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New MessageRunning Screen Saver on Audrey (modified 0 times) jbhasin
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A quick question. If I have RandomPic defined as a screen saver (uisng saver) then will it activate if I am runninf PhJuke? The reason I ask is that I have noticed my mp3's seem to skip if I run PhJuke and RandomPic together. Currently I run RandomPic from a shell script so if you touch the screen and kill it, it restarts in 5 minutes UNLESS PhJuke is running. Kind of clumsey so I'd rather use saver.

Anyone has any experiences with this?

Thanks

Jaspal

05-21-2002 13:59:32

New MessageRE:Running Screen Saver on Audrey (modified 1 times) booya
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I have had similar experiences with saver and phjuke. I have resolved all of the issues with some scripts and priority tweaking. I think the key was getting WebSaver to run at priority 1. I do not use RandomPic but rather use WebSaver, which loads a slideshow webpage that I created. I had the same sound skips when pictures changed while playing phjuke. What I have done is created this as my WebSaver.sh that is launched by saver.

# cat WebSaver.sh
#!/bin/sh
slay saver
sleep 4;slay -P 1 WebSaver &
/nto/photon/bin/WebSaver
/nto/photon/bin/saver

First line slay's saver, which will stop saver from trying to relaunch WebSaver every 3 minutes. It also removes the need for FireKey(this my be fixed in the latest PicSaver.. it might be a good idea to try that app instead since I think it may be better).

The next line is funky but it worked for me.. there is probably a better way to do it. What it does is wait 4 seconds (enough time for the next line to run WebSaver) then sets the priorty of WebSaver to 1.

Start WebSaver. There is no "&" so the script remians running.. waiting for the WebSaver app to exit before continuing.

Last line restarts saver after WebSaver is stopped.


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05-21-2002 15:12:18

New MessageRE:Running Screen Saver on Audrey (modified 0 times) davinci27
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You might also try using nice to launch WebSaver at a lower Priority.

davinci27

05-22-2002 06:57:15

New MessageRE:Running Screen Saver on Audrey (modified 0 times) booya
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Is it just me or does nice operate strange... I started to use it but I couldn't just set a priority for the application I was running. I had to tell it how much to lower the priority of the app. It just seemed strange to me. So if an app was launched at priority 15 you need to tell it to lower the priority 14 so it would be 1. How do I know what priority an application is initally going to be launched at?
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05-22-2002 10:10:21

New MessageRE:Running Screen Saver on Audrey (modified 0 times) jbhasin
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I'm trying to get RandomPic to work with saver on my Audrey. Can't seem to get it going. When I try and run savercfg I get a Memory Fault error (this may or may not be related to why saver is not running). Any ideas what could be wrong. Also where can I download a good copy of saver and savercfg?

Thanks

06-14-2002 14:10:05

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