what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

[Micha Feigin]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800
Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, I wanted to let everyone know the follow-up to this conversation, 
> as it was an interesting exercise with a valuable lesson.
> 
> Big Plus:
> I ended up using kuickshow, as it was the only program I could find that 
> would scale (for display only) every image during a show to the maximum 
> screen size, without having to know that screen size in advance. This 
> was important because I didn't know the projector resolution beforehand.
> 
> I actually had two kuickshows running on different virtual windows: one 
> was cycling through an assortment of slides, while the second I would 
> advance manually to correspond to my talk. I jumped between the two by 
> jumping between the virtual windows.
> 
> Big Minus:
> Big disadvantage of kuickshow: I couldn't see an option to cycle through 
> slides randomly. I may look into filing a feature request.
> 
> Big Lesson:
> Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to 
> display from my laptop. It took a combination of the screen resolution 
> applet, the Thinkpad Fn buttons, and rebooting, and truthfully, I'm not 
> sure exactly what did it. We finally got it to work mirroring my laptop 
> screen, so I didn't have any secrets - whatever I typed was in front of 
> the audience. This actually was amusing because I opened a terminal to 
> invoke kuickshow. Later someone from the audience came up and said "Wow, 
> you do robots, fire, and command line. Really cool." (The talk was about 
> machine art.)
> 

What thinkpad  and what graphics card?

> I have to figure out how to enable an external monitor reliably before I 
> talk in public again (which will be in Israel next month).
> 
> Thanks everyone for your input - as always you are a very helpful and 
> informative group, and I learned from all of your replies, not just the 
> one I ended up using. For instance, I had no idea that ImageMagick had 
> so many features.
> 
> Shalom,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> > Oron Peled <oron at actcom.co.il> writes:
> > 
> >>> at the very least, i want to point it at a directory of images, and 
> >>> cycle through them, pausing for a couple of seconds on each picture.
> >> If it's only images (no text slides), than you can simply point
> >> digikam at the directory and press the slide show button.
> > 
> > Another option (images only, your computer, KDE app) is kuickshow.
> > 
> > If you don't know which computer you will be using, and/or it is a
> > general presentation (not just images), go with PDF. On Linux I
> > actually prefer kpdf to display slides, but acroread may be more
> > common and more familiar.
> > 
> 
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