Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2006 10:01 schrieb Simon West: > [...] > > Having said that, vnc into the GnomeMeeting system would allow us to change > the picture using the GnomeMeeting interface... but a better way might be > if we could write something simple to swap the picture for next, previous, > specific number etc, and then "tickle" GnomeMeeting to get it to re-read > the replacement picture. The swap function I would imagine is simply having > a set of images numbered sequentially, any one of which is copied to the > GnomeMeeting "show this" picture. Even I could write that as a simple > script if someone knows how to tell a running instance of GM to re-read > it's transmitted image (or swap to another image) This is easy: gconftool-2 --type string -s "/apps/gnomemeeting/devices/video/image" <image> The image is automatically scaled down, preserving the aspect ratio, or padded with black border. To programatically generate images, you may want to have a look at ImageMagick, http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/text/ has some really nice examples. Greetings, Lurchi -- Stefan Brüns / Kastanienweg 6 - Zimmer 1206 / 52074 Aachen mailto:lurch gmx li http://www.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de/~lurchi/ phone: +49 241 169-4206 mobile: +49 160 3797725
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