Photo Screen Saver

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Photo Screen Saver is an OpenGL application that will slide different images which are get from www.flickr.com site. They are downloaded by the script /usr/pluto/bin/flickr.pl The params of that script are: minwidth, minheight, and which number of previous days should be searched.

The all files are downloaded by at the folder /home/flickr/[year]/[mount]/[day]

After the script saves some files the PhotoScreenSaver (PSS) is started.

PSS is a child device of Orbiter which means that will get different parameters from the admin page and will be started/stoped by Orbiter itself.

What is the normal flow of PSS?

1. Initialization

2. Animation thread

3. Finalization

You can disable the download of photos if you chmod 000 the /usr/pluto/bin/flickr.pl

You can also remove or add your own pictures to /home/flickr

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