• Fullscreen mode in xv

    From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 21 14:19:13 2024
    Hello, all.

    xv seems an advanced and time-honoured image viewer, yet I can't
    seem do with the most basic thing expected of an image viewer: to
    view the photographs in a directory, sequentially one at a time,
    in a "full-screen" mode, that is when all I see on screen is the
    image and (if unavoidable) the window boundaries around the edges
    of the screen, but nothing else. Can xv do it, i.e. hide its control
    window, make the image window the size of the screen, and fit the
    image to the dimensions of the screen, with horisonal or vertical
    black bars where the aspect radio does not match?

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to Anton Shepelev on Sat Sep 21 15:55:32 2024
    Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
    Hello, all.

    xv seems an advanced and time-honoured image viewer, yet I can't
    seem do with the most basic thing expected of an image viewer

    xv is a great viewer, but AFAIK it is no longer maintained :(

    Plus XV is kind of shareware, see the README that comes with xv.

    <snip>

    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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  • From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to John McCue on Sat Sep 21 19:24:54 2024
    John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> wrote:
    Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
    Hello, all.

    xv seems an advanced and time-honoured image viewer, yet I can't
    seem do with the most basic thing expected of an image viewer

    xv is a great viewer, but AFAIK it is no longer maintained :(

    A program may be great as is and remain so for many years
    without maintenance -- /The Beauty of Finished Software/.
    But what about my question about xv: How to view images in
    fullscreen without either xv's own control window, nor any
    other windows, in the way?

    Plus XV is kind of shareware, see the README that comes with xv.

    Yes, but am neither a commerical user, not an institution, so
    no problem with me.

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to anton.txt@gmail.moc on Sun Sep 22 06:14:52 2024
    In comp.unix.misc, Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
    xv seems an advanced and time-honoured image viewer, yet I can't
    seem do with the most basic thing expected of an image viewer: to
    view the photographs in a directory, sequentially one at a time,
    in a "full-screen" mode, that is when all I see on screen is the
    image and (if unavoidable) the window boundaries around the edges
    of the screen, but nothing else. Can xv do it, i.e. hide its control
    window, make the image window the size of the screen, and fit the
    image to the dimensions of the screen, with horisonal or vertical
    black bars where the aspect radio does not match?

    I think xv is still the default image viewer on Slackware, so the
    readers of alt.os.linux.slackware may be more regular users. I have not
    used xv for anything other than cropping images in years. The fast
    startup and keyboard control mean I can open/crop/save/exit an image
    faster than gimp can count it's plugins at startup.

    For image viewing, I use feh, which can do that easily, but does not
    have as many editing features as xv.

    feh -F directoryname

    Feh is not as old as xv, but it turns 25 this year, so it's no spring
    chicken.

    Elijah
    ------
    has been using feh over twenty years now

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  • From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Sun Sep 22 12:08:43 2024
    XPost: alt.os.linux.slackware

    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
    In comp.unix.misc, Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
    xv seems an advanced and time-honoured image viewer, yet I can't
    seem do with the most basic thing expected of an image viewer: to
    view the photographs in a directory, sequentially one at a time,
    in a "full-screen" mode, that is when all I see on screen is the
    image and (if unavoidable) the window boundaries around the edges
    of the screen, but nothing else. Can xv do it, i.e. hide its control
    window, make the image window the size of the screen, and fit the
    image to the dimensions of the screen, with horisonal or vertical
    black bars where the aspect radio does not match?

    I think xv is still the default image viewer on Slackware, so the
    readers of alt.os.linux.slackware may be more regular users.

    Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.os.linux.slackware
    Followup-To: alt.os.linux.slackware

    I have not
    used xv for anything other than cropping images in years. The fast
    startup and keyboard control mean I can open/crop/save/exit an image
    faster than gimp can count it's plugins at startup.

    <tangent>
    If you still scan negative film, you might be in interested
    in RawThereappe -- and huge raw processor with a film-inversion
    algorithm.
    </tangent>

    For image viewing, I use feh, which can do that easily, but does not
    have as many editing features as xv.

    feh -F directoryname

    Feh is not as old as xv, but it turns 25 this year, so it's no spring >chicken.

    Thank you, I will try feh.

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  • From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to Anton Shepelev on Sun Sep 22 12:11:21 2024
    In comp.unix.misc Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
    <tangent>
    If you still scan negative film, you might be in interested
    in RawThereappe -- and huge raw processor with a film-inversion
    algorithm.
    </tangent>

    RawTherapee.

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Sun Sep 22 14:23:07 2024
    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
    <snip>

    I think xv is still the default image viewer on Slackware...

    It was moved to /extra in version 15.0, but it still works
    fine for me.

    <snip>

    Elijah
    ------
    has been using feh over twenty years now

    In some cases I have started to use feh too, I got feh from
    slackbuilds.

    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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  • From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Sun Sep 22 22:02:10 2024
    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
    For image viewing, I use feh, which can do that easily, but does not
    have as many editing features as xv.

    feh -F directoryname

    Feh is not as old as xv, but it turns 25 this year, so it's no spring >chicken.

    Thank you, it works. So, does xv not support a similar full-screen
    mode?

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to anton.txt@gmail.moc on Sun Sep 22 23:50:23 2024
    In comp.unix.misc, Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
    Thank you, it works. So, does xv not support a similar full-screen
    mode?

    It looks like[*] xv can do something like that if you give it a
    `-geometry` option that fills the entire screen and `-fixed` to
    specify that it should treat aspect ratios as fixed.

    I have not tried this. -maxpect may do the same.

    [*] Section 12 of the docs, which are shipped as postscript and
    my copy of gv does not like them. But I found a PDF here:
    https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pdf

    Elijah
    ------
    not sure xv does windows sans borders

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  • From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to Eli the Bearded on Mon Sep 23 10:24:06 2024
    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
    In comp.unix.misc, Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
    Thank you, it works. So, does xv not support a similar full-screen
    mode?

    It looks like[*] xv can do something like that if you give it a
    `-geometry` option that fills the entire screen and `-fixed` to
    specify that it should treat aspect ratios as fixed.

    I have not tried this. -maxpect may do the same.

    Thank you, will try.

    [*] Section 12 of the docs, which are shipped as postscript and
    my copy of gv does not like them. But I found a PDF here:
    https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pdf

    PostScript is an open standard, but not entirely portable as it
    requires that fonts used in the document be available on the reader
    side. PDF is more portable, but proprietary...

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  • From Geoff Clare@21:1/5 to Anton Shepelev on Mon Sep 23 13:37:32 2024
    Anton Shepelev wrote:

    PostScript is an open standard, but not entirely portable as it
    requires that fonts used in the document be available on the reader
    side. PDF is more portable, but proprietary...

    PDF stopped being proprietary either in 2008 or 2017 depending on
    your viewpoint. (It has been an ISO standard since 2008 but it
    wasn't until the 2017 edition that there was a version developed
    by a vendor-neutral ISO forum.)

    It is even freely available now, unlike most other ISO standards.

    https://pdfa.org/sponsored-standards

    --
    Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>

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  • From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to Geoff Clare on Mon Sep 23 17:04:53 2024
    Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.see-my-signature.invalid> wrote:
    Anton Shepelev wrote:

    PostScript is an open standard, but not entirely portable as it
    requires that fonts used in the document be available on the reader
    side. PDF is more portable, but proprietary...

    PDF stopped being proprietary either in 2008 or 2017 depending on
    your viewpoint. (It has been an ISO standard since 2008 but it
    wasn't until the 2017 edition that there was a version developed
    by a vendor-neutral ISO forum.)

    It is even freely available now, unlike most other ISO standards.

    https://pdfa.org/sponsored-standards

    Good to know, I stand corrected.

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