I shifted my approach a little, now heading in the direction as seen below. I think I like the look of this the best so far. I spent way too much time trying to figure out either:
1. Globally set the alpha channel of all pixels for /dev/fb0 to get some transparency in the linux frame buffer. 2. Globally set the alpha channel of all pixels on a dispmanx layer to get some transparency and then change the layer assigned to linux (-127). I never got either of those methods working. Basically I wanted to get blurred, full screen background image in a dispmanx layer behind the semi-transparent linux console layer then the full resolution cover art in a dispmanx layer above the linux console: blurred background layer ==> semi-transparent linux console layer ==> cover art layer I threw in the towel on both 1 and 2 above and now have this order as seen in the screenshots below: linux console layer ==> semi-transparent blurred background layer ==> cover art layer The semi-transparent background layer allows the cava audio visualizer running in the console to show through, though the colors are a bit muted which might actually be a good thing. I've managed to get the time needed to download, convert, manipulate and display the images to about 2.5s. I'd like it a bit faster but it's better than the 9+ seconds I was getting initially before I started to optimize the graphicsmagick conversion steps. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: snapshot3.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26037| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109694 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
