Comments on: How to get updated world weather maps as your desktop background in Ubuntu

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By: Ali Akram

Ali Akram — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:18:43 +0000

This sounds great! But when I set it up and get add the image to my backgrounds, it displays a black image and says ‘image missing’ in the details. Any suggestions?

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By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:46:15 +0000

add -U “Firefox/3.0.14″ to the wget command

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:14:29 +0000

@Montybank,
No the image is still there

By: Montybank

Montybank — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:52:28 +0000

Yeah, it appears that this site is now no longer allowing requests for this image.

This is too bad as I really enjoyed this, and it was one of the first things I did to personalize my gnome desktop (linux noob).

By: antony

antony — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:50:57 +0000

I seems that this no longer works – the server seemingly block all requests from wget.

By: R Jones

R Jones — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:29:30 +0000

That’s helpful. Thanks.

By: R Jones

R Jones — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:28:48 +0000

Thant’s helpful. Thanks!

By: Vito

Vito — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:47:16 +0000

i do the same but with xplanet so i don’t need to download nothing ( apart clouds if you want them in real time! )

By: Wallpaper

Wallpaper — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:20:02 +0000

thanks clever_fox that’s what I was looking for

By: clever_fox

clever_fox — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:08:02 +0000

ok, I tried aendruk suggestion

so get imagemagick

#sudo apt-get install imagemagick

then add this to the scheduler

wget -N http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg ; convert -resize x800 1600.jpg wallpaper.jpg ; rm 1600.jpg

and add wallpaper.jpg as your wallpaper

this method does not produce image exactly 1280×800, but height is 800 so it covers whole screen

By: ændrük

ændrük — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:24:41 +0000

@Bobby

The extra step would have to be performed by another command, so you’d need to call a script from gnome scheduler that includes the wget line and then a command to resize the image.

Check out ImageMagick’s convert command. Package “imagemagick” in the repositories. Examples at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:50:17 +0000

With the post right above this, I am referring to the gnome scheduler method.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:48:49 +0000

Is there an easy way to add to the command so that it will rescale to, say 1280×800 before it saves?

By: clever_fox

clever_fox — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:35:34 +0000

great job man, I like your tutorials

By: cnawan

cnawan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:52:49 +0000

@R Samuel Klatchko
I prefer your suggestion, that way my desktop wallpaper doesn’t display half-downloaded if my connection lags.
I also decided the images were worth keeping, so I copy the new ones to an incrementing filename.
ie.
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/cnawan/bin/
if wget http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg -O new.jpg
then
mv new.jpg current.jpg
cp current.jpg ` date|awk ‘OFS=”.”{print $2,$3,$6,$4}’`.jpg
else
rm -f new.jpg
fi

which yields files like: Aug.25.2008.21:43:30.jpg

By: tech blog

tech blog — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:06:47 +0000

Wow, thats cool! thanks for sharing!

By: ændrük

ændrük — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:35:27 +0000

Hey Sam R, I think the most appropriate place for a single user’s script like that would be in ~/bin. Ubuntu doesn’t create that folder for new users probably just to avoid being confusing, but if you make it yourself every executable script you put inside will automatically be included in your PATH, eg:

$ ls ~/bin # my script is in ~/bin
sayhello

$ ~/bin/sayhello # an absolute path would work for any script
Hello there!

$ sayhello # but this works like a normal command would
Hello there!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:18:41 +0000

Does this update when the image changes though?

A better thing to do would be when you download the new wallpaper, to refresh the gconf entry so that nautilus reloads the new version of it.

(Oh and you got this from Lifehacker didn’t you :-] )

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:35:28 +0000

Hi Folks,

Thanks for the great suggestions. As for the compiz bit – I’m not sure about that one. I haven’t run compiz for a while but if I get the chance, I’ll fire it up and see what I can do with it.

Ben

By: Sam R

Sam R — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:43:06 +0000

Instead of creating wp.sh, the command I run from the scheduler is

cd /path/to/wp/dir/ ; wget -N http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg

This way you won’t lose your wallpaper if you are not online.

Cheers,
Sam

By: Sam R

Sam R — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:15:37 +0000

Groovy idea.

I’m a bit of an organization freak and throwing scripts into my home directory drives me nuts. Isn’t /usr/local/bin the appropriate place? This of course would require a change to the script as it does not use absolute paths.

I see that we are under the assumption that we are online every hour. For anyone working offline, e.g. laptop users, this could mean no background until you get back online

Cheers,
Sam

By: R Samuel Klatchko

R Samuel Klatchko — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:21:50 +0000

Nice tutorial.

One suggestion would be to rewrite your script from:

rm 1600.jpg
wget http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg

to:

if wget http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg -O new.jpg
then
mv new.jpg 1600.jpg
else
rm -f new.jpg
fi

This way, if your computer can’t download the image, the previous version of the file will be preserved.