Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper is an application which sets your wallpaper to an image of the Earth's sunglight/darkness - updated every 30 minutes. The wallpaper also displays clouds which are updated every 3 hours with the current weather satellite imagery.

A few days ago, version 0.3 was released which adds options to change the wallpaper style and background color. I wanted to write about Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper back when version 0.3 was released, but the application failed to start for some users (including myself). Luckily, a new version (0.3.1) has been released today which fixes this.

Here are some of the available (almost)-real-time wallpapers included in the Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper application:

Remember the great (almost) real-time Earth wallpaper script for Linux created by Claudio Novais @ Ubuntued?

Well, Claudio created another version of the wallpaper, called "Earth on Carbon Fiber" and it includes a much smaller Earth image on a carbon fiber wallpaper. The reason for this is so that you'll have enough space for the icons on your desktop and still have the cool Earth image from opentopia.com which is constantly updated to give you an overview of the Earth.

The new version of the script is also very easy to install, with a single command installing the script and adding it to your startup applications.