Any way I can have Non Full screen/Windowed image slideshow

[naveedunjum]

I need to play a photo slideshow on the side while i am working on some other thing. I can't find anything that does such a thing. Please help

[hal8000]

There were lots of ways in kde 4 ....

Anyway found one method, install kodi:

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sudo apt install kodi

Start kodi then go to system, display, set to windowed and adjust window to your desired size.

Now press escape to go to main kodi window and go to pictures. Click add files and select your folder.

When complete right click on an image and choose start slideshow from here.

It is the ONLY slideshow Ive found that features a slow zoom effect similar to ken burns
eddect in kde4. Not sure if that effect can be disabled but its not bad.
Hope that helps

[LPH_[retired]]

the command line viewer feh will do this for you
Check out the man for additional options but as an example on a 1920x1080 screen and initiating feh from a folder of images use

feh -z -D 3 -r -g 960 -. -B Black ./*

-z is random display order
-D is 3 second delay between images
-r folder recursion
-g is screen geometry size to show the image in, if you specify just the 960 on a 1920x1080 it will use the left half of your screen.
if you specify 960x540 the image will display in the upper left quadrant of your screen

-. scale the images down to fit the geometry size

-B use black as image background for those images that don't completely fill the half window

./* all files in the current folder

another example

feh -z -D 3 -r -g 960x540+250+250 -. -B Black ./*

only difference here is the 960x540 view windows is postioned not at 0x0 but at 250x250

Add a -x to remove the border on the viewer window

there are lots of other options available include supplying a filelist via a textfile