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. st...@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
