[juneau-lug] Opening X apps in the background.

OK - remember my resizing script was inspired as a way to help me save time 
putting images up on our (my family's, not the lug's) website.  As a follow on, 
I wrote a bash script to generate slideshow pages quickly & easily.

The process goes like this - get the digital images, resize them and name them 
so they sort appropriately - image01.jpg, image02.jpg, etc., and then place 
them in pwd/Resources, where pwd is a scratch directory.  Run the following, 
and slideshow type pages are quickly generated.

The script is below, and you can see some output by going to http://zuelow.net 
- cringe at the "last updated" date on it, and then click on Phoenie's page and 
see the photos of her birthday.  These are not Pulitzer prize winning photos, 
they're intended for Grandparents and other relatives, all of which are between 
one and three thousand miles away.  But I digress...

Anyway, here's my problem.  As the script runs, it opens xslideshow to view the 
image and then reads a string in for the photo caption in the web page.  But 
when it does this, xslideshow gets the focus and I have to click on the 
terminal window to enter the comment.  I don't want to click, I just want to 
type, press enter, and see the next photo.

Any clues as to how I can get xslideshow to open without taking the focus away 
from my terminal window?

Cheers,

James

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Script Below - watch out for wrapped lines.
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#!/bin/bash
##########################################################
# pagegen.sh
# HTML slideshow page generator with zuelow.net colorscheme
# Depends on images already scanned & resized, with images
# in jpeg format ,named to sort into a series and alone in the 
# Resources dir.
#
# Move HTML & jpegs manually to site directory after creation & testing..
#
# James Zuelow // Juneau Linux Users Group
# $Log: pagegen.sh,v $
# Revision 1.1  2004/07/29 02:47:39  james
# Initial revision
#
#
##########################################################
i=0

echo -n "Enter series (filename) title: "
read PGtitle
echo -n "Enter descriptive (human) title: "
read PGhtitle
echo "Select the pageup target:"
select pageup in phoenpg.html calvinpg.html photopg.html
do
PGup=$pageup
break
done
h=`find ./Resources -name "*.jpg" | wc -l`
for PGimage in `find ./ -name "*.jpg" | cut -c 3-`
do
(( i = i + 1 ))
(( j = i - 1 ))
(( k = i + 1 ))
(( l = h - i ))
if [ $i -gt 1 ] 
then
        PvPG="<A HREF=\"${PGtitle}${j}.html\">Previous Photo</A> "
else
        PvPG=""
fi
if [ $i -lt $h ]
then
        NxPG=" <A HREF=\"${PGtitle}${k}.html\">Next Photo</A>"
        RePG="<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" CONTENT=\"30; 
url=${PGtitle}${k}.html\">" 
else
        NxPG=""
        RePG=""
fi
echo "<HTML>" > ${PGtitle}${i}.html
echo "<HEAD>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
echo "<META NAME=\"GENERATOR\" CONTENT=\"Bash 2.05b scripting by James Zuelow, 
Juneau Linux Users Group\">" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
echo "<TITLE>${PGhtitle} No.${i}</TITLE>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
echo $RePG >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
echo "</HEAD>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
echo "<BODY TEXT=\"#ffffcc\" BGCOLOR=\"#000000\" LINK=\"#ffcc66\" 
ALINK=\"#ff9900\" VLINK=\"#cc9933\">" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html

echo "<P><CENTER>${PvPG}<A HREF=\"${PGup}\">Photo Page</A>${NxPG}</CENTER></P>" 
>> ${PGtitle}${i}.html


echo "<P><CENTER><IMG SRC=\"${PGimage}\" ALT=\"${PGhtitle} No.${i}\" 
ALIGN=\"BOTTOM\" BORDER=\"0\" NATURALSIZEFLAG=\"3\"></CENTER></P>" >> 
${PGtitle}${i}.html

xslideshow ${PGimage} &
echo -n "Enter image description: "
read PGimageDESC
killall xslideshow

echo "<P><CENTER><FONT COLOR=\"#ffffe1\">${PGimageDESC}</FONT></CENTER>" >> 
${PGtitle}${i}.html

echo "</BODY>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
echo "</HTML>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
done      
exit 0

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