Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

From	Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.
Date	2025-07-15 08:35 +0100
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On 2025-07-15, Marc Haber wrote:

> Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> writes:
>>> I would use xv (by John Bradley) for that. It used to be in most Linux
>>> distros, but does not seem to be anymore.  More information: 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)
>>
>>I use XV once in a while, but on my 5K monitor it's a real struggle to
>>read the text.  I took a look at the source, everything is placed by
>>pixel.  It didn't look easy to fix.
>
> xv is an ancient program. I am not surprised that it wasnt written
> with today's resolutions and screen sizes in mind.

I suppose it's the doing pixel-by-pixel that's a problem here. X11 has
supported different resolutions for *decades*.

> The reason why it is not in the Linux distros is that it isnt free
> (neither as in beer, not as in speech). The cited wikipedia entry
> doesnt mention a license change, so I am not sure WHY it EVER was in
> "most Linux distros".

Are there even that many distros which only include FLOSS?

-- 
Nuno Silva

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