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    How to put Photos Slideshow on Screensaver.

    One of my close friend likes to see Photos Slideshow on Screensaver and therefore uses old versions of Ubuntu. I have big collection of photos on my Laptop and thought why not try it on the brand new Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish and also my current os Ubuntu 20.04. Ok here it goes:
    Code:
    $ sudo apt install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra
    
    $ sudo apt remove gnome-screensaver
    Add xscreensaver to Startup Applications by putting xscreensaver -nosplash in the command


    Open Screensaver Preferences choose only one screensaver on Mode and tick on GLSlidesshow


    On Advanced Tab tick on Grab Desktop images, Choose Random Image, click on Browse button and select the Folder containing the photos


    and it works on reboot.
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    Re: How to put Photos Slideshow on Screensaver.

    Yes, it still works very well in spite of being a gtk2 application.

    I use it, and have done so for many years, with all the thousands of photos from holidays showing completely randomly for about 20s each, and also very slowly panning and zooming just to add interest.
    I have looked for more up to date screensavers, perhaps using gtk3, but have not yet found anything quite so configurable as xscreensaver.

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    Re: How to put Photos Slideshow on Screensaver.

    Quote Originally Posted by ajgreeny View Post
    Yes, it still works very well in spite of being a gtk2 application...
    For those on Xubuntu 22.04 there is xfce4-screensaver installed already with the screenshow screensaver available by default, not sure if it is gtk2 or gtk3 though. Edit: just found it depends on libgtk-3-0 so it seems to be gtk3.

    There were only about 5 or 6 shows installed initially so I tried kagashe's command omitting the xscreensaver package, just the gl and data packs and they work well. See screenshot attached, the picture is in my home folder; the settings can be adjusted for accessing any folder.
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    Last edited by yetimon_64; April 29th, 2022 at 05:47 PM. Reason: gtk3 noted

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    Re: How to put Photos Slideshow on Screensaver.

    I'm aware that the xfce4-screensaver can use sideshows but it will not have all the interesting extras that xscreensaver does such as the panning and zooming of the images, or i couldn't find them so for now will stick with xscreensaver.

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    Re: How to put Photos Slideshow on Screensaver.

    Quote Originally Posted by ajgreeny View Post
    I'm aware that the xfce4-screensaver can use sideshows but it will not have all the interesting extras that xscreensaver does such as the panning and zooming of the images, or i couldn't find them so for now will stick with xscreensaver.
    Ah, I understand now. Just double checked here, you are right about that. Those settings aren't available on xfce4-screensaver.
    Regards, yeti.

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    Re: How to put Photos Slideshow on Screensaver.

    Quote Originally Posted by yetimon_64 View Post
    For those on Xubuntu 22.04 there is xfce4-screensaver installed already with the screenshow screensaver available by default, not sure if it is gtk2 or gtk3 though. Edit: just found it depends on libgtk-3-0 so it seems to be gtk3.

    There were only about 5 or 6 shows installed initially so I tried kagashe's command omitting the xscreensaver package, just the gl and data packs and they work well. See screenshot attached, the picture is in my home folder; the settings can be adjusted for accessing any folder.
    I know it is available on Xfce Desktop since I have Manjaro Xfce on one partition.

    My post is for Ubuntu users who are missing the Slideshow on Screensaver since Ubuntu adopted gnome desktop and regards to my friend who told me that he uses old Ubuntu version just for this feature and I told him I could do this on Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish by removing gnome-screensaver and installing xscreensaver through the above commands.

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