Welcome To OSXplanet Frequently Asked Questions!
• Nothing happens after the
splash screen comes up!
• The Globe on the menubar appears
than disappears, what's going on?
• I quit OSXplanet but the desktop
keeps refreshing. How do I stop this?
• I have multiple screens, xplanet
only appears on one. Are you going to support
multi computer screens?
• How do I install OSXplanet?
• How much is OSXplanet?
• Where can I find more information
about how to run OSXplanet?
• Will there ever be a Windows
version of OSXplanet?
• How do I change background
setting?
• What are the sky blue labels that
says things like STO and TYP?
• Will there ever be more
localizations added to OSXplanet?
• Why are the clouds sometimes
distorted?
• My cities list disappeared! What
happened?
First make sure there isn't a planet or a circle with a
line through it in your menu bar (top-right hand corner).
When you find it go to the preferences to enable OSXplanet.
If that doesn't work, then make sure you have the right
version of OSXplanet. The Jaguar version should say Jaguar
in the version number. If that is right, then make sure the
"Change Picture" is disabled in your System Preferences.
Finally, if none of the things above doesn't work, then
erase the following files and then restart OSXplanet:
• /Users/your home/Library/Xplanet
• /Users/your
home/Library/Preferences/com.gabrielotte.osxplanet.plist
This is because OSXplanet crashed for some reason. To
avoid this in the future try and remove the following files
then start again:
• /Users/your home/Library/Xplanet
• /Users/your
home/Library/Preferences/com.gabrielotte.osxplanet.plist
Note that your Preferences will not be saved.
You can stop this by going into the Activity Monitor under /Applications/Utilities and find a program called xplanet-1.0.x and quit it. If you do not have Panther, then go to the Terminal under /Applications/Utilities and type "top" without the quotes, then enter and find xplanet-1.0.x. Once you find it, look for the a 3-5 digit number the is the Progress ID number of xplanet. Then press q to get out of the list then type "kill" with out the quote and press enter.
Multiple-Screen Support is now part of the OSXplanet plan. It is some ways down possibly version 0.9 or 1.0 but I'm having a hard time right now to get anything done due to my studies.
Download the disk image, open it up and drag to anywhere you want on the computer.
OSXplanet is currently Freeware. However if you find it useful or enjoyable then you can donate some money to OSXplanet project at the bottom of the page using Paypal.
More information can be found at the OSXplanet Documentation. If you want to ask specific questions please email me at gabriel@otte.ucsc.edu.
At the moment, no. I plan to make something like it for the Windows and Linux operating systems but have not found out where to start from. If you have any suggestion on a good place to start let me know.
The OSXplanet Preferences are located under the OSXplanet Menu that is represented by a blue globe with a moon in your menu bar (by the clock).
These labels are the "storms". The top part is their designated name and the bottom part tells you which kind they are. STO stands for Storms, TYP stands for Typhoons, DEP stands for Depression, HUR stands for Hurricanes.
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This is a problem at the cloud source. Usually it is fixed by the next update on the server side usually 3 hours. |
For some reason the cities file has become corrupted. Possibly due to a premature termination of OSXplanet. To get the cities list to reset, quit OSXplanet, remove /your home/Library/Xplanet and then restart OSXPlanet.