Celestia as a desktop

Fleegle · Post #1by **Fleegle** » 31.01.2003, 07:10

One feature I'd like to see is the ability to use Celestia as an Active Desktop. It would be cool to see a planet rotating in the background while I'm doing stuff or just while my machine is idle. Obviously it should be able to act as a screensaver as well. Anyways, I'm just curious if anyone has modified Celestia to act this way or has plans to do so. I realize that this feature is probably not a priority for Chris and I have no idea how easy/hard it would be to implement the feature. However, I felt I should put this forward as a feature request and maybe open some dialogue about the idea. I seem to recall that some other people expressed an interest in Celestia being used as a screensaver. I think it would be a worthwhile project.

Cheers,
Fleegle

John Van Vliet · Post #2by **John Van Vliet** » 31.01.2003, 09:42

Hi I have used celestia running as my desktop background using
Vital Desktop http://www.vital-desktop.com/
and even with small textures it bougs down all other programs
(ie it takes for ever to open my programs file )

billybob884 · Post #3by **billybob884** » 31.01.2003, 21:05

how do you set this up?

John Van Vliet · Post #4by **John Van Vliet** » 31.01.2003, 23:21

remove EVERYTHING but the one planet uoy want to show , this includes the .cel files --no start up scrips--

and it should work

alegator · Post #5by **alegator** » 07.02.2003, 08:32

Great John!
I installed vitaldesktop and I love using the desktop with screensavers...
thanks

billybob884 · Post #6by **billybob884** » 07.02.2003, 19:18

ive installed this, but now every time i open the display panel it crahses my computer

alegator · Post #7by **alegator** » 07.02.2003, 20:34

I have WinXP, it never got to crash the PC, but the application did crash on several occassions when deactivating it. Aslo, I needed to reconfigure the background for the desktop as the application turns it black.

Redfish · Post #8by **Redfish** » 07.02.2003, 21:03

It would be impossible at the moment, since celestia constantly uses 100% cpu time. No matter what you do or render or show.

billybob884 · Post #9by **billybob884** » 07.02.2003, 22:40

no, i mean i cant even open the display panel, let alone start celestia as the background

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