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

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Brian wrote:
>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.

Aha! Thanks for the suggestion! I've been looking for years for a
replacement for xv myself. I've been playing with each of the things
suggested here, but with no joy. Finally, I think sxiv looks like a
winner! :-)

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"We're the technical experts.  We were hired so that management could
 ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."  -- Mike Andrews

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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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