Re: Clairification - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]
On Tue 30 May 2017 at 04:15:10 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 05/29/2017 10:55 PM, Michael Milliman wrote:
> >
> >On 05/29/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote:
> >>
> >>There are legitimate concerns about aspects of feh's behaviour, not
> >>sufficient as yet to prevent my recommending it, but the topic prompted
> >>a bit of exploring. So I took a look at Debian's sxiv in Stretch.
> >>
> >>sxiv is somewhat similar to feh. It has an installed size a third of
> >>feh's (an advantage?) and is fast at rendering and responsive. Nothing
> >>scientific, but thumbnails (without caching) seem to render quicker than
> >>feh does it. One can easily switch between thumbnail view and picture
> >>display. The upstream developer is also active, which is never a bad
> >>thing.
> >>
> >>Downsides? Definitely. But this post is an advocacy one for those Debian
> >>users who just want to view their pictures without installing tons of
> >>GNOME dependencies or like to be able to configure things for their
> >>particular use case.
> >>
> >>I am now torn between feh and sxiv. That is the problem with threads
> >>like this, which promote delving into available packages and having to
> >>make a choice. :)
> >>
> >For me, though, the important aspect is will sxiv change the desktop
> >background like feh will?
>
> I found no mention of anything like that in its man page.
> YMMV
Nope. There are lots of wallpaper setters available. You can
also integrate the tool of your choice via the key handler.
https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/issues/192
--
Brian.
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