Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:53:21 -0400
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc

>       I'm looking for a decent command-line image viewer with the
>following properties:
>
>       - the ability to display the image's entire pathname in the
>titlebar (display and xview/xli can do this with the -title option, but
>neither have a delete command)
>
>       - the ability to delete the image from a context menu or something
>similar (like gqview has, but the titlebar can't be modified, it seems)
>
>       Oh, and if it's fast and not a memory hog, that would help.
>
>       So, does anybody know of a decent viewer that meets these
>criteria?  Thanks.

I've been using "qiv" Quick Image Viewer. You can find it on freshmeat or sourceforge. It is very fast, and low on memory usage. It has alot of features considering it's size, 39k stripped. It has slideshow, and alot of keypress functions. It's the smallest and fastest to load of any image program that I've experimented with. Just put an alias to it called "q" and "q image.ext" pops it right up.

http://www.klografx.net/qiv/

You can get the source, so you may fiddle with the title bar.

Quick Image Viewer (qiv) Keys:

space/left mouse/wheel down      next picture
backspace/right mouse/wheel up   previous picture
PgDn                             5 pictures forward
PgUp                             5 pictures backward
q/ESC/middle mouse               exit

0-9                Run 'qiv-command <key> <current-img>'
?                  show keys (in fullscreen mode)
d/D/del            move picture to .qiv-trash
u                  undelete the previously trashed image
+/=                zoom in (10%)
-                  zoom out (10%)
e                  center mode on/off
f                  fullscreen mode on/off
m                  scale to screen size on/off
t                  scale down on/off
s                  slide show on/off
p                  transparency on/off
r                  random order on/off
b                  - brightness
B                  + brightness
c                  - contrast
C                  + contrast
g                  - gamma
G                  + gamma
arrow keys         move image (in fullscreen mode)
h                  flip horizontal
v                  flip vertical
k                  rotate right
l                  rotate left
jtx<return>        jump to image number x
jfx<return>        jump forward x images
jbx<return>        jump backward x images
enter/return       reset zoom and color settings
i                  statusbar on/off
I                  iconify window
x                  center image on background
y                  tile image on background
z                  stretch image on background