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[tamichan]

I wanted to use my XO as a digital photo frame and tried to install ImageMagick, but the installation failed for asking some additional shared libraries.  After looking for other graphics programs, I installed Picasa for Linux (picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm) and it worked beautifully.  Just by running Picasa's slideshow, I did not have to write any more lines of code for my digital photo frame project! 

Picasa for Linux
http://picasa.google.com/linux/

Tami (Masaaki) Takamiya

[Infamy]

Awesome, It makes me wonder which other google apps will work....

Background switchers might also work well in this case, with lower resource consumption. I haven't been able to test it though

Great work,

Infamy

[isforinsects]

Picasa for Linux runs under WINE, which is typically pretty processor intensive.  I wasn't aware of anyone getting WINE to work on the XO.

Are you running an emulation?

[tamichan]

Picasa for Linux runs under WINE, which is typically pretty processor intensive.  I wasn't aware of anyone getting WINE to work on the XO.

Are you running an emulation?

rpm -ql picasa  shows lots of files under /opt/picasa/wine directory.  So it seems that the Picasa RPM contains the files of WINE in order to run Picasa.

Tami (Masaaki) Takamiya

[Fricka]

Tami, if you use PicasaWeb you can also just browse to your photo album and run the slideshow feature in a browser set to full screen. The highest you can delay it is 20 seconds though.

I did this earlier with the default browser and it works great without having to install an extra program (though I did install Adobe flash but I don't think PicasaWeb uses it?) .

[tamichan]

Tami, if you use PicasaWeb you can also just browse to your photo album and run the slideshow feature in a browser set to full screen. The highest you can delay it is 20 seconds though.

I did this earlier with the default browser and it works great without having to install an extra program (though I did install Adobe flash but I don't think PicasaWeb uses it?) .

Thank you for your information.  It was my first trial to use PicasaWeb and it worked great!

Tami (Masaaki) Takamiya

[aric]

I wanted to use my XO as a digital photo frame . . .

i installed feh and it does exactly what you want.

yum install feh

usage:  feh -options <dir where pics are>
ex.  feh -D 5 --scale-down /media/SD/Casio/dcim/. .   where your pics are.

feh --help | more  will display options and pause one screen at a time.  i think this will make your xo a nice little digital photo frame.

[tamichan]

I wanted to use my XO as a digital photo frame . . .

i installed feh and it does exactly what you want.

yum install feh

usage:  feh -options <dir where pics are>
ex.  feh -D 5 --scale-down /media/SD/Casio/dcim/. .   where your pics are.

feh --help | more  will display options and pause one screen at a time.  i think this will make your xo a nice little digital photo frame.

YES!  This was what I was looking for. Thank you very much!!!

Tami (Masaaki) Takamiya

[rerrett]

1) How did you install picasa?  I downloaded it using the default sugar browser.  The square 'open' icon appeared once it finished downloading, but when I click it, nothing happens.

2) I tried finding the downloaded file on my own using
find . -name "*picasa*"
but got an error message Filesystem loop detected; -what does that mean?

3) Am I correct in assuming that once I find the file, I can just run this line:
 # rpm -Uvh /tmp/picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm
to install it?