[olug] Digital picture frame distro

[Jay Swackhamer]

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, and then a slideshow script that scans a directory, and  
puts any images as the desktop background using xsetbg. It also scans  
for video and plays those. Two loops, so that if you add/remove files,  
the script picks up the changes on the next list.

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Quoting Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com>:

> I've got a couple old laptops with 10" touch screens that fold over like
> tablets.  My initial plan was to turn them into digital picture frames
> and hang them from the wall, but the more I think about it, the more
> of a pain that sounds like with a standard distro (remove from wall,
> unfold keyboard, boot, login, run slide show, fold over to hide kbd,
> and finally re-hang on wall just to get the thing running).  Do any
> of you know of any distros that can boot up by default into a slide
> show while still allowing wireless connectivity and ssh access for
> remote admin?
>
> If no such beast exists, I'm trying to decide if it's worth the trouble
> to roll my own or if I should just break down and spend $100 on a
> standard frame for my wife for Christmas.
>
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> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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