ucollage is an extensible command line image viewer inspired by vim.
The software can display images on top of your terminal window by using ueberzug. The latter is able to do that by exploiting the properties of the X window your terminal emulator is currently attached to.
Note that ueberzug is no longer maintained. It was a tool which allowed to hack image support into terminal emulators if they fulfilled certain properties. It was not designed to be a competitor to projects which established a standard for images in terminals.
ucollage is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Support for images and videos.
- Builtin actions:
- Renaming.
- Moving to Trash.
- Rating.
- Categories.
- Editing images supporting undo and redo actions.
- Fully customizable vim keybindings.
- Command execution.
- User defined actions – define custom scripts that will use the selected files in order to perform different tasks.
Website: github.com/ckardaris/ucollage
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Developer: Charalampos Kardaris
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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