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Show off your photos in all of their glory by running a slideshow! Ubuntu provides several ways to watch slideshows of photos.

Slideshow Software

Using Shotwell Photo Manager

Shotwell Photo Manager has a slideshow feature.

Press Applications -> Graphics -> Shotwell Photo Manager to open Shotwell
Press View -> Slideshow
The slideshow will start

F-Spot Photo Manager has a slideshow feature.

Press Applications -> Graphics -> F-Spot Photo Manager to open F-Spot
Select the photos that you want to appear in the slideshow
- You can select multiple photos by holding down Ctrl and clicking the photos you want to see
Press View -> Slideshow
The slideshow will start
- Press any key or click the mouse to exit the slideshow
- Press the Space key once to skip a photo or press it a few times to show the slideshow menu
- Sometimes, the space key may not work or may cause the slideshow to exit. This seems to be a bug.

The Image Viewer application is capable of displaying slideshows.

Find a folder with some photos in it
- If you would like to watch a slideshow of all of the photos in the folder, just double-click on a single photo to open it
- If you only want to see a slideshow containing a selection of the photos in the folder, select the photos which you want to see, right-click one of them and then select Open with "Image Viewer"
Press View -> Slideshow to start the slideshow
- Press the Escape key to exit the slideshow
- You cannot currently skip photos

Cortina Wallpaper Slideshow watches the folder(s) that you specify for images and rotates them at a set interval.

You can use a slideshow of your photos as you screensaver.

Press System -> Preferences -> Screensaver
Select the F-Spot photos screensaver theme
Photos which are tagged as Favorites in F-Spot Photo Manager will be displayed as your screensaver

If you would like to change which tag is used for the slideshow: