Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)
On Sat 22 May 2021 at 18:52:18 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> I have no idea about xv specifically, but you might consider qiv, which
> is in Debian. It's lightweight (87K for the binary, 204K by my count for
> the package), I've never had difficulty with its command-line interface
> (in point of fact, I usually just 'qiv filename' and don't worry about
> the options), and I don't recall having ever found an image file of any
> format that it can't open.
>
> I'd be curious to know what it is about the xv command-line interface
> that you find so notably simple, especially if in fact the qiv
> command-line interface does not turn out to share that quality.
When I wanted a quick, lightweight image viewer I setted on sxiv. I
also wanted to print from the viewer and sxiv gives me that facilty.
My recollection is neither qiv nor feh gave me that. Maybe I didn't
look hard enough.
--
Brian.
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