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Display images using fbi on startup using systemd

I can successfully display images using the following command: sudo fbi -T 1 /home/pi/photo-screen/photos/*.jpg -t 4 I now want to start a slide show of those pictures as soon as the Raspberry PI ...
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What is the definitive (and simplest) way to use fbi on Raspberry OS Buster to display images automatically on startup?

I have made all sorts of modifications to my ACLs and even created a photos.service that starts fbi, but it only starts, and displays 1 image before the screen goes blank. I have other processes (web ...
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How can I get the number bytes to write per row for FrameBuffer?

Goal: I'm writing a very simple image viewer for framebuffer /dev/fb0 (something like fbi). Current state: My software takes the pixel resolution from /sys/class/graphics/fb0/virtual_size (such as ...
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Can't clear /dev/fb0

I have one of those 7" HDMI diplays from eBay, driving it with a Q1900 board running Ubuntu 20. I can write to the display using fbi: sudo fbi -a -T 1 --noverbose -d /dev/fb0 -t 5 --blend 1000 &...
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How to send commands to fbi over SSH?

I'm using fbi to display some images. fbi has some keyboard controls, like +, -, Page Up, Page Down, etc. to control the images. Instead of using keyboard, I want to send these control commands over ...
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