Problems with my Slideshow Screensaver
Posted: Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:35
Hello,
A while back I was working on a slideshow screensaver..A recent poster caused me to revive the project..Here is where I am so far..
Part the first....
I have a slideshow Pet, attached below, which works fine now, I think..No one has tested it yet..In my tests it worked on 431, 412, Quirky, and UPup..
On one occasion it failed to place the `loop link in /usr/share/backgrounds. (keeps the slideshow repeating..) Other than that it seems to work well..Places a menu entry under "desktop" and uses backgrounds for its source..
Part the second...
I have a script that checks mouse/keyboard activity, and it starts the slideshow fine after the 2 minute timeout.. The problem is after another 2 minutes it starts it again.. I`ve tried a "killall pidof" statement, to no avail..
Also the only way to currently stop the slideshow is "esc".. I would like to add another loop to check for mouse activity while it is running, to kill it that way.. I will eventually hack my way to an answer, but tips would help..
If I post the script in a tarball, would any one like to check it out, and see where I went wrong..Be nice..LOL..I have been "out of the loop" for a while and I`ve probably missed something stupid..
Otherwise, please test the slideshow pet and tell me where and when it works for you..
Thanks...Jay..
A while back I was working on a slideshow screensaver..A recent poster caused me to revive the project..Here is where I am so far..
Part the first....
I have a slideshow Pet, attached below, which works fine now, I think..No one has tested it yet..In my tests it worked on 431, 412, Quirky, and UPup..
On one occasion it failed to place the `loop link in /usr/share/backgrounds. (keeps the slideshow repeating..) Other than that it seems to work well..Places a menu entry under "desktop" and uses backgrounds for its source..
Part the second...
I have a script that checks mouse/keyboard activity, and it starts the slideshow fine after the 2 minute timeout.. The problem is after another 2 minutes it starts it again.. I`ve tried a "killall pidof" statement, to no avail..
Also the only way to currently stop the slideshow is "esc".. I would like to add another loop to check for mouse activity while it is running, to kill it that way.. I will eventually hack my way to an answer, but tips would help..
If I post the script in a tarball, would any one like to check it out, and see where I went wrong..Be nice..LOL..I have been "out of the loop" for a while and I`ve probably missed something stupid..
Otherwise, please test the slideshow pet and tell me where and when it works for you..
Thanks...Jay..