The other day I wanted to use my tv for a slideshow of my travel pictures. Something simple, just select a folder and have a program like Shotwell create a slideshow with a random order on my tv. Of course, Ubuntu and double screen equals fail. For some reaason all the programs I tried either were incapable of using the tv as the slideshow screen (even after cloning screens... now that's a wtf) or where not able to recursively use all the pictures in a folder.
feh to the rescue. It's not pretty, but feh seems to be exactly what I was looking for. It's a CLI application for Linux and after some RTFM I came up with this script:
feh ~/Pictures \
--scale-down \
--geometry 1920x760 \
--slideshow-delay 9 \
--recursive \
--randomize \
--auto-zoom \
--draw-filename \
--image-bg blackYou can probably figure out by yourself what each option means. If not, just man feh.
Hi Nicolas,
ReplyDeleteThanks for this, I was amazed that none of the several programs I have, (gwenview, shotwell, default image viewer etc) allow you to simply start a slideshow and have it show in a random order. I can't get feh to work on my second monitor(even with --geometry 1920x1080+1800+0). I think that's a twin view issue though as from what I have read it only supports parts of xinerama.
Thanks again
John
:-)
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