Hey, then I could have a whole party in my office! Lol. To be honest, there’s not a lot here to do a tutorial of any sort. That said, there are some not-so-obvious tricks involved. It may only be some sort of glitch on my system but usually (not always), I can’t resize the fireplace pop-out window using the mouse. Instead, I have to click on it to be sure it’s the selected window and then do an Alt-Spacebar to access its system menu which has “Resize” as one of its options. Incidentally, because of how the clock app is written – having no border decorations and being set so as to not show up in the dock – I have to do the same thing to access its system menu as well… Note that the ideal fireplace video is one that doesn’t show any parts of the front of the fireplace – only the fire box itself. That’s why I like using this particular video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFZiI3iTKgk. That way, the illusion is pretty much seamless. Unfortunately, about a week after I began exploiting all of this to have my 2nd monitor display this “room”, a software update – likely of Opera itself – began styling the corners of the pop-out window to match the system theme (which in my case includes rounded corners). Although rounded corners are mostly acceptable in the case of this particular living room image – here I had to assemble the image in Gimp and thus the square corners – they tend to ruin the effect in general. So, how effective the illusion is depends on whether or not the software creating the pop-out window leaves the corners square.
The promised link… I’ve finished developing the customizable, analog clock application (ClockMaker) in Vala (https://valaclock-55dc3f.gitlab.io). AFAIK, it’s the only app of its kind on Linux – that is, one that not only allows you to display an analog clock on your desktop but allows you to customize it and even “assemble” entirely new clocks of your own making (for some examples, see the screenshots on the linked web page). Presently, you can install the app from either of two binary packages: a Debian package or a “generic” .tar.gz archive. In the near future I hope to make the app open source so that it can also be built/installed from source code. Let me know what you think…
My ubuntu budgie desktop
GTK theme: Material-Black-Plum
Wallpaper: from Variety to change wallpapper ever 20 mins
