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I haven't figured out the Wayland solution yet, but on X11 you can use a tool called Devil's Pie to make Stellarium act as your desktop background, which is way
by wallacoloo 7y ago
I haven't figured out the Wayland solution yet, but on X11 you can use a tool called Devil's Pie to make Stellarium act as your desktop background, which is way more fun than any other desktop I've had: http://mooooo.ooo/stellarium-desktop/ http://mooooo.ooo/stellarium-desktop/
- rosstex 7y agoThis sounds awesome! Any tips for doing this on a Mac? I haven't found a working version of the tool.
- dkarp 7y agoamazing - how demanding is Stellarium to run?
- wallacoloo 7y agoDemanding enough that I’d kill it before doing any gaming to get a small boost in FPS, but otherwise, when you aren’t interacting with it I think cpu usage was something like 3% on my i5 processor. When you’re moving around the view and such though, it does use a significant amount of cpu.
- app4soft 7y ago> https://github.com/gnome/devilspie https://github.com/gnome/devilspie - Page not found ;-( Where get it now?
- phaemon 7y agoAt http://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/ http://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/
- Insanity 7y agoWow that's pretty dope. Kind of reminds me of all the stuff I used to do with compiz when I used Linux as a young teenager.
- detaro 7y agoNot a readymade solution, but https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri could maybe provide examples of the code needed to make it possible for Wayland.
- scbrg 7y agoWhat a stellar (!) idea. Thank you so much for posting.
- phkahler 7y agoI think the DE compositors should have an option to launch an application as background - full screen, always on the bottom. Wallpaper would just be an instance of an image viewer run this way. Animated wallpapers could just be ffmpeg or VLC playing a loop.
- c22 7y agoI like it. I used to run electric sheep[0] on my root window, but it made the fans run constantly. [0] https://electricsheep.org/ https://electricsheep.org/