xplanet on xfce
following the small tips posts here is how you can use xplanet along with xfce.
first of all we have to run xplanet:
xplanet -projection mercator -geometry 1024X768 -output ~/xplanet.png -wait 600
we define the desired geometry of the output picture, the path to save it and the time interval to be refreshed. you can see all the projection types on the man page of xplanet.
now we can select the output image to be our background from Menu -> Settings -> Desktop Settings. moreover xfdesktop needs periodically to redraw the background. (hint: remember the -wait option).
*/10 * * * * export DISPLAY=:0; /usr/bin/xfdesktop -reload
finally we can add the xplanet command on Menu -> Settings -> Autostarted Applications so we don’t have to run it every time we reboot.
here is my xplanet desktop:
