Since i was posting Desktop Wallpapers – Open Software and ~/Fun_Tools, i remembered another trick. This time the problem was time and day/night issues.
If you point your browser to http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/ you can get yourself a very interesting piece of software named Xplanet. Now, to make a long story short, there was xearth and then xplanet. What this program does, is a bit ludic but i find it very very interesting and fun.
Now, if you install the program and play with it, you might try this:
$shell:> xplanet -window -latitude X -longitude Y -radius 35 -rotate 23 -geometry IxJ -output ~/map.jpg
You will get a nice little picture you can *again* use as your desktop Wallpaper.
Why ? Try to work long hours in a suite without windows (underground) and check the updated image as your wallpaper and you will see the phycological effect of the time on you; Meaning, it’s very interesting to perceive time in terms of planet rotation instead of a conceptual interpretation of numbers (9:47pm).
Sebb
