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Re: replacement for xv?



On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:58:55PM -0400, Richard Beri wrote:
> > Hello!

hi,

> > i tryed several progs that might replace xv but found none for the
> > moment... they need either ages to load (e.g. gimp) or can't cope with most
> > file formats (e.g. qiv)..... 
> > 
> > is there anything out there, supported by normal packages, that is by
> > any means as lightweight and powerful as xv?
> > 
> > i tryed imagemagic, and since i scan a lot and xsane (isn't there BTW a
> > better grafical frontend than that one?) produces often corrupt
> > images, imagemagic isn't able to cope with it.... have to put the images
> > on gimp, and then save them .... i have a comp with an older conf, where
> > xv is still on it, and thus the other way is to trasnfere the image
> > there open with xv and save again.... quite cumbersome....
> > 
> > so if someone has another suggestion....
> > 
> 
> Try feh it is very fast at loading all types of images.

i use xzgv. its fast as well,  has thumbnail support and let me zoom
images.



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