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sukotto
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Location: New York, USA
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 Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject: [fixed] Webcollage just displays a test pattern |
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I emerged xscreensaver and really enjoy the eyecandy (even though I don't have openGL  ). Unfortunately, I can't seem to get webcollage working correctly.
I'm using the simple but all I ever get is the default test pattern (which seems to come with xscreensaver since I've seen it used in a couple of the other screen savers).
When I run it at the command line (either as root or as my usual login) with verbose set | Code: | | /usr/lib/xscreensaver/webcollage -root -v |
the same thing happens. I get urls printed to stderr, but again all I see is the test pattern.
Very strange. Any advice on how to figure out what's wrong 
I'm running fluxbox on a P2 400 with an onboard s3 Trio 3D video chip. Other display apps seem to work ok (like xplanet) so I don't think this is a hardware problem. emerge -up xscreensaver comes back negative so I don't need to upgrade.
BTW, the output says I don't have webcollage-helper installed but I see it in /usr/lib/xscreensaver/ . However, according to man webcollage I don't really *need* it.
A sample output when I run webcollage -root -vv
| Code: | webcollage: 15:45:15: init: no webcollage-helper program
webcollage: 15:45:16: altavista: URL: http://www.altavista.com/image/randomlink
webcollage: 15:45:16: altavista: redirected to: http://www.eaglewing.org.uk/gallery/photographs/cornwall/eden2000-06.html
webcollage: 15:45:16: altavista: picked image 2/4: http://www.eaglewing.org.uk/gallery/photographs/cornwall/images/eden2000-06.jpg
webcollage: 15:45:22: altavista: URL: http://www.altavista.com/image/randomlink
webcollage: 15:45:23: altavista: redirected to: http://www.muglestonspitbullfarm.com/females/covergirl.html
webcollage: 15:45:23: altavista: picked image 14/90: http://www.muglestonspitbullfarm.com/images/5_cc1327_02_sm.jpg
webcollage: 15:45:28: altavista: URL: http://www.altavista.com/image/randomlink
webcollage: 15:45:33: altavista: redirected to: http://www.fugu-sg.org/~elia/christmasweb/pages/A1_Ann%20loves%20Italian.htm
webcollage: 15:45:33: altavista: picked image 2/2: http://www.fugu-sg.org/~elia/christmasweb/images/A1_Ann%20loves%20Italian.jpg
webcollage: 15:45:40: altavista: URL: http://www.altavista.com/image/randomlink
webcollage: 15:45:41: altavista: redirected to: http://www.themontaguefamily.com/thomas_james_montague_.htm
webcollage: 15:45:41: altavista: picked image 1/7: http://www.themontaguefamily.com/Thomas_Montagues_Brother.JPG
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Rcomian
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Location: Uk, Northwest
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Webcollage started working for me as if by magic when I chose a random image folder in the advanced tab of xscreensaver. No idea why that is, unless webcollage uses it as a temporary storage space.
I got webcollage to recognise the helper file by adding /usr/lib/xscreensaver to my path.
This is done in /etc/profile
I guess you could also simlink the helper proggy into /usr/bin |
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sukotto
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Location: New York, USA
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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I should have closed this a while ago since it's working now.
I pointed to an images directory in the xscreensaver advanced tab and have webcollage working with this config: | Code: | | webcollage -root -delay 15 |
I get way too many porn images though so I can't use it at work. Even if I create my own dictonary file with 5 or 6 technology words (IBM, cpu, monitor, linux, etc)
I also tried it with | Code: | | -filter "vidwacker" |
and that seemed to distort things enough that I probably would be ok. I just hope the admins don't run driftnet.
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