slide/README.md

slide

Simple slideshow showing random images from specified directory. Screen background is filled with a scaled version of the image to prevent pure black background.

Usage

slide [-t rotation_seconds] [-o background_opacity(0..255)] [-b blur_radius] -p image_folder

• image_folder: where to search for images (.jpg files), currently non-recursively
• rotation_seconds(default=30): time until next random image is chosen from the given folder
• background_opacity(default=150): opacity of the background filling image between 0 (black background) and 255
• blur_radius(default=20): blur radius of the background filling image

Dependencies

• libexif
• qt5

sudo apt install libexif-dev qtdeclarative5-dev-tools

Build

mkdir -p make
cd make
qmake ../src/slide.pro
make
sudo make install