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Hi all,

Just found this program. Has to be one of the COOLEST things I have seen ever. Love it.

Is it possible to program it to make it become your desktop? If you could, I would, like, have an orgasm or something.

Drooool.

Is it possible with later programming?

Hi guys,

under Linux this would mean to redirect the output to the window 'desktop'. That shouldn't be to hard, except for KDE V 2.x which is buggy in that regard. Already asked.
XEarth and Xplanet are doing right that, but much less frequently, of course.

Under Win this is somewhat more tricky. A few programs are able to do that:
http://www.geisswerks.com/drempels/index.html (desktop render mode)
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/milkdrop/ (dito)
http://www.projectmayo.com/projects/det ... rojectId=3 (The Playa)

All of these render to an off-screen surface, fill the desktop background with a solid color (e.g. pink) and then copy pixel per pixel from offscreen to onscreen buffer.
I have written to the author of the former two, Ryan Geiss of Winamp fame and he told me so. I haven't seen any OpenGL app which does this yet.

Any ideas?
CU, Axel

Dunno about other platforms, but on the forthcoming Mac OS X update it'd be easily possible and fully hardware accelerated (with the desktop remaining a useful Finder view), provided Celestia could be packaged as a screen saver module.