[olug] Digital picture frame distro

[T. J. Brumfield]

Honestly I was thinking along similar lines even though I've never
done a setup like this.  I would use a very minimal distro like DSL,
or maybe even roll something up myself from LFS.  Just have a bootup
script that starts X and then displays images.  You can use VNC or SSH
to remote in, and then no need for a keyboard.

-- T. J.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
>> For the screen in the wall at the shop, I just have it startup to a
>> prompt, then launch X from a script through 'local' start. The script
>> runs startx, ...
>
> Thanks, Jay.  So you still have to have a keyboard accessible in order
> to log in, right?  I wonder if it's possible to replace g/kdm with
> another app that would start X and run as a service on startup so that
> I wouldn't have to touch the keyboard or mouse pad (touch screen
> support in Fedora 9 & Ubuntu 8.04 sucked on this model -- haven't tried
> the latest releases yet).  There'd be virtually no writing done to the
> drive, so I'm not concerned with simply powering it off when done.
>
> I've never monkeyed with g/kdm before.  Do any of you know off the
> top of your head what it would take to run an arbitrary X app instead
> of the login manager?  If not, I can google as well as anybody...
>
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