I am looking for a program to display a slide show of a folder with pictures in it. there are many such programs out there I know, but there are a few specific features that i need to have, so im hoping someone who knows can point towards the right program.

The main feature that i need is full screen slide show with the ability to scale up small images to fill the whole screen

also control for how long each slide is shown is a big plus.

that is really all i need.

for some reason i seem to remember gThumb image viewer scalling smaller images up, an would therefore fit the bill to a tee, but when i recently went to test it out, it was not scaling smaller images up, only bigger ones down. i looked up and down for an option to enable such a feature, but came up empty.

im running gnome only, so kde whatnots wont work.



help!

That's too bad. Kuickshow, a KDE program, is exactly what you're looking for. It scales up the image to full screen, whether individually or in the slide show. You can control the amount of scaling, too. You can also adjust how long each slide stays.

to be clear, when i say scale smaller images up, i mean automatically as the slideshow progresses.

i realize that in gthumb there is the ability to hit the fill-screen-zoom button, but that must be done manualy each time the image changes, and that is just not practical when im busy doing other things.

That's exactly what Kuickshow does. Besides you can configure how big the image scales up to, in case you don't want to have the picture quality lowered too much.

Endeavour Mark II might be what you're looking for...

I've never run "gnome only" -- only Gnome for a few minutes a couple years ago -- but you don't have to run KDE to use Kuickshow. My preferred window manager is Fluxbox, under which you can run it. If you have the path to the app, just run it from there:

I can run kuickshow using icewm also.
Another goood viewer is xnview. Used it in Windows, kept using it in Linux also. Is evidently not fussy about what window manaager is running.
Has five options for fitting an image to the window, e.g. fit all, large images only, fit width only.
Also the app is light and fast. I use it to view images in emails because it opens so fast.
You can slideshow a directory with PageUp/PageDown or make a file list to use a a slide show.
Displays a squillion image formats.
Does batch rename/conversion jobs.
Does lossless jpeg fiddling.
Can also display pdfs.
It's really very very handy.
Free
www.xnview.com

thanks guys, i ended up finding gqview which fit the bill to a tee and more.