[ale] Weather Satellite Image on X Background

[KeithH]

What resolution to you have your video card set to?

Josh Freeman wrote:

> Forgive me  if I am missing something completely obvious,but this 
> doesn't seem to work for me, running KDE 2.0.
> 
> If I execute the following statement:
> 
> xv -root -quit -geometry 1280x975 ec_vis_sat_720x486.jpg
> 
> Nothing seems to happen. If I execute this:
> 
> xv +root -quit -geometry 1280x975 ec_vis_sat_720x486.jpg
> 
> A window the size of my screen pops up containing ec_vis_sat_720x486.jpg
> 
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> 
> Josh
> 
> KeithH wrote:
> 
>> I had WAY too much fun with this.
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #
>> # Display weather maps in root window (Japan maps & X-windows)
>> #
>> cd /tmp
>> IMGSIZE="-geometry 1280x975"
>> # 1280x975 for 1280x1024 screen with GNOME toolbar at bottom
>> # IMGSIZE="-max" for full screen
>>
>> while [[ true ]] ; do (
>>
>>   SITE=http://tenki.or.jp/himawari/japan/sekigai/
>>   FILE=`date +%y%m%d%k`
>> # example: 01080517.gif
>>   wget -q $SITE$FILE.gif
>>   xv -root $IMGSIZE -quit $FILE.gif
>>   sleep 900
>>
>>   wget -q http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/VRML/fe.jpg
>>   xv -root $IMGSIZE -quit fe.jpg
>>   sleep 900
>>
>>   wget -q http://www.usatoday.com/weather/satpic/photos/east_asia.jpg
>>   xv -root $IMGSIZE -quit east_asia.jpg
>>   sleep 900
>>
>>   wget -q http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/WV/00Latest.jpg
>>   xv -root $IMGSIZE -quit 00Latest.jpg
>>   sleep 900
>>
>>   wget -q http://image.weather.com/images/sat/japan_sat_720x486.jpg
>>   xv -root $IMGSIZE -quit japan_sat_720x486.jpg
>>   sleep 900
>> ); done
>>
>>
>>
>> Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Woodruff wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I was in college there was a exe that you could run that would 
>>>> show a
>>>> US weather satellite image on the background of X and update it 
>>>> every 15
>>>> minutes.  I was using SunOS or Solaris (can't remember since 
>>>> Michigan State
>>>> switched to Solaris during my stay).  Does anyone know if there is a
>>>> equivalent for Linux?  And if so is the source available?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Chris Woodruff
>>>>
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>>>
>>> You could do this in a shell script:
>>>
>>> while [[ true ]] do {
>>>   wget <URL of weather image>
>>>   xsetroot <image fetched by wget> # Maybe "xv" would work better.
>>>   sleep 900
>>> } done
>>>
>>> (Note: the Bash syntax is probably not right, I don't
>>> write a lot of Bash scriptage.)
>>>
>>> -- Joe
>>> "You know how many remote castles there are along the gorges? You
>>>  can't MOVE for remote castles!" -- Lu Tze re. Uberwald
>>> // Linux MM Documentation in progress:
>>> // http://home.earthlink.net/~jknapka/linux-mm/vmoutline.html
>>> 2nd Lbl A + 1 = 2nd Pause 2nd Prt GTO 2 R/S
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