Kevin wrote:
> I'm converting an old laptop into a digital picture frame. I am looking for
> suggestions on a piece of software that can be launched automatically when X
> starts up and immediately go into full screen slideshow mode, endlessly
> looping through jpeg's in a folder. Zero user interaction.
We might be doing something like that at work. I worked with a
recycling non profit in St.Louis that was constantly scrapping old
notebooks (486, p1) and I always wanted to do this with them. The
problems became how to get the pictures to the laptops.
486s didn't have cd, network, or even pcmcia (usually) and p1's didn't
always have CDs, never network, and have you ever tried to take apart a
486 or P1 laptop? Most of them are built like tanks.
So it never went anywhere. Even with the machines that had pcmcia we
didn't have network cards for them and the few we did have never had
dongles so it always came down to spending money to make it work (which
was out of the question--remember we're talking bulk re-use of many
machines).
Let us know how it works out.
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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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