What's involved in having a webcam update directly to my desktop ?

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04-16-2004, 12:09 PM	#1
jonathanc LQ Newbie Registered: Apr 2004 Location: Surrey, B.C. Distribution: RedHat 9 Posts: 6 Rep:	What's involved in having a webcam update directly to my desktop ? I'm running debian, and using xfce windows manager. I dont have root access either. there is a webcam @ http://cams.aacb.com/scripts/liveimg...=60?dummy=garb It views fine under mozilla but i would like it to update every so often right to my desktop. Is there a way I can do this ? also Im a bigtime newbie.

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