On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 12:45:27PM +0000, James Freer wrote:
Hi Chris
So on to my final idea, use a laptop with the TV as a remote display. The viewing software runs on the laptop and the person running it can use the laptop keyboard and touchpad/mouse to control things. The only issue is handling the dual display, has anyone got any advice on this front, e.g. ways to have different views on two different displays, etc.
Maybe I have misunderstood you.
No, I think you've understood about right.
For viewing photos I much prefer the simple eog (eye of gnome... and the excellent plugin which allows resizing and batch rename) - shotwell and others create their own album which I don't like. As you mentioned one can just view pics in monthly order - or copy a compilation to a directory for a slide show.
It's almost what I need, a simple "show me the pictures and don't do anything else" app. It isn't installed by default on xubuntu, it may well become my default image view though as it's very straightforward.
However it has one fundamental (for me) disadvantage, once you've navigated to a directory with pictures in you can only see those pictures. There's no way to go 'up and along' to the next day in a month, or to the next month or year.
I want some way of navigating the hierarchy of folders.
On dual display I am not so sure what you are asking - as a teacher I had a laptop with two video ports so did exactly what you're after just plugging in the electronic whiteboard. I thought all laptops had the two - what I want to do is to have dual display from a desktop. I've got a pci video card with a vga, DVI-HDMI and HDTV port. If you haven't a HDTV port then is that not the problem. Not so sure on hardware but I am interested in what the solution is.
My laptop has a VGA port and that drives the TV OK and I get a small 'window' on the laptop display when I leave that on as well. This actually works quite well in practice.