I’m a regular visitor of VladStudio’s website, run by Vlad Gerasimov, a digital artist. It is a spot to find a lot of beautiful wallpapers. Recently, he began making wallpaper clocks – dynamic wallpapers that show date, hour, minute and stuff… I liked the idea, but I wasn’t able to use them on my system, as there was a Windows-only program for it.
I checked out his site last night and was surprised when I saw that there is a Wallpaper clock screenlet for Linux 
(download).
This screenlet requires Screenlets software to be installed. Once that is done, the screenlet needs to be unpacked to ~/.screenlets/ directory, or /usr/local/share/screenlets/ (this way it will be accessible to every user on the system). New wallpaper clocks are added by unpacking .wcz archive to ~/.screenlets/WallpaperClock/wallpapers/, or /usr/local/share/screenlets/WallpaperClock/wallpapers/ (depending on the place where the screenlet is located).
Well, I hope this will be useful . Enjoy…
Edit: This screenlet depends on python-imaging package.
4 responses so far ↓
naughtykid // December 5, 2007 at 11:49 pm |
Great sharing!
not knowing anything regarding screenlet before read your post, so thanks!
I’m regular visitor to vladstudio too (^_^)v
Saša Bodiroža // December 6, 2007 at 6:10 pm |
I’m glad it was helpful
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Lee Nuxrox // May 29, 2008 at 12:22 pm |
Hey fellas,
did anyone experience the blackscreen bug with the latest release (2.3, I assume)?
Half of the time it works flawlessly, the other half it forgets to “render” the whole desktop and displays a black screen at the bottom half. A minute later it may be ok again. So it’s quite annoying.
Cheers,
Lee
Natan Yellin // September 14, 2008 at 6:40 am |
@Lee Nuxrox
The Screenlets project has been abandoned, but there’s a fork called Universal Applets that has an updated version of the wallpaper clock screenlet. You can find more information at the links below:
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/universal-applets
Installation: http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=8638