Upgrade easy, but

[carlof]

Re: Upgrade easy, but

Hi,
I tried this:

running kslideshow.kss from konsole I have had a slideshow winowed with slow transition
then "sudo kslideshow.kss" and everything is ok!
Just a message "Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-carlo" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0."

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Upgrade easy, but

Same results here. The "little square" transition is much faster, and the line-drawing ones as well.

Not sure what the problem is, though.

By the way, never run anything graphical with sudo; use kdesudo.

kdesudo /usr/bin/kslideshow.kss

[phonnic_p]

Re: Upgrade easy, but

For those of you whom wish to remove the transition-effects altogether I found this fix

Edit ~/.kde/share/config/kslideshow.kssrc and add the following in the
[Settings] section:

EffectsEnabled=false

You will still have a picture slideshow with no transitional effects.

For the full issue try going here, >>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283284

I'm still learning and will share as more comes to light, thanks for some of the suggestions.

[Smokomo]

Re: Upgrade easy, but

After testing this,

kdesudo /usr/bin/kslideshow.kss

, I saw that the transition effects are working like they did in 11.04 (which sold me on using Linux), is there any way to make this permanent for Kslideshow? Like phonic had done with turning off the effects.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Upgrade easy, but

You might try this, though I cannot promise it won't do something strange:

1. Disable the screensaver from systemsettings > Display and Monitor > ScreenSaver

2. kdesudo systemsettings

3. Set up the screensaver in Display and Monitor > ScreenSaver, and Apply.

4. Exit systemsettings.

This will run the screensaver as root. Do not set up screen locking, password protection, etc, this way, as there will be no way to get out of it if you do.

[Calgarian]

Re: Upgrade easy, but

I tried setting the slideshow in kdesudo and had really weird results. My sound system was disabled and I couldn't shut down or restart. When I selected "leave" from the right-click menu nothing happened. I went back into kdesudo systemsettings and turned off the slideshow then I had to do a power-off restart. I'm trying the effects=false approach now. I suppose I should find the config file for root level systemsettings and make sure that the slideshow is out of it.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Upgrade easy, but

I suppose I should find the config file for root level systemsettings and make sure that the slideshow is out of it.

/root/.kde/share/config/kscreensaverrc

[zahtar]

Re: Upgrade easy, but

I have the exact same issue. Some types of transition are ok some are really slow.

Those that include blending are very slow. This troubles me because I now use a radeon 5670 and the problem is very intense. Until the summer I used the onboard graphics (nvidia 7050) and I think transitions were better on all, except the one that blends using the small dots. But it was hardly a problem.

I have found this reported as a bug, but with no solution given. As some other users suggested (I think they used fedora) i would be best for the user to choose the types of transition the slide show will have. We could deactivate dots, horizontal lines and a couple more, keeping the fast like the radar etc. I'd really like that!

[phonnic_p]

Re: Upgrade easy, but

Furthermore.....
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RE: Changing Kslideshow image transitions
No, transitions are compiled in. If you are familiar with building your RPMs, install the kdeartwork source rpm, untar the source file, open kdeartwork/kscreensaver/kdesavers/slideshow.cpp, and there you will find the effects listed under kSlideShowSaver::registerEffects().

Edit as desired, recreate the compressed source file, and do an rpm -bb kdeartwork.spec to recreate the binary rpm to reinstall.

Found there >>> http://www.kde-forum.org/artikel/169...ansitions.html

I have downloaded the kdeartwork source rpm ( I think) from here >>> http://pkgs.org/ubuntu-11.10/kubuntu....deb/download/ When I tried to open it I received an error message stating there is an older one in the repositories and for me to use that one.

Could someone please tell me how to find the "active" Transition control file that is eluded to,

kdeartwork/kscreensaver/kdesavers/slideshow.cpp

as it would be gratefully appreciated. If I find it online I'll share, but I'm slow in finding these things.