CLI friendly image viewer?

TheLexx · 11-14-2018, 10:05 AM

I am looking for image viewing software that is CLI friendly. Up until now, I have been using xv as my primary image viewing software when I start the process from a shell. However as it has been two decades since the codebase for xv has been maintained so it runs into bugs and crashes from time to time.

I have used Eog (Eye of Gnome) for some image viewing, however there is a flaw that limits it's usefulness when it is started from CLI. My problem is that when I start Eog from a CLI, Eog will include images that I did not specify from the CLI. Eog likes to grab images from the directory it is in or grab images that I viewed from a previous times.

The behavior can throw a wrench in the works when I create a script or regular expression that I specifically designed to show me a subset of the images on my computer. Many times I decide to erase a batch of images that I wish to delete, I may want to view them one list time just to be sure. I must use xv to view them, because, if I use Eog and it shows me pick that I did not specify in the CLI, I could panic only to because that the image that I did not wish to delete was never in the pool of images to discard.

I have read the documentation for Eog and I did not see an option that forces it to refrain from displaying images not specified in the CLI. Admittedly, I am running an older version of Eog, but I do not want to have to compile Eog again just to discover that the needed functionality is not included.

Do you know of an image viewer that fits my required criteria, or is there is a way to prevent Eog from displaying unwanted images?

kilgoretrout · 11-14-2018, 10:24 AM

Have you tried feh? That's an application not an utterance of exasperation:

https://linux.die.net/man/1/feh

l0f4r0 · 11-14-2018, 10:30 AM

I don't have the answer to your question but if you are looking for alternatives then some have already been discussed at https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...er-4175637004/.
Maybe some of them can meet your requirement?

TheLexx · 11-14-2018, 11:30 AM

Ok this has got me intrigued

Code:

Description

feh is a mode-based image viewer. It is especially aimed at command
line users who need a fast image viewer without huge GUI dependencies,
though it can also be started by (graphical) file managers to view an
image.

I'll also take a look at the thread that l0f4r0 suggested.

dugan · 11-14-2018, 11:56 AM

sxiv or pqiv.

syg00 · 11-14-2018, 05:40 PM

I've used feh forever, was the only one I could find at the time.
Of course, this means CLI under X, not console mode.