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Offline Oliver

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Re: Linux slideshow software
« on: February 03, 2009, 05:49:39 PM »
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I have looked at qiv already and is almost perfect. The problem with it is that it seems to require a text file containing the names of the images you want it to display (the -F parameter in other words). Do you know if it's possible to use it without that, by telling it to use a directory as the location of the images?


How about automating the generation of a directory list as a text file for qiv to use at startup? Perhaps it would be possible to periodically send a signal to qiv to update its list? I haven't used qiv before, and not sure if it can be caused to update on the fly (i'm thinking in terms of a daemon which can be caused to re-read its environment variables, and settings, etc.).
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Re: Linux slideshow software
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2009, 12:27:17 AM »
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Hmm, good idea! A shell script to create the file and then launch qiv should be just the thing. Thanks!


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