I am trying to find a reasonable way to do a simple digital signage project and DSL looks promising. The DSmachine and the frugal load make a lot of sense for a machine that is basically going to idle 24 hours a day, 7 days a week while running a "power-point" type endless loop.
My question is does anyone have any suggestions for an application to do this? The Impress module of Open Office would work, but it is not very flexible and does not do any of the "non-slideshow" things we would like to do (i.e. run an RSS feed across the bottom of the display or have different panels within the display that are controlled separately)
The commercial applications that I have found are mostly Windoze based or an embedded Linux based system and all of them are very expensive.
TIAOh, an ad screen. Sure any Linux system can do that. Not a single app, but each app for it's own task (rss reader etc).For separating parts of the screen, some window manager may be able to do that..I'd use ratpoison for the window manager, and a simple image viewer like feh to display the images. I think both exist as extensions in the mydsl repositories.
Feel free to pm me if you need specific assistance.
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The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames.