sorry, I didn't run the command with chooseRandomImages: True
changing this in the gui wasn't setting it here so I had to add the -images 
argument:

root@T420s:~# xscreensaver-getimage -verbose -directory /mnt/shared/pics 
-images root
xscreensaver-getimage: grabDesktopImages:  True
xscreensaver-getimage: grabVideoFrames:    False
xscreensaver-getimage: chooseRandomImages: True
xscreensaver-getimage: imageDirectory:     /mnt/shared/pics
xscreensaver-getimage: executing: xscreensaver-getimage-file --verbose --name 
/mnt/shared/pics
xscreensaver-getimage-file: recursively reading /mnt/shared/pics...
xscreensaver-getimage-file: f=1344; d=1; s=1; skip=10+1=11.
xscreensaver-getimage-file: cached 1344 files
xscreensaver-getimage-file: /mnt/shared/pics/377640JPRn_w.jpg: 500 x 699
xscreensaver-getimage: file does not exist: "/mnt/shared/pics/377640JPRn_w.jpg"
xscreensaver-getimage: no image files found.
xscreensaver-getimage: drawing colorbars.

now my results are similar to that earlier post

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