[ale] OT Shot in the dark, cli image viewer

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Geoffrey wrote:

> Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam Gopalan wrote:
> > Actually, there is a commandline image viewer called zgv.. Just tried it
> > over ssh and it works.. 
> 
> I think there is some confusion here.  There are a number of cli 
> viewers, display, xv, and so on.  You can even open an image with 'gimp 
> image.foo'

There is confusion, but not where you think :-)

zgv is an actual command-line app in the sense that it works on a VT without
X at all. It uses svgalib or SDL.

xv, display, etc. aren't command-line in that sense. Sure, you can type xv
foo.jpg on the command-line, but it's an X app and doing that will just fire
up a separate X window to display, not use svgalib to display in that same
terminal....

later,
chris