On: Stellarium: A free open-source planetarium for your computer

[wallacoloo]

I haven't figured out the Wayland solution yet, but on X11 you can use a tool called Devil's Pie to make Stellarium act as your desktop background, which is way more fun than any other desktop I've had: http://mooooo.ooo/stellarium-desktop/

[app4soft → wallacoloo]

> https://github.com/gnome/devilspie - Page not found

;-( Where get it now?

[phaemon → app4soft]

At http://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/

[Insanity → wallacoloo]

Wow that's pretty dope.

Kind of reminds me of all the stuff I used to do with compiz when I used Linux as a young teenager.

[rosstex → wallacoloo]

This sounds awesome! Any tips for doing this on a Mac? I haven't found a working version of the tool.

[kragen → rosstex]

You can still install Linux on a Mac.

[moorsc0de → kragen]

They have MAC version if I am not mistaken.

[phkahler → wallacoloo]

I think the DE compositors should have an option to launch an application as background - full screen, always on the bottom. Wallpaper would just be an instance of an image viewer run this way. Animated wallpapers could just be ffmpeg or VLC playing a loop.

[c22 → wallacoloo]

I like it. I used to run electric sheep[0] on my root window, but it made the fans run constantly.

[0] https://electricsheep.org/

[detaro → wallacoloo]

Not a readymade solution, but https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri could maybe provide examples of the code needed to make it possible for Wayland.

[dkarp → wallacoloo]

amazing - how demanding is Stellarium to run?

[wallacoloo → dkarp]

Demanding enough that I’d kill it before doing any gaming to get a small boost in FPS, but otherwise, when you aren’t interacting with it I think cpu usage was something like 3% on my i5 processor. When you’re moving around the view and such though, it does use a significant amount of cpu.

[scbrg → wallacoloo]

What a stellar (!) idea. Thank you so much for posting.