SOLVED - feh - slideshow kiosk - blank screen

[Aibo]

I have pieced together a number of old components we had sitting around to construct a promotion kiosk in the lobby of our facilities. Built into a kiosk we installed an old monitor, mounted in the top of the kiosk is an old dell desktop. The goal is simple. Have a slideshow of upcoming events cycle through on the screen. Yes, I know using LinuxMint is a bit of overkill for our needs, but I am most familiar with LinuxMint as it is my day-to-day OS.

Everything works fine except two annoying issues. I would love some help getting them worked out!

I am using feh to call the photos on start-up via adding a command via Menu->Preferences->Start-up Applications

Code: Select all

feh -FZ -D8 /home/aibo/Pictures 

First issue here (the minor issue): The system boots from power off right into the slideshow, but the taskbar at the bottom remains visible. How to get the taskbar not to show?

Second issue (the major issue): After a few minutes the screen goes blank! Move the mouse and feh is still running, but after a few more minutes same thing. Of course the idea is to have the kiosk completely hands off.

What I have tried:

1. Setting the Screensaver to 2 hours -> no effect, after a few minutes screen blanks
2. Checked the Power Management, setting everything to NEVER, still after a few minutes screen blanks
3. Checked the BIOS, not setting for blank screen or power save
4. Tried removing Power Management from the Menu->Preferences->Start-up Applications, after a few minutes screen blanks!!

I am not sure what else to try!! Any ideas out there?

Thanks in advance!

[Elisa]

I never used feh so I can just suggest some cool sites' information, it might help or navigate u:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Linu ... 27781.html
http://wwww.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9537216
http://www.go2linux.org/feh-light-weigh ... -for-linux
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/graphics-other.html#feh

P.S. As for the bar, did u set it to autohide?

[Aibo]

Elisa, thanks for the autohide suggestion. Minor issue solved.

Also thanks for the leads! However, the http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Linu ... 27781.html makes me enter a credit card to see the solution! That kinda defies the FREEdom part of your tag line Any chance you know what their proposed solution is without me having to sign up and cancel a subscription?

As for the feh commands. I am satisfied with the work that feh is currently doing, but always good to gain some more commands/ideas. The main issue is the blank screen which seems to be a ubuntu/linuxmint/maybe Debian issue? Any chance someone might know the solution hidden behind that pay wall?

Thanks!!

I never used feh so I can just suggest some cool sites' information, it might help or navigate u:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Linu ... 27781.html
http://wwww.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9537216
http://www.go2linux.org/feh-light-weigh ... -for-linux
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/graphics-other.html#feh

P.S. As for the bar, did u set it to autohide?

[Elisa]

Maybe this could help (BLANK_TIME) - http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-668229.html
(and/+/or/xor or whatever ) - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... ost4993141

P.S. I "reviewed the 'experts...' page" and maybe the solution is here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=cz

If there's that solution and u saved some bucks, ok, send at least 1 buck to LinuxMINT HQ, right ?

[Aibo]

Ok found some hope here ...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1283057

trying it now:

Re: Disable Blank Screen on Idle
Ok. So I've found a solution. First, you can find some background information here. Apparently, this screen blanking behavior is built into Xorg.

I've figured out how to turn it off using these commands:

Code:

xset s off
xset -dpms
xset s noblank

[Aibo]

Hey just wanted to let everyone know ... the below commands solved my problems! No blank screen, working beautifully.

xset s off
xset -dpms
xset s noblank