gPhotoShow Products Support Forum

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since you wrote in the Wallpaper Slideshow LT section I assume you are using this program. Anyway Wallpaper Slideshow doesn't allow you to specify the starting image, as a general setting I don't think it would be useful. Every time you change setting you should specify a different starting ...

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you must select one or more items in images list then change background color. Click on OK to save settings. Now when you change wallpaper and one of those pictures is chosen the new background color will be used.

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gPhotoShow Free and Pro work fine on Windows 11.
If you only get a black screen it means there is no picture to display. Check gPhotoShow settings and make sure the configured directories are correct and contain images to display

Do you have any other program that updates the desktop ? If you are 100% sure there are no programs updating the windows background then there is something with windows or the display adapter drivers that causes the flickering.
Wallpaper Slideshow is wallpaper changer, it doesn't update the desktop ...

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it's a known issue with Windows 11 24H2. Install Wallpaper Slideshow Pro v5.2.5, it will fix the issue.

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gPhotoShow is not aware of chromecast or any other system to send the screen to a remote device. It works on the local screen using the OpenGL (GL version) or DirectX 9 (DX version)
Since version 9 was released there have been no changes to the rendering code so it is very unlikely that ...

paul1965 wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:00 pm Will this be addressed in V10 along with the filtering enhancements, and do you have a target release date?

Yes, version 10 will detect hidden taskbar and it will work better
There is no planned date for the new release anyway I think it could be released within 2 months

gPhotoShow Pro 10 will allow you to specify the monitor number for each directory. This will avoid performance problems when using filters with many files

If I click anywhere in the GPS window, I get the blurred screen with a progress spinner, then Windows will eventually display the typical message that the app isn't responding.


It doesn't necessarily mean it's hanged, while deleting unnecessary images gPhotoShow doesn't respond to windows ...

Are you sure it hangs ? I don't think that option causes gPhotoShow to hang, it just limits the list rebuild to only one monitor. It's a well tested feature.
Maybe the problem is that when it restarts the slideshow it has to delete all the unnecessary images and this can take a while.