[ale] Kiosk slideshow with reload

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

> I've tried feh and qiv which both manage to display in a loop but they
> fail to pick up on a new file if it shows up in the directory.  A couple
> places mentioned gthumb but that seems to involve bringing the full
> weight of GNOME which might just overload something (I could go up to a
> NUC-sized machine but I don't want to pay for massive horsepower if I
> don't need it).

For a slideshow you can use a $25 r-pi.
I've created this with photos using javascript and a webpage. Probably not what
you want and the page has to be hand-made. I tried about 5 different solutions
first.

geeqie can to slideshows and repeat.

> At the same time, anyone know how to specify to linux and X11 that a
> large HDMI screen is bolted to the wall sideways (rotated 90 degrees)?

http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/rendition5.html