Hey, I wanted to let everyone know the follow-up to this conversation,
as it was an interesting exercise with a valuable lesson.
Big Plus:
I ended up using kuickshow, as it was the only program I could find that
would scale (for display only) every image during a show to the maximum
screen size, without having to know that screen size in advance. This
was important because I didn't know the projector resolution beforehand.
I actually had two kuickshows running on different virtual windows: one
was cycling through an assortment of slides, while the second I would
advance manually to correspond to my talk. I jumped between the two by
jumping between the virtual windows.
Big Minus:
Big disadvantage of kuickshow: I couldn't see an option to cycle through
slides randomly. I may look into filing a feature request.
Big Lesson:
Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to
display from my laptop. It took a combination of the screen resolution
applet, the Thinkpad Fn buttons, and rebooting, and truthfully, I'm not
sure exactly what did it. We finally got it to work mirroring my laptop
screen, so I didn't have any secrets - whatever I typed was in front of
the audience. This actually was amusing because I opened a terminal to
invoke kuickshow. Later someone from the audience came up and said "Wow,
you do robots, fire, and command line. Really cool." (The talk was about
machine art.)
I have to figure out how to enable an external monitor reliably before I
talk in public again (which will be in Israel next month).
Thanks everyone for your input - as always you are a very helpful and
informative group, and I learned from all of your replies, not just the
one I ended up using. For instance, I had no idea that ImageMagick had
so many features.
Shalom,
Michael
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
Oron Peled <o...@actcom.co.il> writes:
at the very least, i want to point it at a directory of images, and
cycle through them, pausing for a couple of seconds on each picture.
If it's only images (no text slides), than you can simply point
digikam at the directory and press the slide show button.
Another option (images only, your computer, KDE app) is kuickshow.
If you don't know which computer you will be using, and/or it is a
general presentation (not just images), go with PDF. On Linux I
actually prefer kpdf to display slides, but acroread may be more
common and more familiar.
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