[H-GEN] In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree ...

Christopher Biggs chris at stallion.oz.au
Mon Oct 26 01:11:08 EST 1998


Rob Kearey <r.kearey at mailbox.uq.edu.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Last Thursday night/Friday, I was Very Ill Indeed. As I lay in bed, my
> fever'd dreams presented for me an imaginary X desktop application.
> 
> This wee program had a mission - it grabbed an image from a webcam
> somewhere, scaled it as necessary, and set it as the background for the
> desktop. It then lathered, rinsed and repeated as the image was
> refreshed.
> 
> First person to write such a program gets the movie right to my /other/
> dream.

#!/bin/bash
while : 
do 
  wget -O ~/.$$.jpg http://www.bizarreanalsexwithgoldfish.com/images/ouch.jpg
  xv -root -quit -noresetroot -max -rmode 5 ~/.$$.jpg
  rm -f ~/.$$.jpg
  sleep 60
done

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