Tiny Core Linux

General TC => Programming & Scripting - Unofficial => Topic started by: clivesay on March 14, 2014, 02:41:43 PM

Title: TC as a Powerpoint Show
Post by: clivesay on March 14, 2014, 02:41:43 PM

Hey all. Haven't been around here in a long time. I have been tasked with a project at work and think TC is perfect but I could use some guidance by people who have maybe done this before.

I am going to have a small computer mounted to the back of a big screen that is to do nothing but cycle thru a slideshow. So I just need TC to boot and immediately start a full screen powerpoint slideshow. I know that the ppt will probably have to be converted but would love any input anybody would have on getting going with this.

Thank you!

Chris

Title: Re: TC as a Powerpoint Show
Post by: gerald_clark on March 14, 2014, 03:49:34 PM

If you want to start an X program at login, put a script to start it in ~/.X.d.
Just make sure the script exits after starting the X application.

Title: Re: TC as a Powerpoint Show
Post by: tinypoodle on March 20, 2014, 08:04:24 PM

If you wanted to use the ppt format directly, I could only think of libreoffice.
Else you could convert into a common image format once, there are various image viewers which have a  slideshow feature.