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Easy to use random wallpaper changer
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Sky Aisling
 Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 592 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA |
Hi SFR, Mixed reviews ... I'm wondering if the issue is running from a Live CD or from a Frugal installation. Here's what I have found: Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 frugally installed on Dell Inspiron 600m. Worked fine 
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 Live CD on ZaReason Big Lap. No initiating of program - menu/desktop/wallpaper changer entry shows but nothing happens when requested. 
In both cases I downloaded the .pet into my home folder *my-applications*. Both Puppy-528.005 .isos taken from Barry's download site in November 2012. Hope this helps. Then there is my embarrassment...I'm looking for a screensaver not a wallpaper changer. 
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SFR
 Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 571 |
Yeah, that's odd... IOW, it looks like in the first case /usr/sbin/gtkdialog4 is present, but in the second case it's not. Perhaps some sort of layer issue or sth..? I'll try to investigate it some day...
No problem. 
How about pupxscreensaver, worked fine for me in Lupu: Greetings! _________________ [O]bdurate [R]ules [D]estroy [E]nthusiastic [R]ebels => [C]reative [H]umans [A]lways [O]pen [S]ource Omnia mea mecum porto. |
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Sky Aisling
Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 592 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA |
Thanks for the tip
GLSlideshow doesn't work in it. I'm looking for a slideshow presentation of my picture file, like the GNOME Xscreensaver. Thank you for the work on Wallpaper Changer. The dialogue box was easy to understand. |
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SFR
Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 571 |
Sky, I have found two interesting, little binaries: qiv - for fullscreen slideshow xprintidle - for detecting keyboard/mouse idle time It was enough to combine them with simple script and it seems to work fine (tried in Lupu also). Download and unpack the attched archive, (make all files executable, if they're not so), modify constants in slidesaver script (delay, interval, pics directory), and: 1. Click the script to enable daemon 2. Click the script again to disable daemon Now it picks pictures randomly, but it's easy to customize (qiv --help). To launch at startup, simply make a symlink in /root/Startup/ to slidesaver script. HTH Greetings!
_________________ [O]bdurate [R]ules [D]estroy [E]nthusiastic [R]ebels => [C]reative [H]umans [A]lways [O]pen [S]ource Omnia mea mecum porto. |
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Sky Aisling
Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 592 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA |
SFR - Yes! I copied *my-pictures* file from *home* into /usr/share. (I tried directing it to ~/my-pictures but that did not take, so, placed *my-pictures* in /usr/share) Now, how do I make one picture slowly fade down and the next picture slowly fade up?
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SFR
Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 571 |
Does that folder contains not only pictures or lots of them? If so, it takes some time for qiv to scan them all...
Unfortunately it seems that qiv doesn't have such a feature... There is also pqiv, but:
(Besides, the fading isn't "slow" at all )
But if your collection contains pics, which have the same size, you can try it - just download and extract the .deb (i386) package from the above link, copy pqiv binary to SlideSaver directory and replace appropriate line in the script with, eg.:
Anyway, you can always do a search for an image viewer with features you're looking for and if you succeed, just modify that single line appropriately, according to 'found_image_viewer --help' printout. (in case of doubt, just let know in this thread). Greetings! _________________ [O]bdurate [R]ules [D]estroy [E]nthusiastic [R]ebels => [C]reative [H]umans [A]lways [O]pen [S]ource Omnia mea mecum porto. |
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Sky Aisling
Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 592 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA |
No, nine test pictures, mixed .jpg and .png of various sizes.
Where/how to I search for an *image viewer*? Through Google? What keywords to use? Am I looking for an image viewer written in a specific language? Thank you SFR. I am determined to find a slideshow screensaver that functions similar to the GLslideshow feature in GNOME's Xscreensaver. I don't care if the pictures *scale* to the screen size. I don't care if they *enter* stage right or left. This bit of coding you've sent would be perfect if I can just make it slowly fade from random pic to random pic. |
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SFR
Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 571 |
Here's the first result of "best way to search" query: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-best-way-to-search-the-internet.htm Use keywords like: linux, slideshow, fullscreen, viewer, fade, transitions, list of image viewers for linux, etc. Whatever comes to your mind. Also check your PPM and this forum. Doesn't matter in which language really - what matters is if it will work for you well, and it has to be "launchable" from command line (to be able to call it from script and use its internal options). BTW, see if this one meets your needs: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23045 I gave it a shot, but the fade effect fails from time to time. Greetings! _________________ [O]bdurate [R]ules [D]estroy [E]nthusiastic [R]ebels => [C]reative [H]umans [A]lways [O]pen [S]ource Omnia mea mecum porto. |
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