Celestia as a desktop

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Would you like to see Celestia as an Active Desktop/screensaver?

Yes, Active Desktop and Screensaver
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Yes, but just the Active Desktop feature
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Yes, but just the Screensaver feature
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No, I don't think either should be implemented
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Celestia as a desktop

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.

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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 )
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Post #3by billybob884 » 31.01.2003, 21:05

how do you set this up?
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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
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Post #5by alegator » 07.02.2003, 08:32

:D Great John!
I installed vitaldesktop and I love using the desktop with screensavers...
thanks
I have Celestia v1.2.5 running on the following machine:
Dell Dimension8200
WinXP Pro/SP1
P4 2.53Ghz 533MhzFSB
2Gb RDRAM PC800
ATI RADEON8500 PRO 128MB videocard
Viewsonic VP230mb 23.1" LCD 1600x1200 native
2 HD 120Gb each
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Post #6by billybob884 » 07.02.2003, 19:18

ive installed this, but now every time i open the display panel it crahses my computer
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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.
I have Celestia v1.2.5 running on the following machine:

Dell Dimension8200

WinXP Pro/SP1

P4 2.53Ghz 533MhzFSB

2Gb RDRAM PC800

ATI RADEON8500 PRO 128MB videocard

Viewsonic VP230mb 23.1" LCD 1600x1200 native

2 HD 120Gb each
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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.
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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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