slideshow-screensaver 0.1

Slideshow screensaver for Gnome based on Pygame

Introduction

Slideshow Screensaver is a screensaver for Gnome which displays a new photo every 10 seconds from $HOME/Pictures. If you want to customize the photo directory, the time between photos or the screensaver delay you will need to edit the source code for now.

This is a very simple app which, for now, might not play nicely with xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, etc.

Installation

1. Install the system-wide dependencies:

   • python 2.7

   • python-gobject (for GObject 3+)

   • dbus-python

2. Install the python package:

   sudo pip install slideshow-screensaver

3. Configure the screensaver to run automatically:

   • Disable any other screensavers.

   • Make watch-idle.py run at startup.

Plans

Short-term

• GUI Configuration.

• Use Gnome-Session to start watch-idle

• Use Gnome-Session to watch for idle

• Don’t clash with gnome-screensaver

• Distribution packages

Long-term

• Work with other (or no) desktop environments

• Python 3

• Cool Transitions

• Ability to pause slideshow, open file in photo manager, …

• Take over the world.