[SOLVED] FEH slideshow

frankzen · 10-05-2012, 11:33 AM

I am trying to write a script to for a slideshow using FEH. I have a 1650x1080 monitor but I want the show to be in a 1024x768 window..surrounded by black. FEH doesn't seem to have any options for surrounding a window with black...or have I missed something ???

Thanks

frankbell · 10-05-2012, 09:18 PM

I found this in man feh:

Code:

     --bg-tile file
             Set file as desktop background, tiled if necessary.  feh can use enlightenment IPC if you are running it, or it will fall back to X methods.  feh stores the commandline necessary to restore the background in ~/.fehbg.  So to have your background restored when you restart X, add the line "`cat ~/.fehbg`" to your X          startup script (e.g. ~/.xinitrc).  Note that you only need to do this for non E window managers.

Perhaps you could tile a black image for the background.

I also found this:

Code:

     -B, --image-bg style
             Use style as background for transparent image parts and the like.  Accepted values: white, black, default

There are also "format specifiers" towards the end of the man file that can be used to control the height and width of the image. Whether they can be combined with the background settings to produce the effect of an image framed by a background, I don't know. The man page doesn't really address that, and I'm not really in a position to test it tonight, but hopefully this will give you starting point.

frankzen · 10-05-2012, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

I found this in man feh:

Code:

     --bg-tile file
             Set file as desktop background, tiled if necessary.  feh can use enlightenment IPC if you are running it, or it will fall back to X methods.  feh stores the commandline necessary to restore the background in ~/.fehbg.  So to have your background restored when you restart X, add the line "`cat ~/.fehbg`" to your X          startup script (e.g. ~/.xinitrc).  Note that you only need to do this for non E window managers.

Perhaps you could tile a black image for the background.

Something I could try - only catch would be I'd have to restore my BG afterwards. Seems a really complicated
way to achieve what I want..but I'll give it a shot

Quote:

I also found this:

Code:

     -B, --image-bg style
             Use style as background for transparent image parts and the like.  Accepted values: white, black, default

There are also "format specifiers" towards the end of the man file that can be used to control the height and width of the image. Whether they can be combined with the background settings to produce the effect of an image framed by a background, I don't know. The man page doesn't really address that, and I'm not really in a position to test it tonight, but hopefully this will give you starting point.

I have tried the -B parameter but it had no effect.

What I've done in the interim is to load a full screen xterm, then run feh with the geometry set to 1024x768..that works.
I also emailed feh's new maintainer...and he suggested resizing all the jpgs to 1024x768, then running feh with the --fullscreen parameter. That sort of works
but the resizing is a PITA.

Thanks for your suggestions

frankbell · 10-06-2012, 08:02 PM

You might try batch converting with either convert or imagemagick. If it were me, I'd make copies of the images first, then test on the copies.

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l...l1_convert.htm

http://linuxconfig.org/batch-image-r...x-command-line