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Title: xearth
Post by: Jason W on April 14, 2010, 10:12:30 PM

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Title:          xearth.tcz
Description:    Displays a lit globe in the background of your X screen.
Version:        1.1
Author:         Kirk Johnson
Original-site:  http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~tuna/xearth/index.html
Copying-policy: BSD like
Size: 115K
Extension_by:   Jason W
Comments:       No menu or icon, as it is normally run in an .xsession like startup
script.
Change-log:     ----
Current:    2010/04/14 First version 1.1




Title: Re: xearth
Post by: bmarkus on April 15, 2010, 12:39:24 AM

Tried home page as in .info http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~tuna/xearth/index.html but page doesn't exist. It looks better: http://hewgill.com/xearth/original/

BTW, there is a similar program, xplanet in the repo.

Title: Re: xearth
Post by: Jason W on April 15, 2010, 12:52:37 AM

Was going off of the README in the source, which is no doubt outdated.   Homepage corrected.

This is no doubt a legacy app.  But I think there is room for more than one planetary app like there is room for more than one file manager. :-)

Title: Re: xearth
Post by: bmarkus on April 15, 2010, 12:56:53 AM

It's a nice little program, I just mentioned the wrong home page :)

Title: Re: xearth
Post by: Jason W on April 15, 2010, 01:04:41 AM

Thanks.  I am kind of surprised it built without a patch as the source is over 10 years old.  I think I remember this being the background of Red Hat ~6.2 which I installed once or so.