[mythtv-users] MythGallery, or something like it

Steve stevemyth at priorityelectronics.com
Tue Mar 22 04:26:50 UTC 2011


>> Yes, you can use a program called feh
>>
>> http://linux.die.net/man/1/feh
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>> It is a great slideshow program, and is very quick and light on
>> resources. Will run even on a pentium 1 just fine.
>>
>> The only thing it does not do is have nice transitions. But it never
>>      
> Yes thanks very much - just set this up. Wish there were some transitions -
> something else I liked in MythGallery.
>
> I also tried installing just MythGallery but it finds (cool!) and requires
> a connection to (not so cool) my backend which is too old for the latest
> frontend release. Would be nice to just have that code without the backend
> connection.
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I am glad to hear you got feh going. What is nice is that you will not 
have to touch that computer when you do myth updates on the myth-boxes 
you have in the house. It would be nice if myth offered some sort of 
backwards compatibility so that you didn't have to upgrade all the 
computers at the same time. In some households it is a big undertaking 
to do an update because you risk something going wrong on one of the 
clients, even if it's non myth related. (like a new ubuntu version)

Feh is simple, fast, and easy to use from the command line. Plus, it's 
one of the only command line slideshow programs I know of. Use it and 
xbindkeys and you can set a hotkey on your keyboard to start or stop 
different slideshows.

-Steve



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