Screen Saver

[David Mackintosh]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 03:46:07PM -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> I'm looking for a screen saver that will display different 
> pictures stored in a directory.

Hi Brad

I believe KDE has a picture-shower screensaver (the native KDE does, I'm
not sure about the RedHat supplied version because I don't run KDE).  However,
for Gnome, you can use any program which displays pictures on the root window.

I use xv.  (There are probably better programs, but I'm an old-time
unix dude and I like xv.)  I add a couple of lines to my
~/.xscreensaver file, in the Programs section, like so:

           "XV (cats)"  xv -random -wait 10 -root -rmode 5        \
                             /home/dave/img/cats-good/*            \n\

If you are running in a mode with multiple screensavers selected, you
can have variations on these lines:

           "XV (comix)"  xv -random -wait 10 -root -rmode 5        \
                             /home/dave/img/funny/* /home/dave/img/funny/*/*   \n\

...and they will come up in the appropriate random order.

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