Raspberry Pi Journal #45

SlideShow Update

Given such trouble in working with refreshing the screen saver, there is an easy way to do slide show:

gpicview

This lightweight program does automatic slide show for all images in a directory. It is configurable. It can show picture on the whole screen, so it doesn't show title bar or icons.

You know. I just spend some money to buy a dedicated digital picture frame, and all it does is show Animal Crossing pictures from my Nintendo 3DS. Well, that and a few other things that's from the device. But with this program, I can show just about anything and on big screen TV, too.

Will it survive screensaver shutdown? Nope. You still need the screen refresher from last time.

Nintendo Journal #14

Digital Picture Frame

On one of my trip to Thrift store, I found this picture frame for cheap. Just a small one. I was hoping to be able to score the display for Raspberry Pi use. No such luck. The whole thing was integrated very well. I couldn't tell what kind of display that is, and the interface. In the end, it is a good digital picture frame. So, I use it as such.

Unfortunately, I don't have a good picture album to display. In the end, I simply download Nintendo 3DS data to a flash card, and stick it into the device. It shows mostly Animal Crossing New Leaf. This here is when I was visiting Morpheel's town. Monocot is the name of the town, but it was only once, a long time ago, and heavy thunderstorm. I remember the storm and Gulliver sleeping on the beach.

Raspberry Pi Journal #18

Installing MTPAINT

After my disastrous experience with GIMP, I tried a different tack. I downloaded mtpaint.

sudo apt-get install mtpaint

And it installed no problem. I see mtPaint under Graphics menu. So I set out to use it. It's pretty simple to use.

Oh, look! Colors! I can do coloring with this program! Okay, so maybe that's not a big deal, but I was having trouble with GIMP, remember?

And adding text is not a problem either. Looks like I mastered this program already, and it's not even 15 minutes. That's my kind of program!

Now that I've done experimenting, let's see if we can do something nice. Let's put a picture on an AbiWord document. Create new picture.

Do a quick classical masterpiece. Add some text. Put colors in. All in all, a great and wonderful new art work. Done in less than 5 minutes! What a deal!

There it is in AbiWord. Looks like adding a picture is not a problem at all. There's only one thing to do now, and that is print it out.

Ta-da! That's how I want it done. Too bad my laser printer isn't color, but I don't expect miracles. There's always crayon if I want color, right?

Adding picture to word processor: Done!