Matrix Animated Skydome

[Bigun]

Do animated skydomes/wallpapers require anything else besides Beryl?

Or is there any "Plain English" Documentation I should be reading?

[Jupiter]

Do animated skydomes/wallpapers require anything else besides Beryl?

Or is there any "Plain English" Documentation I should be reading?


nothing else
skydome is part of the core
the best docs for everything beryl...for now, is the wiki
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Main_Page

skydome
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Desktop_Cube

[Bigun]

Ugh... how did he get this background animated?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kYgV2GlsufI

[Bigun]

Nevermind, I found it... I think...

It looks like an Xscreensaver XGL goodie.

[aok]

See my sig for a link to my youtube video and in the comments, I posted how to get the GLMatrix screensaver playing as the desktop wallpaper. Something about xwinwrap if I recall. I don't really want to visit my video while I'm at work or else I'd go and paste it here for you...

I don't believe you can run it as the skydome. For that, you can only use a static image. The "animated" option for Skydome is to change the perspective of what's moving around the cube...a fixed cube with the camera moving around, or a fixed camera with the cube spinning around.

[Jupiter]

See my sig for a link to my youtube video and in the comments, I posted how to get the GLMatrix screensaver playing as the desktop wallpaper. Something about xwinwrap if I recall. I don't really want to visit my video while I'm at work or else I'd go and paste it here for you...

I don't believe you can run it as the skydome. For that, you can only use a static image. The "animated" option for Skydome is to change the perspective of what's moving around the cube...a fixed cube with the camera moving around, or a fixed camera with the cube spinning around.



your video rocks dude
what did you use to record it and how did you add the music
i use beryl-vidcap, but haven't figured out how to enable sound

by the way
xwinwrap info in the wiki is here
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Xgl_goodies

[aok]

Thanks! The video's getting old now though.

Also, I cheated for making the video. :( I used a camcorder...you can tell because the auto-brightness/focus gets all confused whenever my screen goes from dark to light. Also, I put it together under Windows using Pinnacle Studio. I'm pretty sure I can figure out a way to make it using open source software though. Especially since I didn't do anything fancy.

[Jupiter]

Thanks! The video's getting old now though.

Also, I cheated for making the video. :( I used a camcorder...you can tell because the auto-brightness/focus gets all confused whenever my screen goes from dark to light. Also, I put it together under Windows using Pinnacle Studio. I'm pretty sure I can figure out a way to make it using open source software though. Especially since I didn't do anything fancy.



well it's still pretty cool
i've been using beryl-vidcap
i hope it is included in the new Compcomm

[sue]

hello..
i install xwinwrap_0.1+cvs20060209_i386.deb
and run this command in terminal--->
"xwinwrap -o 0.3 -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -window-id WID -delay 10000 -speed 0.4 -density 8 -fog -rotate -waves"

the animation work fine :D
but when i closed the terminal the animation is also closed...
so do you know how to make the animation continues working even i closed the terminal...


regards
-sue- :mrgreen:

[Jupiter]

hello..
i install xwinwrap_0.1+cvs20060209_i386.deb
and run this command in terminal--->
"xwinwrap -o 0.3 -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -window-id WID -delay 10000 -speed 0.4 -density 8 -fog -rotate -waves"

the animation work fine :D
but when i closed the terminal the animation is also closed...
so do you know how to make the animation continues working even i closed the terminal...


regards
-sue- :mrgreen:


can't you just put the "&" at the end of the command like so
[code:8f8be]xwinwrap -o 0.3 -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -window-id WID -delay 10000 -speed 0.4 -density 8 -fog -rotate -waves &[/code:8f8be]

[sue]

hrmm...it's not working for me...
i put the "&" at the end of the command but still wont work..it's disappear when i close the terminal...
hrmm...any ideas??.... :?


regards
-sue- :mrgreen:

[uberushaximus]

Just run the command in a "screen" session.

ie. [code:ae9a6]screen xwinwrap -o 0.3 -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -window-id WID -delay 10000 -speed 0.4 -density 8 -fog -rotate -waves[/code:ae9a6]

Close the terminal as you like and then use screen -x to return to this window