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SBC digital signage application using LibreOffice as presentation manager
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Can't get out of Slideshow #8

Open pctech334 opened 8 years ago

pctech334 commented 8 years ago

I am a noob and was testing this out for my school to display works of students. I followed the instructions but did not copy the presentation to /home/pi/. Now the Pi starts up, Libre Office begins but can't find the file. However, I can't figure out how to exit the slideshow so that I can update the location of the file. HELP!! @jb2cool and @milnepe

jb2cool commented 8 years ago

Is the Pi on a network at all? If so then you should be able to SCP (Copy via SSH) the slideshow to the correct directory. Is this all the Pi is doing? If you've only just built this up and there is no other files/configure on the Pi then it'd be easier to just reimage and start over.

pctech334 commented 8 years ago

It is on a network. However, I don't know how to get out of the presentation and back to the gui to copy the presentation to the correct location. Also, the directory of opt/pi doesn't show. I only saw opt/ and no subfolders showed when I followed the setup directions. On Mar 20, 2016 2:19 PM, "jb2cool" notifications@github.com wrote:

Is the Pi on a network at all? If so then you should be able to SCP (Copy via SSH) the slideshow to the correct directory. Is this all the Pi is doing? If you've only just built this up and there is no other files/configure on the Pi then it'd be easier to just reimagined and start over.

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milnepe commented 8 years ago

If you are using the original script then you need to delete or rename both the .xsession files in /opt/pi & /home/pi - the easiest way to do this is by removing the card and editing it in another Linux computer or by ssh into the pi on the network from another computer. This could be a Linux, Windows or Mac. You can't break in unless you remove both files because the master is always copied from /opt/pi - this is where you put any new sideshows and then just reboot. The new show is then copied to /home/pi on boot-up and runs from there. It's done that way to allow a clean restart of libreoffice if the pi needs to restart for any reason and it has the added advantage that most people can't break in easily to run a slideshow that you don't want them to, if it's left unattended!

pctech334 commented 8 years ago

Thanks @milnepe and @jb2cool . I was able to figure out that during the show I could hit ctrl-shift-F6 or ctrl-shift-F3, that would take me out to the command line. From there I was able to get back into the gui via "sudo startx" after logging in. Once I did that, I was able to navigate to the /opt/pi folder, update the slideshow and restart the signage. Everything works great now. The only issue I have, which is not yours, is that the presentation software doesn't like certain images or videos. That is more a limitation on the B+ not being very robust to handle it than anything else. However, I was able to take a power point I created and convert it to .odp and it worked flawlessly. Thank you for creating this method. This has truly helped me to learn a lot and solve a problem we were having.

milnepe commented 8 years ago

Great to hear you're finding it useful

On 30/03/2016, pctech334 notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks. I was able to figure out that during the show I could hit ctrl-shift-F6 or ctrl-shift-F3, that would take me out to the command line. From there I was able to get back into the gui via "sudo startx" after logging in. Once I did that, I was able to navigate to the /opt/pi folder, update the slideshow and restart the signage. Everything works great now. The only issue I have, which is not yours, is that the presentation software doesn't like certain images or videos. That is more a limitation on the B+ not being very robust to handle it than anything else. However, I was able to take a power point I created and convert it to .odp and it worked flawlessly. Thank you for creating this method. This has truly helped me to learn a lot and solve a problem we were having.

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