I'm trying to setup a very slimmed down console only Debian system to act as a simple slideshow photo display. I know that it is possible to show graphics (I guess using the framebuffer) in the console without running X11 but I haven't been able to track down anything that I could use to display images.
Has anyone actually ever made a console based picture screensaver? Or is there at least some package out there that would get me part of the way there?
I know that there are options for Gnome, KDE, etc… but it would be great if I could keep this build as simple as possible.
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Turns out that I found the answer. Debian has a package called fbi that draws an image to the framebuffer from the console (the real one, not the terminal emulator in X11). Even can do slideshows :)