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Realtime Sunlight wallpaper v0.2.1 has been released | PPA Maverick meerkat

Written by Mel Kham on October 16, 2010. Posted in Software

Gtk-Sunlight v0.2.1 has been released, this version comes with minor fixes and updates, now a ppa available for Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat.

Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper is a simple but useful application which retrieve an image from the internet and set it as a wallpaper every 30 minutes.

“Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth’s patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated every 3 hours with current weather satellite imagery.

And every half hour, these images are composited and mapped onto a sphere by xplanet according to the relative position of the sun. The flat maps are post-processed by ImageMagick to cut off the 15 degrees nearest the north and south poles where cloud data is unavailable.”

Installation in Ubuntu 10.10 maverick Meerkat

Open terminal and enter the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:realtime.sunlight.wallpaper/rsw 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gtk-sunlight

After installation is done, you can launch the application from:

Applications->Accessories->Real-time Sunlight Wallpaper

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

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3 Comment(s)

Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

pwnmonkey

This is really great!
But how do you make it fill the entire screen? I get bars on the top and bottom of the image.
matt

running 10.10 64bit, ran the apt commands in a terminal, no errors I could see, the menu item is there, but when i click it nothing happens, if i run from terminal I get a pointer error. how can i fix this?

[code]*** glibc detected *** gtk-sunlight: ======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x774b6)[0x7f38b698c4b6]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x73)[0x7f38b6992c83]
gtk-sunlight(main+0x18b)[0x40256b]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe)[0x7f38b6933d8e]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00405000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5988 00604000-00605000 r--p 00004000 08:05 5988 00605000-00606000 rw-p 00005000 08:05 5988 01afd000-01b80000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f38ac000000-7f38ac021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 7f38ac021000-7f38b0000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 7f38b1abc000-7f38b1ad1000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 663 7f38b1ad1000-7f38b1cd0000 ---p 00015000 08:05 663 7f38b1cd0000-7f38b1cd1000 r--p 00014000 08:05 663 7f38b1cd1000-7f38b1cd2000 rw-p 00015000 08:05 663 7f38b1cd2000-7f38b1d01000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3014853 7f38b1d01000-7f38b1f01000 ---p 0002f000 08:05 3014853 7f38b1f01000-7f38b1f02000 r--p 0002f000 08:05 3014853 7f38b1f02000-7f38b1f03000 rw-p 00030000 08:05 3014853 7f38b1f03000-7f38b1f0b000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 611 7f38b1f0b000-7f38b210b000 ---p 00008000 08:05 611 7f38b210b000-7f38b210c000 r--p 00008000 08:05 611 7f38b210c000-7f38b210d000 rw-p 00009000 08:05 611 7f38b210d000-7f38b211b000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1020 7f38b211b000-7f38b231a000 ---p 0000e000 08:05 1020 7f38b231a000-7f38b231b000 r--p 0000d000 08:05 1020 7f38b231b000-7f38b231c000 rw-p 0000e000 08:05 1020 7f38b231c000-7f38b2322000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 4515 7f38b2322000-7f38b2521000 ---p 00006000 08:05 4515 7f38b2521000-7f38b2522000 r--p 00005000 08:05 4515 7f38b2522000-7f38b2523000 rw-p 00006000 08:05 4515 7f38b2523000-7f38b254e000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3097 7f38b254e000-7f38b274d000 ---p 0002b000 08:05 3097 7f38b274d000-7f38b274e000 r--p 0002a000 08:05 3097 7f38b274e000-7f38b274f000 rw-p 0002b000 08:05 3097 7f38b274f000-7f38b2756000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1106 7f38b2756000-7f38b2955000 ---p 00007000 08:05 1106 7f38b2955000-7f38b2956000 r--p 00006000 08:05 1106 7f38b2956000-7f38b2957000 rw-p 00007000 08:05 1106 7f38b2957000-7f38b2966000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3773 7f38b2966000-7f38b2b65000 ---p 0000f000 08:05 3773 7f38b2b65000-7f38b2b66000 r--p 0000e000 08:05 3773 7f38b2b66000-7f38b2b67000 rw-p 0000f000 08:05 3773 7f38b2b67000-7f38b2b6b000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 4064 7f38b2b6b000-7f38b2d6a000 ---p 00004000 08:05 4064 7f38b2d6a000-7f38b2d6b000 r--p 00003000 08:05 4064 7f38b2d6b000-7f38b2d6c000 rw-p 00004000 08:05 4064 7f38b2d6c000-7f38b2d71000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 3014701 7f38b2d71000-7f38b2f71000 ---p 00005000 08:05 3014701 7f38b2f71000-7f38b2f72000 r--p 00005000 08:05 3014701 7f38b2f72000-7f38b2f73000 rw-p 00006000 08:05 3014701 7f38b2f73000-7f38b3218000 r--p 00000000 08:05 786522 7f38b3218000-7f38b3224000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2683 7f38b3224000-7f38b3423000 ---p 0000c000 08:05 2683 7f38b3423000-7f38b3424000 r--p 0000b000 08:05 2683 7f38b3424000-7f38b3425000 rw-p 0000c000 08:05 2683 7f38b3425000-7f38b342f000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2686 7f38b342f000-7f38b362e000 ---p 0000a000 08:05 2686 7f38b362e000-7f38b362f000 r--p 00009000 08:05 2686 7f38b362f000-7f38b3630000 rw-p 0000a000 08:05 2686 7f38b3630000-7f38b3647000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2674 7f38b3647000-7f38b3846000 ---p 00017000 08:05 2674 7f38b3846000-7f38b3847000 r--p 00016000 08:05 2674 7f38b3847000-7f38b3848000 rw-p 00017000 08:05 2674 7f38b3848000-7f38b384a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 7f38b384a000-7f38b3852000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2676 7f38b3852000-7f38b3a51000 ---p 00008000 08:05 2676 [/code] free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000004038b5 ***
/> /usr/bin/gtk-sunlight
/usr/bin/gtk-sunlight
/usr/bin/gtk-sunlight
[heap]
0
0
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so
/usr/lib/libltdl.so.7.2.1
/usr/lib/libltdl.so.7.2.1
/usr/lib/libltdl.so.7.2.1
/usr/lib/libltdl.so.7.2.1
/usr/lib/libtdb.so.1.2.1
/usr/lib/libtdb.so.1.2.1
/usr/lib/libtdb.so.1.2.1
/usr/lib/libtdb.so.1.2.1
/usr/lib/libogg.so.0.7.0
/usr/lib/libogg.so.0.7.0
/usr/lib/libogg.so.0.7.0
/usr/lib/libogg.so.0.7.0
/usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0.4.4
/usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0.4.4
/usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0.4.4
/usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0.4.4
/usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3.3.2
/usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3.3.2
/usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3.3.2
/usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3.3.2
/usr/lib/libcanberra.so.0.2.4
/usr/lib/libcanberra.so.0.2.4
/usr/lib/libcanberra.so.0.2.4
/usr/lib/libcanberra.so.0.2.4
/usr/lib/libcanberra-gtk.so.0.1.6
/usr/lib/libcanberra-gtk.so.0.1.6
/usr/lib/libcanberra-gtk.so.0.1.6
/usr/lib/libcanberra-gtk.so.0.1.6
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
/lib/libnss_files-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnss_files-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnss_files-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnss_files-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnss_nis-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnss_nis-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnss_nis-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnss_nis-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so
/lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so
0
/lib/libnss_compat-2.12.1.so
Aborted
- vera
  
  the same happens to me running maverick….menu item is there but no response…doesnt run from a terminal either….i am using a netbook maybe not enough resolution ??

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