[SOLVED] wanted: extremely simple image viewer to use in terminal in X

Originally Posted by ondoho That's funny. You have been given a bunch of constructive recommendations to what is essentially a question for a search engine, yet you choose to reply negatively to the only one you recognize and don't like. There's a name for behaviour like this. You can find it in my signature. Have you even tried feh, sxiv, imv etc.?

i originally checked through google. last i heard it is a search engine. those were in the search results and i tried them then. they did not accomplish the intended results.

Originally Posted by remmilou It does! From thge commandline: /usr/bin/firefox/ --new-window 'path/to/file.jpg' It is really as simple as that.

it didn't! see this link:

http://ipal.net/lq/20200805/pixie.png

Keith: that script looks interesting. i will have to try it later ... dinner calls.

tried it. i don't have gtkdialog and don't know what package it is in. i tried to install a package of that name but it does not exist. i am running Xubuntu 18.04. that may be why i don't have it.

Originally Posted by Skaperen tried it. i don't have gtkdialog and don't know what package it is in. i tried to install a package of that name but it does not exist. i am running Xubuntu 18.04. that may be why i don't have it.

source only you can get it from here
https://storage.googleapis.com/googl...g-0.8.3.tar.gz

gtk2 only
there are a few deb packages available just do a search an pick a suitable one

Originally Posted by scasey ?? Firefox will open such window if the requested file is the image file...or after right-clicking on an image and selecting View Image, if the image is on a web page. It won't adjust the view automagically, but you can manage that after the image is opened.

Originally Posted by Skaperen i just did it and it opened a 400x400 image with a much larger window. http://ipal.net/lq/20200805/pixie-04...in-firefox.png http://ipal.net/lq/20200805/pixie-0400x0400.png

Emphasis added...
I use Adobe on Windows and GIMP on Linux. Neither of them automatically adjusts their window size...nor would I want them to.
I’m out.

Originally Posted by scasey Emphasis added... I use Adobe on Windows and GIMP on Linux. Neither of them automatically adjusts their window size...nor would I want them to. I’m out.

you (any user) should have a say in what it does, over the scope of what the developer chooses to implement. command line options and/or config files provide a means to do that.

see this link: https://alternativeto.net/software/i...platform=linux

for a very simple image viewer i use Gmic
https://gmic.eu/

while it is a powerful tool it has a very simple viewer

cd to/the /folder/with/the /image 

gmic image.png

No cd necessary - just "gmic /path/to/image.png" works fine.

It doesn't appear to do the one-pixel-at-a-time panning that the OP wants though?

Still, it does have a helpful feature for a task I'll be doing soon - it provides a crosshair and states the coordinates and colour at that location, even whilst another window is focused.

A downsize is "gmic --help" returns several thousand lines of documentation without pagination (instead of the usual concise summary I expect from a command line tool).

gmic is definitely not an "extremely simple image viewer"

i finally got feh to work right. my script was launching it wrong. this works well, now, thought i have to remember to use Ctrl with the arrow keys to pan and scroll.

Originally Posted by Skaperen i have to remember to use Ctrl with the arrow keys to pan and scroll.

You can adapt that to your likings.
'man feh', KEYS section.