node titles as pager

I would like to be able to use node titles as pagers

Add node title to your fields. Go to "views slideshow display" configuration. Select node title in the pager section.

for example, on homepage there is a menu list 'Incredible landscapes', etc. I would like these to be the pagers for the slide below

Maybe http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow_menu will help. I have never used that module, so excuse me if i am wrong.

I have this needs too; i have many fields, but I cant see any of them in the pager select menu, i only have "numbered" and "thumbnails"

i have many fields, but I cant see any of them in the pager select menu

I guess you are using vss 6.x-2.x. Frankly, i don't remember how to do this in 6.x-2.x
(maybe you have to choose Pager type: thumbnails. And then, maybe, you will see a list of fields to choose as thumbnails. I am not sure, sorry)

nope, just after the select box there is the phrase What the pager should look like. Thumbnails grabs the first image in each slideshow item.

But youre right, im using views 2.x , and so slideshow 2.x

You need to enable and use Views Slideshow Thumbnailhover and use that for 2.x

#5 work for me.

I'm using singleframe and if you look at the javascript, there is actually a little way you can manually define the pager text for each slide easily.

Drupal.theme.prototype.viewsSlideshowPagerNumbered = function (classes, idx, slide, settings) {
  var href = '#';
  if (settings.pager_click_to_page) {
    href = $(slide).find('a').attr('href');
  }
  var title = $(slide).find('h3').text();
  return '<div class="' + classes + '"><a href="' + href + '">' + title + '</a></div>';
}

All you have to do is theme your view to print what you want as the pager title within an <h3> tag. I then added h3 { display: none; } to my stylesheet. I haven't tried anything but singleframe, but I can only assume the other scripts are similar.