The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

Posted Mar 23, 2004 23:32 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

For purely image viewing, I recommend qiv.

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qiv

Posted Mar 24, 2004 5:23 UTC (Wed) by mmarkov (guest, #4978) [Link] (1 responses)

I agree. qiv stands for quick image viewer,
and that's what it is. It is very small, very
fast, just a viewer, not an editor. It does
not create .qivrc or something in your home dir
and it does not generate thumbnails like ee.

qiv

Posted Mar 24, 2004 21:18 UTC (Wed) by xorbe (guest, #3165) [Link]

qiv also scales images very crappily, IIRC.