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

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)
Date	2021-05-23 19:30 +0200
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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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Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-05-23 19:30 +0200
  Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.) Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-05-23 21:40 +0200
    Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-05-24 12:10 +0200
      Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-05-24 19:30 +0200

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