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sativen

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Posted: July 08 2005,17:17

I am trying to make a digital picture frame, and use DSL, and feh to do it. I have played around with xv and I think that feh is a better slideshow viewer (a lot of the same pics looked pixel-ated with xv).

I can get DSL loaded with a frugal install, and can use apt-get to load feh no problems after I boot into my frugal install. It runs, it's smooth, it's beautiful! What I can't make happen is saving feh so when I boot back up my frugal install it is still installed. I have modified my filetool.lst every which way I can think of and can't get feh to stay, to include backing up the entire ramdisk directory (which incidentally hung the system on reboot, but I fixed that

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I have read the boards, and the documentation, and googled, and I can't get it to work. So I'm finally here asking for help.

The current build I'm using is 1.1 I haven't tried any of this with a newer or older build.

Thanks in advance.

mikshaw

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Posted: July 09 2005,03:12

A deb package is not likely to be installed into /ramdisk, so backing that up won't help. Deb (and just about any other package) installs into /usr, which requires the system to be writeable beyond its default state.
One thing you can do is save the deb package and dsl-dpkg.dsl somewhere on a local drive, set the dpkg.dsl to load automatically, and put this in /opt/bootlocal.sh:

mount <partition containing the deb file>
dpkg -i /path/to/feh.deb

Another option is to create a mydsl extension out of the deb package.

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cbagger01

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Posted: July 09 2005,11:13

Yes, try creating your own myDSL extension by using the deb2dsl script.

Search the forums for keyword

deb2dsl

and search ALL FORUMS and FROM THE BEGINNING or NEWER

sativen

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Posted: July 09 2005,16:34

Well, I was able to get it.

I was looking for something else last night and found deb2dsl.
So, I converted feh (and libraries required) and unclutter to dsl, put the newly made .dsl files in the partition specified during my frugal install.

I mounted my usb drive by adding the following line to my bootlocal.sh file:

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mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 &

I then modified my .xinitrc file to read /home/dsl/enhanceDSL
like newOlduser was talking about here.

I added the following lines to my newly created enhanceDSL file:

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unless ($vars =~/unclutter/) {
system("unclutter &>/dev/null &")
}
unless ($vars =~/feh/) {
system("sudo feh -zZFr -D 120 /mnt/sda1/pics/ &>/dev/null &")
}

For some reason when I mounted my usb drive in my bootlocal.sh file it wasn't giving me the permissions I needed, so that's why I am executing the feh command as root in my enhanceDSL file.

I tried to modify the .xinitrc file to execute the commands that I am passing in the enhanceDSL file, but maybe I'm not getting the correct syntax for them to work.

I am pulling the pictures off my usb thumb drive, and I assume nothing is getting written back to the thumbdrive, because I don't want to kill it quickly by writing too often to it, since it's a flash drive.

Do you guys have any suggestions for making this more efficient? Shouldn't I be able to modify the bootlocal.sh file to run feh and unclutter from there? If I could do that I could get rid of the enhanceDSL steps.

Thanks for the help. I've learned a lot about DSL through doing this. One of these days I will kick the Windows habit and switch to linux for good.

sativen

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Posted: July 09 2005,17:39

Alright,
I played around a little more, and I think I was trying to put the commands inside the if/then loop inside the .xinitrc file

I added the unclutter and feh commands at the top of the .xinitrc file instead of at the end.

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