On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 19:16 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:36:57PM -0500, Penguin Lover Michael Sullivan > squawked: > > My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for > > Linux that would allow her to display her cat pictures as a screensaver. > > I would like to know if anything like this is available in portage. If > > it helps, we have a website with all the pictures on it that would serve > > as input for the screensaver, however, my wife also has the individual > > pictures from the web site saved on her hard drive... > > > > emerge xscreensaver > > See if there's one that suits your needs. If not, adding something > like that is fairly trivial in linux: you just need to edit > .xscreensaver and include a image display program. For example, if you > install the image display program qiv, here's what it says in its man > page: > > XSCREENSAVER SUPPORT > To use qiv with xscreensaver, either type "make install-xscreensaver" > or add the following to your ~/.Xresources: > > xscreensaver.programs: \ > /usr/bin/qiv -srfid 5 your_pix/\* \n\ > /usr/bin/qiv -srfid 5 your_other_pix/\* \n\ > > W > -- > Two people turned in problem set 12 without indicating their names! > This is true scholarship, done for it's own sake and not for > material advantage, like a grade. > It is an honor to be associated with such nobility of soul. > ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM'03 > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 182 days, 15:39
We followed your advice about adding the lines to ~/Xresources. Now, under what screensaver name will the pictures be displayed? Right now my wife has her screensaver set to Random Screensaver... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
