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hi everyone, i'm crop of questions.

i'm working on gif display (random gifs in slideshow on 3.5'' lcd), , i've got working solution think quite ugly , i'm thinking it's because i'm confused along way. here's setup clarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bcycc7hkfu. small lcd monitor right next desktop ssh in windows remote desktop connection basic tasks. right now, device: boots midori in fullscreen mode website i've set up. then, cron job executes bash script every 5 minutes kills midori processes , restarts x via startx, indirectly restarts midori (homepage set website), slideshow continues.

reason have kill midori blank out after unpredictable amount of time showing slideshow. i'm still not sure why, haven't had time midori log file (one exists, right?). have call startx , not midori -e -fullscreen -http://website.blah because midori seemingly doesn't launch when replace startx midori in crontab (black screen), , when launch midori ssh session of course opens window within session. startx ssh, however, restart session on lcd display. that's convenient because can call bash script ssh if midori on lcd ever blanks out before next 5 minute cron job executes (which happens, random).

please let me know if setup needs further explained - find confusing , poor solution, @ least works. misunderstanding running screen , ssh session/linux? it'd nice able remotely type commands executed if run locally on pi - vnc need that? tried tightvnc appeared if sshing in, midori opened in window within session again.

input!

have disabled screen blanking?

disable text terminals blanking:
change 2 settings in /etc/kbd/config
blank_time=0
powerdown_time=0


disable xsession blanking:
add these lines /etc/xdg/lxsession/lxde/autostart
@xset s noblank
@xset s off
@xset -dpms

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