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Old Laptop -> Digital Picture Frame? Ubuntu?
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Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
Hey, H/A!
I have an older Dell laptop that I had previously mounted under my kitchen cabinet.
It was kinda cool as a concept, but since the laptop is older (512ish RAM) and took awhile to boot and had lousy sound quality, I never really used it. Since I already reversed the monitor, though, I wanted to see about making it a picture frame of sorts.
Question: Can anyone speculate as to a way to have a laptop boot into Ubuntu and immediately proceed to cycling between pictures either on the local machine or a (Windows) network share? I'm handy around computers, I just lack the working knowledge of Linux.
Any help here is greatly appreciated!
I have an older Dell laptop that I had previously mounted under my kitchen cabinet.
It was kinda cool as a concept, but since the laptop is older (512ish RAM) and took awhile to boot and had lousy sound quality, I never really used it. Since I already reversed the monitor, though, I wanted to see about making it a picture frame of sorts.
Question: Can anyone speculate as to a way to have a laptop boot into Ubuntu and immediately proceed to cycling between pictures either on the local machine or a (Windows) network share? I'm handy around computers, I just lack the working knowledge of Linux.
Any help here is greatly appreciated!
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Looks like (according to Google) this is pretty easy to do with Ubuntu and a tool called gthumb. I'd just dive right in with Ubuntu, it's a really really easy OS to get up and running.
Good find.
I just got it up and running in about 10 mins. since reading this thread. edit: Well, on a - also Dell - laptop running Ubuntu. Install took 1hr+ due to slow machine.
Install Ubuntu 11.04, the latest version, and once installed, switch to Ubuntu Classic mode.
Install gthumb from the Software Center (Applications -> Ubuntu Software Center -> search for 'gthumb'.
Use the info in that thread, to add the auto-start item, use:
Name: gthumb
Command: gthumb -s --slideshow /home/[YOUR ACCOUNT]/Desktop/[YOUR ACCOUNT]/Pictures
You'll have to set up the auto-login, but that's pretty easy as well with info in thread.
check if that thing can boot from a USB drive, or even CD - that might broaden your options.