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

[Martin Pool]

On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 03:05:32PM +1000, Rob Kearey wrote:
> 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/sh
while true
do
     wget -o /tmp/snap.jpg http://www.naked-tenors.com/cgi/camera.cgi?id=bedroom && 
     xsetbg -fullscreen /tmp/snap.jpg
done

-- 
Martin Pool