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  Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-05-23 01:00 +0200

#235481 — Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)

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On 2021-05-22 at 14:50, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On Fri May 21 16:08:33 2021 Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> 
>  > There are five binaries that get installed in Slackware for the
>  > xv package:
>  > usr/bin/xvpictoppm
>  > usr/bin/xv
>  > usr/bin/vdcomp
>  > usr/bin/bggen
>  > usr/bin/xcmap
>  >
>  > and there are zero libraries installed.  So if you do get a successful
>  > compile, you can simply put the "xv" binary in a ~/bin directory, add
>  > that dir to your PATH, and use it without 'mucking up' anything with
>  > the rest of the system.
> 
> I love xv - it's my go-to JPEG viewer.  Its command-line interface is
> dead simple, and it's lightweight and fast.  It has one problem, though:
> it can't display many newer JPEG files.  It comes up with the message:
> 
> <filename>: Unsupported JPEG process: SOF type 0xc2
> 
> I have to fall back to another viewer (usually ristretto, which I
> really don't like) to view these files.  (Working on a file that
> xv likes with the Gimp is one good way to make a file it doesn't
> like.)
> 
> The latest version I've been able to find is 3.10a.  Is there a
> newer version out there that can handle all JPEGs?

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.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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