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[philcarrizzi]

This is an issue that is not at all related to the purpose for which the XO was designed.

I am an artist currently in the process of putting together my first solo exhibition. I made digitally designed plastic jewelry and objects mostly. And, as a part of this exhibition, I have made an effort to show my design and production process through drawings, photographs, animated renderings, and concept boards. I have decided to show some of these things digitally (though obviously the animation kind of has to be shown on a monitor anyway). So I designed this frame, into which I am housing a 7" LCD monitor:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=spry&w=18196192%40N00&z=t

But one screen is not enough, I don't want to have two of the same screen, and do not want to use a normal laptop of desktop with LCD display. I would like to use my XO, which I believe is complementary to my work, and yet is an interesting piece of "found art" on it's own. So, if you're still with me, here is my question:

What is the best way to present a permanently looping image (or video) slideshow on the XO? I would love, of course, to turn the thing on, and have it launch immediately into the show (in case it get's unplugged and a gallery attendant has to reset it). But I can live with pretty much anything.

What I have tried (without much success so far):
Using a full screen Flickr Flash slideshow. That's pretty much all I know how to do at this point on a Linux based system.

I would appreciate any help anyone can give me, asap!

Images of some of the work and process that is going into the show:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/optilevers/sets/72157601933763962/

_PHIL

[unrequited]

feh would be a good start, and then just adding it to the startup list (I don't know where the startup list is in Sugar).

Type yum install feh, and play around with that.

[LaPaglia]

I agree with the comment above about feh. I wrote this for our company wiki.

To turn your XO into a photo frame you need to down load and install a program called feh.

go to the sugar terminal, use the terminal icon, and type: (hit enter at the end of each line)

su -     [this puts you at the root so you can do a yum install]
yum install feh   [Answer "y" when prompted to install the program.]
exit      [this returns you to the sugar terminal you started with]

To use feh:
Put your jpg files on a SD card or a flash drive and plug it into the XO.
Go to the sugar terminal, use the terminal icon.
Type the following at the sugar terminal:

feh -F -D 5 --scale-down /media/SD/     
[this assumes your SD card is named SD. use the name of your SD card or your USB drive in place of SD]

-F plays full screen, you need this or small pictures will be copied several times on the screen.

-D plays the slide show with the number, in this case 5, being the number of seconds to wait between slides.

Q will quit [it may take a picture or two to quit. CTRL+q will also quit]

For more information type feh --help for the help file.

 



It wont make it auto start but it does the rest you need. and looks really good on the XO screen.

[Fricka]

Phil, sounds like an interesting project! Good luck!

[Torokun]

sorry to resurrect this....

but it seems like feh doesn't exist anymore?  (so is gqview)

Any other way to view pictures full screen?

[mavrothal]

sorry to resurrect this....

but it seems like feh doesn't exist anymore?  (so is gqview)

Any other way to view pictures full screen?

The problem is that Fedora 7 (XO os656) and Fedora 9 (XO os 767/802) is not supported any more. However if you are running os 767/802 you can still download the feh rpm from here  and install it locally. with "rpm -ivvh filename". However, you should have all the "required" files described in the above page.

[Torokun]

I'm sorry.

What are you referring to when you say "above page"?

[mavrothal]

I'm sorry.

What are you referring to when you say "above page"?

The page of the link.

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