On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:24, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Benjamin Rutt sez: > } I have a .jpg image that keeps changing (from a webcam). Is there an > } image viewer in debian's packages that will display the image and > } automatically refresh the image when it has changed? I've already > } tried gqview, xli and display, and qiv. ('display -update 1' doesn't > } update as advertised). > > Let us assume that your image is the free JenniCam, which updates every 20 > minutes, and that you have a cron job or some other process doing the > downloading: > > #!/bin/sh > > WATCHIMG="/tmp/jennicam.jpg" > > display -immutable "$WATCHIMG" & > while true > do > sleep 1200 > display -remote "$WATCHIMG" > done
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