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Stellarium is also scriptable, so I was able to write a cronjob that would launch Stellaris in an invisible background window, set my latitude and longitude, se
by Arnavion 3y ago
Stellarium is also scriptable, so I was able to write a cronjob that would launch Stellaris in an invisible background window, set my latitude and longitude, set a bunch of display options, save an image of the rendered sky to a file, and then update my desktop wallpaper to that file.
But then I ended up not using it, because I use a tiling WM so I rarely see my desktop anyway lol. It's at https://github.com/Arnavion/sway-wallpaper-stellarium https://github.com/Arnavion/sway-wallpaper-stellarium if anyone wants to use it.
- TheDesolate0 3y agoYou don't see your desktop as in it's always covered or as in your WM hides the root window?
- Arnavion 3y agoThe former. A tiling WM covers the entire desktop with whatever windows are visible in the workspace. One window starts out full screen, creating a second window halves the first one and tiles them side-by-side, and so on. I would only see the desktop when I switch to a new empty workspace, but the reason I switched to a new empty workspace in the first place is because I wanted to start a new window there, so that glimpse of the desktop would be short-lived.
- Kharacternyk 3y agoMany tiling WMs have an option for gaps between the windows. Do you find them unpleasant? I love my 8px gaps. Most of the wallpaper is still covered, though.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoI personally hate those gaps. Wasted space.
- castalian 3y agoMaybe these gaps should be filled with decoration. Like with ornaments similar to those you can find in medieval books.
- kqr 3y agoI agree. For me the point of a tiling window manager is that it efficiently uses the screen space automatically. I don't have to drag windows around to do it. Automatically wasting space sounds less attractive...
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- mschulkind 3y agoTiling window managers generally size windows as large as possible. Windows only shrink to make way for other windows, so unless you do something weird, or switch to a desktop with no windows, or have some sort of transparency enabled, you won't see your background at all.
- sam_lowry_ 3y agoThanks for the idea and for the code!