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What is the best way to have Eye of Gnome Graphics viewer (EOG) open a folder full of images in a randomized slide-show from the terminal?

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Is this for personal use or for a program you are making? If the former, then you can just call eog /path/to/folder and press Ctrl+M so as to have a random image displayed... – hakermania Aug 21 '12 at 23:51
I was hoping to build a shell script. – southpointingchariot Aug 22 '12 at 1:16

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sudo apt-get install eog-plugins -y

then start eye of gnome, (terminal or not, doesn't matter for now), click
edit / preferences / plugins
Scroll down and check the "slideshow shuffle" box. Close the program.

Then, via terminal you can:

eog /path/to/pictures -s

Where the " -s" switch triggers the slideshow and eog remembers the shuffle plugin.

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greatest thanks! – southpointingchariot Aug 22 '12 at 1:15

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