[ale] Image programs for Linux?

[Jay Loden]

What's the command to invoke xv ?  I don't have any "xv" on my machine, but I 
do have imagemagick installed.  Is it maybe not included because of the 
closed source nature? 

(I'm running mandrake 10)

-Jay

On Thursday 18 November 2004 01:42 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jay Loden wrote:
> > I'm a hardcore Linux user, won't be going back to using Windows ever, if
> > I can help it, but there is ONE thing that I just haven't found for Linux
> > that I had on Windows, and that's Irfanview.
> >
> > Irfanview, for those who don't know it, is a small, fast image editor and
> > viewer for Windows.  It's tiny, and fast, yet it lets you do a whole host
> > of image editing, like resizing, renaming, slideshow creation, more than
> > I can even list.  Does anyone out there know of anything similar for
> > Linux?
> >
> > Kuickshow at least is a fast image viewer, and lets you do an extremely
> > limited number of things (convert an image to a new format, for example)
> > but I need something that at least lets me do simple resize, rotate,
> > crop, and some ehancements and preferably some filters.  (irfanview has a
> > small set of nice filters like greyscale and whatnot, some image
> > sharpeners, and so forth).
> >
> > Before someone says it, I know the GIMP can do a lot of these things,
> > BUT, the GIMP is a lot heavier than what I want, and not the most
> > convenient tool for the job.  It's like opening Photoshop just to resize
> > your digital photos - overkill.
>
> xv
> display which comes with imagemagick.  imagemagick has a number of other
> tools as well.