Last year, I wrote about how to achieve [Gnome Slideshow Screensaver Sanity](http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=106). I’ve recently upgraded to Fedora 11, and I noticed that GLSlideshow isn’t installed by default (maybe it never was), and I wondered if I could alter the settings for gnome slideshow. By default, it uses pictures out of the $HOME\/Pictures folder, and there’s no way in the user interface to change that location, which can be frustrating. Here’s how I worked around it. Note the use of the `–location` option, and that I changed my `Name=` setting.<\/p>\n
– `cp \/usr\/share\/applications\/screensavers\/personal-slideshow.desktop ~\/.local\/share\/applications\/my-slideshow.desktop`
\n– `gedit ~\/.local\/share\/applications\/my-slideshow.desktop`<\/p>\n
Go into the screensaver preferences (System -> Preferences -> Screensaver), and select “Custom Photos”. There’s no way to customize the duration to display each photo, but at least I don’t have to settle for Gnome’s default location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last year, I wrote about how to achieve [Gnome Slideshow Screensaver Sanity](http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=106). I’ve recently upgraded to Fedora 11, and I noticed that GLSlideshow isn’t installed by default (maybe it never was), and I wondered if I could alter the settings for gnome slideshow. By default, it uses pictures out of the $HOME\/Pictures folder, and there’s … <\/p>\n
\n [Desktop Entry]
\n Encoding=UTF-8
\n Name=Custom Photos
\n Exec=\/usr\/libexec\/gnome-screensaver\/slideshow --location=\/home\/images\/Photos
\n TryExec=\/usr\/libexec\/gnome-screensaver\/slideshow
\n StartupNotify=false
\n Terminal=false
\n Type=Application
\n Categories=GNOME;Screensaver;
\n OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
\n<\/code><\/p>\n