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Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:59 pm**

Hello,

I changed Linux about a week or two ago and have been getting most of what I did with it by trial and error and youtube.
Finally I started with MX17 Linux and stayed with it. Then I found the live wallpaper program xplanetFX (http://mein-neues-blog.de/xplanetfx/) and tried it, but it will not show on the desktop.
As far as I can tell it works but does not have any effect and does not show as wallpaper backround. In all the guides I have watched the programme is activated and it shows up. That does not happen for me.
Does anybody have experience with this or has an idea what to do?

Thank you for looking at it.

System: Host: revenge Kernel: 4.13.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-17_x64 Horizon December 15, 2017
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X370-PRO v: Rev X.0x serial: N/A
UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 3803 date: 01/22/2018
CPU: 6 core AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Six-Core (-MT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
clock speeds: max: 3600 MHz 1: 2200 MHz 2: 2200 MHz 3: 2200 MHz 4: 2200 MHz
5: 2200 MHz 6: 2200 MHz 7: 2200 MHz 8: 2200 MHz 9: 2200 MHz 10: 2200 MHz 11: 2200 MHz
12: 2200 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Baffin [Polaris11]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 )
drivers: ati,amdgpu (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa,radeon)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD POLARIS11 (DRM 3.18.0 / 4.13.0-1-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)
version: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6

Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:34 pm**

Welcome to the Forum! I never even heard of this, but it seems to install OK. I will take a look later.

Did you read through the issues page?

Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:40 pm**

Did you try starting it in a console? Here is what I get when I do:

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$ xplanet
Warning: Can't find earth.jpg in
xplanet/images
/home/jb/.xplanet/images
/usr/share/xplanet/images

Do you have an image in any of those locations? Check again the issues page if not.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:09 am**

Thank you Jerry,

I have two problems: one is I do have difficulties understanding Linux and sedcon English is not my native language; but I do my best.

Following your post I started looking for an image but could not find it yet. Will keep searching tonight.

I have fond a folder xplanet in /usr/share and a folder xplanet XF

Tried to modify the output in then graphic menu but did not result in anything.

Here is what happened:

28.02.2018 13:45:36 ###### xplanetFX starting render cycle ######
28.02.2018 13:45:36 final image @ usr/share/xplanetXF/output/default.png
28.02.2018 13:45:36 location @ lon 8 / lat 50
28.02.2018 13:45:36 screen size @ 1920x1080 | center @ +960+540 | radius @ 32
28.02.2018 13:45:36 special f/x @ clouds: 1 | specular: 1 | post: 1 | atmosphere: 1
28.02.2018 13:45:36 inspecting cloud map...
28.02.2018 13:45:36 clouds image is up-to-date.
28.02.2018 13:45:36 done.
28.02.2018 13:45:36 preparing theme maps...
28.02.2018 13:45:36 done.
28.02.2018 13:45:36 creating corona on background...
28.02.2018 13:45:37 done.
28.02.2018 13:45:37 rendering image via xplanet...
28.02.2018 13:45:38 done.
28.02.2018 13:45:38 creating different renderings with clouds...
28.02.2018 13:45:41 done.
28.02.2018 13:45:41 compositing clouds with final image...
28.02.2018 13:45:42 done.
28.02.2018 13:45:42 creating atmosphere...
28.02.2018 13:45:43 done.
28.02.2018 13:45:43 creating specular image...
28.02.2018 13:45:45 done.
28.02.2018 13:45:45 rendering post production...
28.02.2018 13:45:45 done.
28.02.2018 13:45:45 next update: 14:00:33 28.02.2018

Have not tried anything in the terminal yet.

As soon as I can manage I will continue trial and arrow with the usr/share/xplanetXF/output/

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:30 am**

I no longer have it installed but my final suggestion would be that you try downloading and installing a theme, which I gather you can do from within the GUI itself.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 11:59 am**

May sound silly but I give it another try.

First I will install MX again in English, and if I cannot get it to work I will try the alternative from launchpad.

Should I succeed I will post here - if not I hide.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:06 pm**

No need to hide! I am intrigued with what I see of it, but have no time right now to look into it further.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 3:17 pm**

Did you have xplanet installed? According to the instructions, installing the deb should pull that in, but I just get download failures for it. So that begs the question as to how you installed it.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:00 pm**

download the tar file and extract it, goto usr > share > xplanetFX folder > right click open terminal then run xplanetFX --gui .

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:33 pm**

So then you need to manually install the dependencies that are clearly stated in the instructions.

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