xv as a slideshow screensaver

Posted Mar 25, 2004 5:08 UTC (Thu) by scripter (subscriber, #2654)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

Since I have a digital camera, I like my screen saver randomly cycle through the photos I have, displaying them ever 6 seconds. Currently, I use a modified .xscreensaver, a shell script and xv to display the images. Is there an easier way? It seems like there should be. Something as easy to configure as the screensaver slideshow that comes with Windows XP.

Reply to this post if you want my xscreensaver + zsh + xv slideshow.

xv as a slideshow screensaver

Posted Mar 25, 2004 9:51 UTC (Thu) by wjhenney (guest, #11768) [Link] (1 responses)

If you use KDE then you can set this up very easily with Kslideshow. Choose "Appearance & Themes"->"Screen Saver" in the Control Center, then "Banners & Pictures"->"Slideshow". The "Setup" dialog then lets you select a directory that it will search for images (with the option of searching subdirs too). The delay between images is also configurable.

Presumably GNOME has something similar.

xv as a slideshow screensaver

Posted Jun 3, 2004 15:21 UTC (Thu) by dillthedog (guest, #22052) [Link]

This is what I did until recently. However after upgrading KDE it seems to be a bit broken. I have looked for similar under gnome but although there are a few screensavers that can work on an image directory they all do fancy things to the image rather than just transition from one image to another in a slideshow.

xv as a slideshow screensaver

Posted Jun 3, 2004 15:19 UTC (Thu) by dillthedog (guest, #22052) [Link]

I'd be quite interested to know how you do this. I used to use the KDE screensaver as described by the other poster but it seems to be quite broken after I upgraded KDE recently to 3.2.

xv as a slideshow screensaver

Posted Feb 20, 2007 10:39 UTC (Tue) by jackn (guest, #43435) [Link]

I'd love to get hold of your way of setting up a screensaver slideshow with XV.

I've tried chbg as an xscreensaver client, but chbg wouldn't install. Some say it's buggy. I can't find help.

I've looked at XV. It works in your hands, which is great. It is shareware, charging $25, isn't it?!

Thanks a bunch,
Jackn