Digital Photo Frame/RSS Reader

    Uses the Online News screen saver to display RSS feeds, photos, and weather info. The photos are updated/download via batch file that runs as a scheduled job each night.

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    1. holotone (52 months ago | reply)

      Ah, sweet! Have build notes / code available for this project?

    2. kindachris (52 months ago | reply)

      The output kinda reminds me of the Online News screensaver for Windows.

    3. mpbubb (52 months ago | reply)

      I think that is the Knoppix 5.0 desktop, not Windows.

      Great project thaks!

    4. 007Ben (52 months ago | reply)

      kindachris: it is the online news screensaver. on windows 2k...

      mpbubb At the time of building I didn't want to take the time to figure out how to get linux not to sleep the display after a period of time, something I still haven't quite figured out (not that I've tried).

      The laptop used is pretty low spec only 64mb of ram, 10gig or less HD and I think its only running at 266Mhz.

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    6. mdwyer (52 months ago | reply)

      I believe these two commands are what you are looking for. One half turns the power-saving features off (DPMS), the other turns the x-native screen blanker off.
      xset s off -dpms

      Incidently, in a non-X console environment, the command you want is
      setterm -blank 0 -powersave off

    7. Fibra (52 months ago | reply)

      Looking good. I like white border.

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