Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper

Update when PC is first turned on?

Asked by David Velazquez

I installed this great thing but I'm not sure it's updating properly for me. Is there a way to check (or can you tell me) if the program checks the site for updates when the computer is first started? My PC has been on for roughly an hour now and it still displays the map from when it first checked the site yesterday.

Also, I'm not 100% sure it's starting when the PC starts. When the GTK window is open for it ps aux | grep sunlight will show me the process, however, I don't see that when the computer first starts.

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Carles Sentis (heepie202) said : 		#1

Thank you for trying my app... I much appreciated. At the moment this is just a plain install. I'm working on making a PPA for Ubuntu. So, check back here soon or you can go to this website I just made for it.

http://realtimesunlightwallpaper.weebly.com/index.html

Updates will be released here of course.

This is more like a beta release rather than a final release, so I appreciate the feed back. The wallpaper should update every 30 minutes from the moment you press the OK. At the moment to see a change straight a way you have to press apply and then ok. I see now that this is a mistake, I'll be changing this on the next official release.

Once you check the "Start when the computer starts" it puts an entry under the startup applications on the system and the main window should load everytime. If it doesn't something has gone wrong. Check if the entry is there under system->Preferences->Startup Applications and look for "Realtime Sunlight Wallpaer".

I'll change in the future the way the main window loads on startup but I'm working on a way where you can start it to change preferences and a way to start it just to change wallpaper. I thought about a tray icon but I never really like some applications just clutter the notification area, and is no need for it to be there all the time. And the way Ubuntu is going with notification area. This is not a way to go.

Thank you again.

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David Velazquez (lemonsforlemonade) said : 		#2

Hi, I agree that a notification icon might not be the way to go with this. I would, however, like a way to get the program running in the background at boot without having the gtk window start.

Regarding the program not starting, I have seen that it is in the Startup Applications list, but the entry calls just for 'sunlight'. If typed in a terminal this returns a command not found error. According to the OMG!Ubuntu! post 'sunlight-0.0.11' should be called to start the application in the terminal. On a hunch I added this to the Startup Applications box and it works now! It seems the wrong entry is just being put in there (or for some reason it's not understanding just 'sunlight').

Thanks for creating this!

Dave

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Carles Sentis (heepie202) said : 		#3

This was just a small error of mine on the release I first gave to OMG!Ubuntu which I fixed within the first couple of hours from the moment the post came out. You probably were one of the first ones to get it...

Sorry about that, my mistake...

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