Random Slideshow Programs

FizzyWidget · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:36 pm Post subject: Random Slideshow Programs

Which are the best ones to go for, I have gentoo on my laptop which I use when I am travelling and doing presentations, what I would like is for the slide show to go into recursive directories, so far I have only found Digikam to be able to do this, but I do not wish to have KDE installed, I like my little XFCE desktop too much, I know I could compile Digikam and the required KDE libs, but this would defeat the purpose of having a lite weight desktop in the first place, I have seen many programs that can do slide shows but they all seem to lack (or I have missed the function in settings in said programs) to do recursive directories
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baaann · Guru Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 558 Location: uk

It's been a while since I used it, but I think feh should fulfill your requirements

FizzyWidget · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:29 pm Post subject:

thanks will give it a look over

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Knute · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 362 Location: Fargo, ND

Yeah, I would recommend feh as well.

FizzyWidget · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 8:36 pm Post subject:

Sounds just like what I need, when you say adding it to a script I am guessing you mean a .sh file and then running slideshow.sh

#/bin/bash
feh -xdrzZFD 6 <directory>

(you'll note I am not a script man yet, little steps

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Knute · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 362 Location: Fargo, ND

Yeah, except you will want to replace <directory> with either $1 (so that you can use it on multiple directories) or the actual directory you want it to run, and then making it executable.

Also, you can change the 6 to a different value to either speed up or slow down the slideshow.
There are other variables that you can use as well, or even drop depending on what you want to do with it.
The feh man page is pretty detailed (and sometimes confusing), but if you play with the settings a little bit, you will soon figure it out.
Just be careful if you turn on the recursive and multiwindow mode at the same time. If you have a large directory of pictures that you open up, it can put a pretty heavy load on the machine.

Oh yeah, another use for feh is as an image preview. If you set --cycle-once with the -D <timeout> option, and use one image, feh will display the image for that many seconds and then end. It's kind of handy at times.

HTH
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frostschutz · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany

There aren't (m)any good image viewers unfortunately.

To me, feh is seriously annoying.