Re: [fim-devel] Picture frame with FIM

[dezperado]

On address@hidden:00, address@hidden wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>    i try to use FIM for a picture frame with Raspberry PI. The picture frame
>    should work without any input device and should cycle the pictures which
>    are on the SD card. (THis pictures will be added and removed in the
>    background)
> 
>    I try to achive this with the following command:
> 
>    fim -R -a -u --slideshow 5 /home/slideshow/pictures
> 
>    The problem is that the slideshow stops at the end and I can't find a
>    solution to restart the slideshow. One more requirement is that the
>    picture list should be rebuild after each cycle.
> 
>    Hopefully very simple for you. ;-)
> 
>    Can you help me?
> 
>    I am using a RASPBIAN Debian Wheezy Release date:2015-05-05
> 
>    I installed: fim-0.5-trunk
> 
>    FIM -V is showing me this:
>    ----------------------------------------------------------
>    FIM - Fbi IMproved 0.5-trunk ( repository version 801 ), by Michele
>    Martone <dezperado _CUT_ autistici _CUT_ org>, built on Jun 14 2015 (
>    based on fbi version 1.31 (c) by 1999-2004 Gerd Hoffmann )
>    Compiled with  libpng version 1.2.49 - March 29, 2012
>    Compiled with libgif,  Version 4.1, .
>    Compiled with libjpeg, v.80.
>    Configuration invocation: ./configure --disable-readline
>    Fim options (features included (+) or not (-)):
>    +FIM_ALLOW_LOADER_STRING_SPECIFICATION  +FIM_AUTHOR_EMAIL  +FIM_AUTHOR
>     +FIM_AUTHOR_NAME  +FIM_AUTOCMDS  +FIM_AUTOSKIP_FAILED  +FIM_BOZ_PATCH
>     +FIM_CHECK_DUPLICATES  +FIM_CHECK_FILE_EXISTENCE
>     +FIM_COMMAND_AUTOCOMPLETION  +FIM_CONFIGURATION  +FIM_DEFAULT_CONFIG
>     +FIM_DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION  +FIM_DEFAULT_KEY_CONFIG
>     +FIM_EXPERIMENTAL_ROTATION  +FIM_HANDLE_GIF  +FIM_HANDLE_TIFF
>     +FIM_ITERATED_COMMANDS  +FIM_LINUX_CONSOLEFONTS_DIR_SCAN  +FIM_NAMESPACES
>     +FIM_NOFB  +FIM_PIPE_IMAGE_READ  +FIM_RANDOM  +FIM_READ_DIRS
>     +FIM_READ_STDIN  +FIM_READ_STDIN_IMAGE  +FIM_RECORDING
>     +FIM_RECURSIVE_DIRS  +FIM_REMOVE_FAILED  +FIM_SKIP_KNOWN_FILETYPES
>     +FIM_SMART_COMPLETION  +FIM_SWITCH_FIXUP  +FIM_TMP_FILENAME
>     +FIM_USE_ZCAT  +FIM_VERSION  +FIM_WANT_CUSTOM_INFO_STATUS_BAR
>     +FIM_WANT_FILENAME_MARK_AND_DUMP  +FIM_WANT_HARDCODED_FONT
>     +FIM_WANT_LONG_INT  +FIM_WANT_RAW_BITS_RENDERING
>     +FIM_WANT_TEXT_RENDERING  +FIM_WINDOWS  +FIM_WITH_BMP  +FIM_WITH_LIBEXIF
>     +FIM_WITH_LIBPNG  +FIM_WITH_PCX
>    FIM_AUTHOR_EMAIL = "<dezperado _CUT_ autistici _CUT_ org>"
>    FIM_AUTHOR = "Michele Martone <dezperado _CUT_ autistici _CUT_ org>"
>    FIM_AUTHOR_NAME = "Michele Martone"
>    FIM_CONFIGURATION = "./configure --disable-readline"
>    FIM_TMP_FILENAME = "/tmp/__FIM_TEMPORARY_FILE"
>    FIM_VERSION = "0.5-trunk"
>    -FIM_BIG_ENDIAN  -FIM_BUGGED_CACHE  -FIM_CACHE_DEBUG
>     -FIM_DEFAULT_CONSOLEFONT  -FIM_KEEP_BROKEN_CONSOLE  -FIM_NOFIMRC
>     -FIM_NOHISTORY  -FIM_TRY_CONVERT  -FIM_TRY_DIA  -FIM_TRY_INKSCAPE
>     -FIM_TRY_XCFTOPNM  -FIM_TRY_XFIG  -FIM_USE_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZERS
>     -FIM_USE_READLINE  -FIM_WANT_EXIFTOOL  -FIM_WANT_NO_OUTPUT_CONSOLE
>     -FIM_WANT_NOSCRIPTING  -FIM_WANT_SEEK_MAGIC  -FIM_WANTS_SLOW_RESIZE
>     -FIM_WANT_STATIC_BINARY  -FIM_WANT_UNICODE  -FIM_WITH_AALIB
>     -FIM_WITH_ARCHIVE  -FIM_WITH_CACALIB  -FIM_WITH_LIBIMLIB2
>     -FIM_WITH_LIBJASPER  -FIM_WITH_LIBSDL  -FIM_WITH_LIBXYZ
>     -FIM_WITH_NO_FRAMEBUFFER  -FIM_WITH_UFRAW
>    CXXFLAGS=-g -O2 -I/usr/include/libpng12
>    Supported output devices (for --output-device):  fb dumb
>    Supported file formats:  pdf jpeg tiff gif png ppm bmp
>    Supported file loaders:  ppm pgm Bit1 Bit24 libungif libtiff-MM libtiff-II
>    libjpeg bmp pcx libpng Text
>    ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
>    I tryed to use also the following command in:
>    /home/slideshow/fimrc
> 
>    :autocmd 'PostExecutionCycle' '*'  'quit';
> 
>    I though this is closing fim but i can still find it in the program list.
> 
>    Thank you in advance.
>    Best Regards
>    Chris
> WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: 
> /home/dez/.cache/keyring-qP3u7f/pkcs11: No such file or directory

Hi Chris,

Does this work the way you would like 
 fim -R -a -u -c 'while(1){sleep 5; next;} ' var/ep/
?