Re: feh won't make a montage in a script

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

David Liontooth wrote:

> 
> I'm using feh, an image viewing utility, to make a montage of thumbnails,
> with this command in a bash script:
> 
>         feh -m -W 1024 $FIL.img/$THUMBS/*.jpg -O $FIL.jpg
> 
> The man page explains,
> 
>        -O FILE
> 
> "Just save the created montage to FILE without displaying it (use in
> scripts)."
> 
> When I run the script, I get this:
> 
>         feh ERROR: Can't open X display. It *is* running, yeah?
> 
> X is running, but so what? I'd like to run the script when it's not. If I
> run the script from the command line, it works.
> 
> This could just be a bug, cf.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373209
> 
> Dave

I meant to say, "When I run the script in a crontab", I get the error -- not
when I run it from a KDE console.

I added to the bug report in Debian and filed a bug upstream at
http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/ticket/29 

I also found a workaround -- montage from imagemagick works from cron too:

montage -tile 15 -geometry +1,+1 $FIL.img/$THUMBS/*.jpg $FIL.jpg

Cheers,
Dave