xplanet (by Hari Nair) is a great piece of software capable of creating renderings inside our solar system. To raise the quality of it’s output adding some graphical effects, it was a great candidate to link with imagemagick.
The result is xplanetFX, a user-friendly piece of software to configure, run or daemonize xplanet with h/q capabilities to create wallpapers of mother earth on your desktop.
More realistic maps and backgrounds and a sophisticated graphics handling produce nearly photo realistic images of our mothership. It’s GTK GUI makes it really easy to use and provides a lot of settings and a user friendly access to xplanetFX. And even the templating capabilities give xplanetFX an individual and stylish touch.
The features of xplanetFX
* Fluffy clouds with bumps and shadows floating above the earth
* High quality earth map with bump, color corrections and subtle sea levels
* Corona with realistic lighting
* Atmospheric gleam towards the lit edge
* Specular reflection of the sun on water, ice and clouds
* Templates with online pool to download from
* Post processing with contras and color correction and a subtle “washed out” effect
* Seamless wallpaper change in GNOME, FLUXBOX, KDE < 4.3, XFCE and XFCE4, Fluxbox and feh wallpaper changer
* Option to render to a specific file and invoke a command afterwards (change wallpaper of any other envrionment)
* Startup delay to load desktop first
* Creating single renderings for use in shell scripts
* detailed logging
* CLI Setup with customization depending on actual config (reconfigurable)
* Small Toggle window for placing a starter in the panel
* Daemon with nice value (less aggressive)
* GTK user interface (english, russian, italian, french, spanish, japanese, dutch, czech, greek and german by now)
* Different list views
* Online theme pool
* Extensive functionality in customization
* Previews
Continue Reading... The result is xplanetFX, a user-friendly piece of software to configure, run or daemonize xplanet with h/q capabilities to create wallpapers of mother earth on your desktop.
More realistic maps and backgrounds and a sophisticated graphics handling produce nearly photo realistic images of our mothership. It’s GTK GUI makes it really easy to use and provides a lot of settings and a user friendly access to xplanetFX. And even the templating capabilities give xplanetFX an individual and stylish touch.
The features of xplanetFX
* Fluffy clouds with bumps and shadows floating above the earth
* High quality earth map with bump, color corrections and subtle sea levels
* Corona with realistic lighting
* Atmospheric gleam towards the lit edge
* Specular reflection of the sun on water, ice and clouds
* Templates with online pool to download from
* Post processing with contras and color correction and a subtle “washed out” effect
* Seamless wallpaper change in GNOME, FLUXBOX, KDE < 4.3, XFCE and XFCE4, Fluxbox and feh wallpaper changer
* Option to render to a specific file and invoke a command afterwards (change wallpaper of any other envrionment)
* Startup delay to load desktop first
* Creating single renderings for use in shell scripts
* detailed logging
* CLI Setup with customization depending on actual config (reconfigurable)
* Small Toggle window for placing a starter in the panel
* Daemon with nice value (less aggressive)
* GTK user interface (english, russian, italian, french, spanish, japanese, dutch, czech, greek and german by now)
* Different list views
* Online theme pool
* Extensive functionality in customization
* Previews
source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2011/07/135781677516134.html