Ticket #3 (new enhancement)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

runtime directory rescanning

Reported by: giblet Assigned to: giblet
Priority: normal Milestone: feh 1.3.4
Component: misc Version: 1.3.4
Severity: normal Keywords: file directory rescan frame
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Description

Feature request from Quinten Uijldert:

I'm using feh on a disassembled laptop which sits in a picture frame to display the family photos, and it works fantastic. There is however something which I haven't been able to get working, which is a playlist reload/directory rescan function. What I mean with that is that because the laptop does not offer any local access (keyboard/mouse are both hidden/disabled), I have installed samba and enabled ssh access so I can remotely drop files into the picture directory from another location and restart the laptop using ssh. As the laptop boots up it starts the slideshow using the picture directory and will endlessly loop through the available pictures. When I however drop some new pictures in the directory, these are not being displayed until the next reboot/restart of feh/laptop. So what I am wondering is if you could add some sort of mechanism to either rescan the directory at a periodic interval, or add some signal processing so you can send a SIGHUP to it to restart it without actually quitting.

Change History

07/22/05 19:39:26 changed by giblet

  • milestone deleted.

10/25/05 20:19:21 changed by conigs

I am building a linux photoframe using a similar setup and would love to see feh either recognize changes to the directory while it's running or periodically scan that directory.