

Next, double left click on the drive_c folder, and then double left click on the Program Files folder. This allows you to see all folders that begin with a dot. wine folder visible, double left click on your home folder in your file system and under the View menu select “show hidden files”. Open a terminal window and type into it: winecfg Next, you have to configue Wine to accept Windows program files. Then type: add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa -yĮither method installs wine and all the files which it depends upon. Sudo su Then enter your password when prompted. It’s best to use the software manager of your Linux distribution. You can download SoundSlides Plus for Mac or Windows, but you’ll have to use Wine to run it on Linux. This makes slides about half the area of my 14″ screen with a black border all around. Soundslides can be set to display slides at various sizes, even full screen if you’re adept at coding (not covered in this post.) I like to set my shows large. Internet viewers can then view the show in their web browsers by typing in the url of that folder. When a project is finished, Soundslides exports a flash show folder which can then be uploaded by FTP to the public html level of a server. It allows them to quickly put together a short slideshow and perfectly synchronize the timing of each slide to shifts in music or narration by dragging the edges of each slide along the Soundslides timeline. Soundslides has been a favorite software of photojournalists for at least a decade.

An Introduction to SoundSlidesįirst, a brief intro.
#SOUNDSLIDES PLUS HOW TO#
By first installing Wine you can run Soundslides Plus on Linux.This CyberKenBlog post tells how to install SoundSlides Plus using Wine.
