Comments on: My Photos screensaver for the console http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: More fun with the My Photos screensaver « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47181 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:30:47 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47181 [...] small confession to make: I’ve been having a lot more fun than I anticipated with the img2txt MyPhotos screensaver I reluctantly cobbled together the other [...]

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47117 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:08:09 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47117 Hi David. I have tried Slackware a few times and should probably spend more time with it. My biggest problem always seems to be dependencies: I know full well that I will need to pay close attention, but I grow frustrated and tend to quit after a bit. I promise to try harder next time, and not just jump to something easy like Salix or Slax.

As far as X on Crux 2.3+, I haven’t had any problems with older machines up to 2.7, but the core duo requires some kernel-level settings that I hadn’t figured out, last time I tried it. It’s also something I should spend more time with. ;)

But for the Trident-driven machines and for the C&T card in this Pentium, I haven’t had any problems getting X working. Not that I use it very often though, either. :roll:

]]> By: David http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47116 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:28:42 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47116 Did you have some bad experience with Slackware? Is that why you never write about it?
Seems like you write about every other distro except Slackware,
so I was just wondering why you don’t like it.

Also I was wondering, have you ever gotten X11 to work on Crux?
I like Crux, but have not got X working on it since version 2.3.
Actually, X worked on Crux version 2.6 until I rebooted and then it was gone and no amount of fiddling could get it working again.

Well written, interesting blog, by the way.

]]> By: Yu-Jie Lin http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47086 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:38:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47086 Second thought, I am not sure if checkwinsize will update variables in running script.

I just came up another idea, just `source` the script will also do the trick.

]]> By: Yu-Jie Lin http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47085 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:35:51 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/my-photos-screensaver-for-the-console/#comment-47085 About columns and lines, you need to export them before run the script and `shopt -s checkwinsize` if the terminal size might change, with `trap` the SIGWINCH signal is better.

Or you can just run `tput cols` and `tput lines` to get those two numbers.

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