Trying to have xscreensaver - for a digital picture frame

[Richard Cranium]

I found this old beat up Compaq laptop at a local thrift store for a grand total of $5 and had the idea to make a picture frame out of it using TC ..

TC runs on it fine ... so I'm gonna go ahead with it...  but I'm running into a little snag .., Now this laptop Doesn't have ethernet/wifi so booted TC 16.2 on another machine to look in the repos for what I need (xscreensaver) , but as I recall , I need the GL portions  of xscreensaver , which aren't there , I saw an xscreensaver-extra listed in the description , but i can't install it because it seems to be unavailable in the repo..

Could someone help me on this???    Is there another simply slideshow screenaver I could use???

[GNUser]

Hi Richard. Which architecture are you using? If x86_64, check out yscreensaver.tcz (for X) and wscreensaver.tcz (for wayland).

[Rich]

Hi Richard Cranium
Take a look at fbv.tcz. It is available in TC16 x86 and x86_64.
It is very lightweight and does not require X to run.

feh.tcz might also be worth a look, also available in TC16 x86 and x86_64.

[Richard Cranium]

Hi Richard. Which architecture are you using? If x86_64, check out yscreensaver.tcz (for X) and wscreensaver.tcz (for wayland).

Just plain old x86   .. it's a lousy 300 mhz

[Richard Cranium]

Hi Richard Cranium
Take a look at fbv.tcz. It is available in TC16 x86 and x86_64.
It is very lightweight and does not require X to run.

feh.tcz might also be worth a look, also available in TC16 x86 and x86_64.

They can do a "picture slideshow" ?  I'll check that out...

[GNUser]

Hi Richard Cranium. The two screensaver applications I suggested are only for x86_64, unfortunately.

But all is not lost. If what you're looking for is just a simple "picture slideshow," then I'd go with Rich's idea of using feh.

Put your pictures in a directory--for example, /home/tc/Pictures/slideshow--and decide how long you want to show each picture. To show each picture for 5 seconds, for example, all you need is this command:

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feh -r -D 5 -F -Z /home/tc/Pictures/slideshow

[Richard Cranium]

Hi Richard Cranium. The two screensaver applications I suggested are only for x86_64, unfortunately.

But all is not lost. If what you're looking for is just a simple "picture slideshow," then I'd go with Rich's idea of using feh.

Put your pictures in a directory--for example, /home/tc/Pictures/slideshow--and decide how long you want to show each picture. To show each picture for 5 seconds, for example, all you need is this command:

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feh -r -D 5 -F -Z /home/tc/Pictures/slideshow

I'll look into this . so.. 64 bit only on the others??  that Doesn't make sense ..

What about GL slideshow for xscreensaver??  that would be ideal...

[Rich]

Hi Richard Cranium
You said:

Just plain old x86   .. it's a lousy 300 mhz

Based on that, I would think you'd want something lightweight, like feh for example.

... What about GL slideshow for xscreensaver??  that would be ideal...

Is the video card compatible with OpenGL?

[Richard Cranium]

Is the video card compatible with OpenGL?

I really have no idea .. I would assume so , but can't verify..

[Richard Cranium]

Hi Richard Cranium
You said:

Just plain old x86   .. it's a lousy 300 mhz

Based on that, I would think you'd want something lightweight, like feh for example.

I'm assuming it's possible to make "feh" start up automatically?  (system startup) , If so , .... uh how? lol   

Also , could someone clearify on how to go about making xscreensaver start automatically???  I'm a little confused...

[Rich]

Hi Richard Cranium
This was your original goal:

I found this old beat up Compaq laptop at a local thrift store for a grand total of $5 and had the idea to make a picture frame out of it using TC ...

That means you don't need a GUI.

You only need to install  graphics-KERNEL  and  fbv.

You'll want a persistent  /home  where you'll keep the pictures to be displayed, for example:

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/home/tc/MyPictures/
At the end of  /home/tc/.profile  place this:

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while true; do fbv -f -a -e -i -s 50 MyPictures/*; doneThis will display each picture for 5 seconds.
Each picture will be sized to fit the screen as best as possible.
When it reaches the last picture, it restarts the sequence.

I know fbv supports .jpg and .png formats.

Options for fbv can be displayed with:

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fbv --help