[ale] Weather Satellite Image on X Background

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Chris Woodruff wrote:
> 
> When I was in college there was a exe that you could run that would show a
> US weather satellite image on the background of X and update it every 15
> minutes.  I was using SunOS or Solaris (can't remember since Michigan State
> switched to Solaris during my stay).  Does anyone know if there is a
> equivalent for Linux?  And if so is the source available?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris Woodruff
> 
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You could do this in a shell script:

while [[ true ]] do {
  wget <URL of weather image>
  xsetroot <image fetched by wget> # Maybe "xv" would work better.
  sleep 900
} done

(Note: the Bash syntax is probably not right, I don't
write a lot of Bash scriptage.)

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