Less than 1GB of space is available on the 4GB solidstate drive. After a moment, Picasa starts transferring photos!Ī problem with the Eee is its lack of storage space. Click the Select Device droplist, and then choose GPhoto2 Camera.Ĥ. If necessary, turn on the camera (the S1is turns on automatically when it detects the USB connection).ģ. Connect the camera to the Eee with a USB cable. In Picasa, I clicked the Import button.Ģ. Would it work with my Canon S1is camera? This one uses the CompactFlash memory card, which is too large for the Eee's SD slot. The purpose of Picasa is to download photos from digital cameras, sort them, apply affects, and output them by email, to printers, and so on. (You'll first see a blank Shell window appear. Click Save (the diskette button on the toolbar).ĭ. Leave the URL unchanged (file:///usr/bin/picasa).Ĭ. Under Bookmark, right-click usr/bin/picasa and then chose Rename. On the bookmark toolbar, right-click usr/bin/picasa and choose Open in Bookmark Editor. You can change this text to read Picasa, like this:Ī. The bookmark (shortcut) appears as /usr/bin/picasa. If the Bookmark toolbar is not displayed, turn it on: from the Views menu, choose Toolbars, and then turn on Bookmark Bar. Right-click, and then choose Add Bookmark from the shortcut menu.ĥ. Scroll down to find picasa (press P to get to the P section quickly).Ĥ. Navigate to the folder that holds the Picasa shortcut: /usr/binģ. Here are the steps to creating bookmarks (equivalent to shortcuts in Windows) in File Manager:Ģ. You can skip past the colored text if you already know how to create bookmarks: After it has run using the bookmark, Picasa deposits an icon of itself on the taskbar. There might be a way to get a Picasa icon on the Eee's desktop, but.Īfter all the steps I worked out below, I found that manually creating a bookmark (shortcut) was necessary to launch Picasa for the first time after a reboot. It can be a pain entering Ctrl+Alt+T and typing /usr/bin/picasa each time we want to see a coupla' pictures. Google has a list of known problems here. Google suggests running the following command in the terminal window:Īnd then it ran! It is scrunched into that small screen, and unfortunately Picasa does not let you turn off UI elements. Picasa is installed, but how to run it? No icon is installed on the Eee desktop. Eventually a message appears about Picasa being installed.Ĥ. Enter the following text (copy and paste doesn't seem available):ģ. Open a terminal window (equivalent to a DOS or Run window in Windows) with the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut.Ģ. Darn! But the Google page provides this advice, should the automatic installer not work:ġ. I choose Run.Īfter the download finished, the installer didn't work. Firefox asks if you want to save or run with the installer. I was a bit worried about the requirements for WINE and Mozilla - where they included on the Eee? (It is.) I decided to install first, figure out problems later.Ĥ. Since the Eee 4G's Linux is based on Xandros, and Xandrosis based on Debian, I choose Free Download (.deb) - for Debian/Ubuntu x86 (32-bit). The Web page lists several types of installers. Click the prominent Download Picasa 2.7 for Linux button.ģ. Go to the Picasa Linux page at /linux/.Ģ. On the Eee's Internet tab, open the Firefox browser ( Web button).ġ. I got it running on my dad's old Compaq with its Ubuntu Linux, and I wondered if it would install on the Eee 4G. Picasa is my primary software for dealing with the tens of thousands of digital photographs I have taken since 1999.
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