<div>On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Kevin Kuphal <<a href="mailto:kkuphal@gmail.com">kkuphal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:16 AM, J <<a href="mailto:jsweepstakes@gmail.com">jsweepstakes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM, J <<a href="mailto:jsweepstakes@gmail.com">jsweepstakes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> >> Hello, I'm having some problems getting this configured, I want a way<br>
>> >> to<br>>> >> have two frontends on one machine, one frontend to be used as normal,<br>>> >> the<br>>> >> other to play the pictures only (preferably with auto starting in this<br>
>> >> mode<br>>> >> to be a digital picture frame....) any ideas on how I can get this<br>>> >> done? I<br>>> >> am no good at configuring the xorg stuff<br>>> >><br>
>><br>>> >Would it work for you to just have an xscreensaver that showed pictures<br>>> > when<br>>> >the frontend was idle? Then when you went to watch TV it would just turn<br>>> >off? I think GLSlideShow is one that does this.<br>
>><br>>> I thought so, but the configuration that I want I don't want the TV on all<br>>> the time but to get a few monitors and somehow wireless (if not just with<br>>> wires) hook them to all have the second x session on them so that they are<br>
>> independent of the TV<br>><br>><br>> Seems like it would be easier just to buy a digital photo frame rather than<br>> whatever investment in time/money to rig that together...<br><br>>Depending on the desired size of the digital photo frame, a used<br>
>laptop may not cost much more, and is a lot more versatile. Over<br>>simplified: just launch vncserver -geometry <screen resolution> on the<br>>linux side and connect to it with one of the myrid of vnc clients. Or<br>
>use a mythbuntu live-cd on the laptop to connect directly as a<br>>front-end.</div>
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<div>Its not a bad idea.... but what about power? I've already got a machiene that will be on always, so why not just piggy back off it...... theres got to be a way to have to xservers running so that its can be done........ I reamber a few months ago a guy talking about having multiple frontends on one machiene but I never heard how it came out..... if somebody could just help me get off the ground with the beginning (setting up two sessons, one on each screen [I tried searching the internet]) then I can get the rest on my own....</div>
<div>(thanks for all the responces so far!!!)</div>
<div>-J</div>