imv is a command line image viewer intended for use with tiling window managers.
imv can be used to display slideshows. You can set the number of seconds to show each image for with the -t option at start up, or you can configure it at runtime using the t and T hotkeys to increase and decrease the image display time, respectively.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Native Wayland and X11 support.
- Support for dozens of image formats including:
- PNG.
- JPEG.
- Animated GIFs.
- SVG.
- TIFF.
- Various RAW formats.
- Photoshop PSD files.
- Configurable key bindings and behaviour.
- Highly scriptable with IPC via imv-msg. With the default bindings, imv can be used to select images in a pipeline by using the p hotkey to print the current image’s path to stdout. The -l flag can also be used to tell imv to list the remaining paths on exit for a “open set of images, close unwanted ones with x, then quit imv to pass the remaining images through” workflow.
Website: sr.ht/~exec64/imv/
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Developer: Harry Jeffery
License: MIT License
imv is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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