet
(in mine it was around line 233). You'll find that there's an entry for
xplanetbg. Simple edit this to xplanet (drop the bg) and you'll have
xplanet in xscreensaver.
Now if I could just figure out all of the options in xplanet. Wow,
quite a few.
Kevin
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