On 2021-05-22 6:52 p.m., The Wanderer wrote: > 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.
I think he ain't using Debian so maybe qiv is not part of his distribution. > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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