The display program is not usable [LWN.net]

The display program is not usable

Posted Mar 24, 2004 12:01 UTC (Wed) by cfischer (guest, #3983)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers by ctg
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

For casual users, who once in a while want to crop
an image and save it in a different format,
the display program is like hell.

I've recently tried it; I'm a Debian user
who misses xv severely.

The user interface for cut-and-paste is the epitome
of unusability.

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Posted Mar 24, 2004 16:45 UTC (Wed) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm a Debian user who misses xv severely.

Grab the sources and build it. It builds very easily on Debian. Then use checkinstall to build the .deb and install that.

Posted Mar 25, 2004 7:57 UTC (Thu) by mow (guest, #955) [Link]

You don't even have to compile yourself.
Just look at the unofficial APT repositories at
http://www.apt-get.org/ and search for xv