Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images [SOLVED]
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 12:33 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 18:02 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:45 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux [snip] I'll forward your advice to my wife. We have both Gnome and KDE installed, but we usually use Gnome... If you usually use gnome, then try xscreensaver (with gnome-2.14) or gnome-screensaver (with =gnome-2.14). gnome-screensaver still needs a bit of work. xscreensaver: 1. change random screen saver to only one screen saver 2. choose GLSlideshow, VidWhacker, XTeeVee, Zoom, or any of the other image based screensavers (trial and error :) 3. go to the Advanced tab, and select Choose Random Image 4. enter the directory to your images. gnome-screensaver: 1. Choose pictures folder 2. make a symlink to your picture folder: $ ln -s /path/to/photos ~/Pictures and you're done! If you feel game, you can convert some of the xscreensaver hacks (/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/) to gnome-screensaver xml files (/usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes/). Post them back if you do so! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses one. -- Charles De Talleyrand-Perigord My wife tried GLSlideshow and she says it's exactly what she wanted. She's been on the the phone several times today with her mother (as she does almost every day), and it frequently comes up in the conversation how much she likes her new screen saver. Now she's going to want me to find a way to get her mother a similar screensaver, but her mother uses Windows ME and she knows that I don't do Windows. Thanks for your help! -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images [SOLVED]
060514 Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife tried GLSlideshow and she says it's exactly what she wanted. Now she's going to want me to find a way to get her mother a similar screensaver, but her mother uses Windows ME There's no M$ Windows version of Xscreensaver the latter's creator says there never will be. A good excuse to install Linux on your mother-in-law's box (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images
My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it that would serve as input for the screensaver, however, my wife also has the individual pictures from the web site saved on her hard drive... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images
Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it that would serve as input for the screensaver, however, my wife also has the individual pictures from the web site saved on her hard drive... If you use KDE, right click on the desktop and select configure desktop. Click screensaver, then expand Banners and Pictures and select slideshow. You can then click setup to tell where your pictures are. Hope that helps. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:45 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it that would serve as input for the screensaver, however, my wife also has the individual pictures from the web site saved on her hard drive... If you use KDE, right click on the desktop and select configure desktop. Click screensaver, then expand Banners and Pictures and select slideshow. You can then click setup to tell where your pictures are. Hope that helps. Dale :-) I'll forward your advice to my wife. We have both Gnome and KDE installed, but we usually use Gnome... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:36:57PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it that would serve as input for the screensaver, however, my wife also has the individual pictures from the web site saved on her hard drive... emerge xscreensaver See if there's one that suits your needs. If not, adding something like that is fairly trivial in linux: you just need to edit .xscreensaver and include a image display program. For example, if you install the image display program qiv, here's what it says in its man page: XSCREENSAVER SUPPORT To use qiv with xscreensaver, either type make install-xscreensaver or add the following to your ~/.Xresources: xscreensaver.programs: \ /usr/bin/qiv -srfid 5 your_pix/\* \n\ /usr/bin/qiv -srfid 5 your_other_pix/\* \n\ W -- Two people turned in problem set 12 without indicating their names! This is true scholarship, done for it's own sake and not for material advantage, like a grade. It is an honor to be associated with such nobility of soul. ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM'03 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 182 days, 15:39 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 19:16 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:36:57PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it that would serve as input for the screensaver, however, my wife also has the individual pictures from the web site saved on her hard drive... emerge xscreensaver See if there's one that suits your needs. If not, adding something like that is fairly trivial in linux: you just need to edit .xscreensaver and include a image display program. For example, if you install the image display program qiv, here's what it says in its man page: XSCREENSAVER SUPPORT To use qiv with xscreensaver, either type make install-xscreensaver or add the following to your ~/.Xresources: xscreensaver.programs: \ /usr/bin/qiv -srfid 5 your_pix/\* \n\ /usr/bin/qiv -srfid 5 your_other_pix/\* \n\ W -- Two people turned in problem set 12 without indicating their names! This is true scholarship, done for it's own sake and not for material advantage, like a grade. It is an honor to be associated with such nobility of soul. ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM'03 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 182 days, 15:39 We followed your advice about adding the lines to ~/Xresources. Now, under what screensaver name will the pictures be displayed? Right now my wife has her screensaver set to Random Screensaver... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:07:23PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan squawked: We followed your advice about adding the lines to ~/Xresources. Now, under what screensaver name will the pictures be displayed? Right now my wife has her screensaver set to Random Screensaver... Hum, I am not quite sure about in Gnome or KDE. Basically, you want to disable all other screensavers. One way to do it is to edit your .xscreensaver file about insert an minus sign - before each program listed. Another way is to add the following to your .Xresources: xscreensaver.mode: one xscreensaver.selected: 1 (I am not quite sure about the second one, it could be 0 instead of 1...) The first command makes xscreensaver run in one program mode, instead of random. The second command specifies the one program to run (c.f. man xscreensaver), the value should be, quote the index in the _programs_ list. But since they recommend setting that value using the xscreensaver-demo program, the man page does not go into detail as to whether the index starts at 0 or 1. W -- Arthur yawed wildly as his skin tried to jump one way and his skeleton the other, whilst his brain tried to work out which of his ears it most wanted to crawl out of. `Bet you weren't expecting to see me again,' said the monster, which Arthur couldn't help thinking was a strange remark for it to make, seeing as he had never met the creature before. He could tell that he hadn't met the creature before from the simple fact that he was able to sleep at nights. - Arthur discovering who had diverted him from going to a party. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 182 days, 17:42 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 18:02 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:45 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for Linux [snip] I'll forward your advice to my wife. We have both Gnome and KDE installed, but we usually use Gnome... If you usually use gnome, then try xscreensaver (with gnome-2.14) or gnome-screensaver (with =gnome-2.14). gnome-screensaver still needs a bit of work. xscreensaver: 1. change random screen saver to only one screen saver 2. choose GLSlideshow, VidWhacker, XTeeVee, Zoom, or any of the other image based screensavers (trial and error :) 3. go to the Advanced tab, and select Choose Random Image 4. enter the directory to your images. gnome-screensaver: 1. Choose pictures folder 2. make a symlink to your picture folder: $ ln -s /path/to/photos ~/Pictures and you're done! If you feel game, you can convert some of the xscreensaver hacks (/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/) to gnome-screensaver xml files (/usr/share/gnome-screensaver/themes/). Post them back if you do so! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses one. -- Charles De Talleyrand-Perigord -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
