Hi guys,

I'm building a system for a presentation in a shop (bargains, accessories, various information)
Here at LQ, a user (catkin) pointed me to gqview and I got it working from command line but I can not get it to run in a loop.

There is also a dvd with a promotional video which I wanted to be able to play. I succeeded by using VLC and starting a playlist from command line.

My questions:
1) does anyone know of a way to loop a presentation of pics in gqview or is there another program to achieve this?
2) how can I automatically start these programs with the switches after logon? (not simultaneously of course)

I'm using debian and I have tried by adding:to rc.local but nothing happens.

I know that this is not the best way but I don't understand how to do it differently.

Thanks a lot for your ideas!
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After user logon, you will want to use ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile, in that order of preference, I believe. It might be dependent on your login manager which one of the files is run (and on your shell, of course), but to me, ~/.profile has always been a safe bet.

As for gqview, there is a General -> Slideshow -> Repeat setting in the preferences dialogue, that should help.

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Hi Vinter, thank you for your reply!
I'm using gnome but I cannot find any of those files that you refer to.

Can you enlighten me about how to find the path of vlc because I have different directories with vlc.

Do you know whether it's possible to run gqview full screen - without toolbars - and start the slideshow automatically?
It is possible to have it that way if I start it from command line but then the repeat option is not available...

The point is that I would like to get it working without any user intervention so it's fool proof.

Try There should be ~/.config/vlc folder with your configuration.
Btw instead of launching vlc in rc.local, launch it from ~/.config/autostart

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Hi ~sHyLoCk~, thank you for your answer!

I had found in the gqview manual how to run it from command line in full screen. It gives me almost exactly what I need with:but apparently there is no switch to make run in a loop...

Uhm, which VLC...
I have installed VLC media player as a deb package, it's version 0.8.6h

There is no ~/.config/vlc folder.

I understand that running from rc.local is not the best option but I have no clue how & where to put the command with switches so it runs at startup.
~/.config/autostart seems to be a folder, I guess it's like the startup folder in windows but what is the correct syntax for these commands.

The .bash files are not what you want here because those are meant for when you start a bash terminal. Gnome, however, has a control panel for auto-starting applications when you login:

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/08/add...mes-autostart/

If that link doesn't explain well enough there are plenty of others that will show up in a quick google search.

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Thank you CoderMan for pointing me in that direction; it's working fine now!

Those are hidden files (anything with a . at the start is hidden), and so won't be visible unless you turn on "Show hidden files" (or the equivalent) in your file manager.

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Thanks a lot Total-MAdMaN, I did not think about hidden files and had no clue how linux handles these.