Re: image viewer that refreshes?
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:24, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> Benjamin Rutt sez:
> } I have a .jpg image that keeps changing (from a webcam). Is there an
> } image viewer in debian's packages that will display the image and
> } automatically refresh the image when it has changed? I've already
> } tried gqview, xli and display, and qiv. ('display -update 1' doesn't
> } update as advertised).
>
> Let us assume that your image is the free JenniCam, which updates every 20
> minutes, and that you have a cron job or some other process doing the
> downloading:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> WATCHIMG="/tmp/jennicam.jpg"
>
> display -immutable "$WATCHIMG" &
> while true
> do
> sleep 1200
> display -remote "$WATCHIMG"
> done
What, in this case, is a "remote" operation?
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