Where does background handler store its configuration and Xplanet configuration with KDE Background Handler (Control Center Appearance & Themes background program)

Manne Laukkanen <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:38:49 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.look
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!
Having succesfully configured *some* options for Hari Nairs Xplanet =

(http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/) under KDE 3.4 SuSE Linux 9.3 KDE =

Control Center Appearance & Themes Background Background program, I =

would like to ask the following question:

How can I tweak KDE background handler further. It clearly takes some =

parameters in from the background program Advanced =

Options/xplanet/Modify options, for example my Earth map is now seen =

from the moon, a label for this is drawn and the globe is in the right =

edge of my display  (--num_times 1 --geometry %xx%y --label --fontsize =

16 --origin moon --center +1250+500 --output %f.jpg && mv %f.jpg %f)

However, the most beneficial option for me would be to enable the =

drawing of cloud maps on top of the image too. This might be enabled in =

SuSE at /usr/share/xplanet/config/default file, but I don't think that =

KDE background handler reads this, does it? As the fetching of cloud =

maps requires running of some scripts =

(http://www.number.ch/wiki/index.php/XplanetClouds) is it possible to =

make the KDE background handler to run these too at the intervals it =

runs the xplanet? How?

This might seem a bit off the topic for look and feel, but I guarantee =

you that making this program easy to run with options will draw more and =

more geeks and astronomy/geography/weather enthusiasts using KDE, as the =

information of day/nighttime and weather can be seen as desktop =

background at all times.

Yours sincerely and grateful for answers/and/or further information

Manne Laukkanen
Helsinki
Finland