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Originally Posted by cyclops0000
thanks
and on a sightly related note, is there anyway to randomize screensavers on the simple screensaver hack? for example, each rime i wake my kindle, it picks a different screensaver, without picking ones i already saw.
and if not that, a way to have it shuffle/rearrange my screensavers on reboot or when a script is run (from gui launcher)
if i knew how to code i would attempt to make my own script or whatever it is i need, but alas, i am only a teenager with meager knowledge of c++ and js or whatever language it is i need to know...
well anyway, not sure if that should be a new topic... but whatever
thanks
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As I recall, shuffling screensavers requires renaming them to change their prefixed number. That could be done from a script that is called from a symlink in the /etc/upstart folder. Scripts called in the gui menu could also be patched to call your "screensaver shuffle" script. To randomize the shuffle, you can read a random byte from /dev/urandom. You can examine other scripts to learn how to write them. A fun place to learn to write scripts is by modifying scripts posted in the "eink algorithmic art shell scripting" thread (find it in the "native mode" index).