Can anyone get seejpeg & svgalib to work? An alternative non-X image viewer?
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Can anyone get seejpeg & svgalib to work? An alternative non-X image viewer?
I was happy with seejpeg & svgalib, but they stopped working sometime ago and nothing I have tried has gotten them to work. I've been building fbida to view images non-X-ly. I see no alternative package in Slackware: have I missed it?
On 14.1, I was able to rebuild libcaca after installing imlib2 from SBo and removing the --disable-imlib2 from the libcaca SlackBuild, but in my quick tests, I'm running into compilation issues on 14.2. Unfortunately, I don't have time to dig into it right now, but it might be worth looking into yourself.
Once you have libcaca built with imlib2 support, you can use cacaview to view images in the terminal without X.
fbvis (which I built but didn't install) is a small framebuffer image viewer.
It includes stbi and lodepng and does not use external libraries.
fbvis is short for visualize on the framebuffer. http://repo.or.cz/fbvis.git
That's a version of seejpeg and svgalib even older than Slackware's package; the links it has to source are dead.
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Originally Posted by vonbiber
I have fbida-2.13 installed in my system
From a Slackware package? I've been using fbida for years but I've built it myself.
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Originally Posted by vonbiber
(I didn't build/install it):
fbv (FrameBuffer Viewer)...fbvis... fim (lightweight image viewer)
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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal
On 14.1, I was able to rebuild libcaca after installing imlib2 from SBo and removing the --disable-imlib2 from the libcaca SlackBuild,...Once you have libcaca built with imlib2 support, you can use cacaview to view images in the terminal without X.
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Originally Posted by syg00
Have a look at feh - I quite like it.
I raised the issue in the Slackware forum because I hoped that Slackers would want a non-X image viewer as part of Slackware. If I'm the only one - hard cheese for me.
I'll go on a tangent.
Perhaps you should try netsurf? It is actually a light-weight web browser that works in the framebuffer but it displays mere images just fine, too.
See https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/net...amebuffer-too/ for more info. Actually very useful if you need information from the Internet and you're on a server without X.
fbida, fim, fbvis: I built all of these from source and
my own SlackBuilds (which I'd be happy to share)
I've been building fbida for years and am happy enough with it (though it often can't display PDFs). I didn't ask about a viewer but a package, in case I had missed a package in Slackware so I didn't waste my time asking for a package to be added.
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Originally Posted by vonbiber
There's also zgv http://www.svgalib.org/rus/zgv/
but, looking at the ChangeLog, the latest version (5.9) dates from 2005-01-28
I tried to build zgv and failed: it requires svgalib.
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Originally Posted by BW-userx
that is what made me wonder why you looking to raise the dead. then I read about it in the paper, (LQ post) So I just stayed out of it.
seejpeg and svgalib are still Slackware packages: they may be effectively dead but they live in Slackware's distribution. If no one can make them work perhaps they should be removed.
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Originally Posted by Alien Bob
I'll go on a tangent.
Perhaps you should try netsurf? It is actually a light-weight web browser that works in the framebuffer but it displays mere images just fine, too.
See https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/net...amebuffer-too/ for more info. Actually very useful if you need information from the Internet and you're on a server without X.
Thanks. I downloaded it and will try it. I have X but I prefer non-X and I'd rather not start up a browser just to display an image.
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