[ Thanks to kiterunner for this link.
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“XPlanetFX is an incredible tool for rendering high
quality real time earth wallpaper in Ubuntu. XplanetFX comes with a
handy GTK interface which makes things a whole lot simpler. I never
knew such a tool even existed until one of our readers mentioned us
about it.“Real Time Earth Wallpaper in Ubuntu using XplanetFX
“XplanetFX is a daemon for rendering high quality views of
mother earth as wallpaper in real-time (sun, moon and clouds). It
comes with a handy GTK interface but is fully usable under CLI.
Here is how the XplanetFX GUI looks like.”