Thank you so much for showing us this! I have been using sxiv for images, but it really let me down when looking at very small images, I could never see the pixels and it was very buggy, I ended up using plan9's page program, which's x11 port was very buggy. pqiv on the other hand, could see the pixels just fine!
Cool one! I switched from sxiv to vimiv (specifically, vimiv-qt which is the new rewrite), I think you should try it out! It's written in python but honestly it's really fast and has a bunch of really useful features(and it's mostly similar to sxiv since it's inspired by it, which means your muscle memory will be maintained(!)).
I have a bash script that loads an image using pqiv. Then later on, it may load a different image depending on the result of a if statement. However each time I run the pqiv command it loads in a new window. Is there a way to load the new image in the same window, or at least kill the other window as part of the load? I tried loading both images in the first command but then I need some way to switch to the second image from the bash script. I can't see a way to do this and yet it seems so simple! Can anyone help?
I was using sxiv but switched to this a while back. Your statement regarding to every feature that can be implemented in sxiv is wrong: - I wasn't able to make thumbnail size bigger in montage mode in sxiv. It's quite easy in pqiv. - sxiv requires a Ctrl-x to be pressed before every custom key. Well, you can bind anything to any command in pqiv. You can't also override keybindings in sxiv. - sxiv is unbearably slower at creating thumbnails of big files and sometimes it just can't. I think it just tries to create them sequentially instead of doing in another thread. (open a folder in sxiv with 100 10MP+ images, it will become unresponsive) Although, sxiv is better if you don't want to customize it. Otherwise the answer is pqiv.
Hey Brodie, do you have any video about linux compatibility with hardware? I want to have an desktop with dual boot and/or a laptop with only linux but I'm afraid of the compatibility and the problems it may cause
Just the other day I installed this image viewer. I haven't looked at his manpage but it can even play videos. It's pretty much like Zathura but for images and videos.
@@BrodieRobertson I saw images before of people doing pretty much everything in the tty using just a multiplexer inside of fbterm, so it is or was possible somehow. Unfortunately a lot of projects that made that possible and better seem to be dead, though the subject has been discussed not that long ago. For people that don't care about multitasking and that can live in the links browser's graphical mode, it's already pretty viable. Only for peak mememalists though. For people that think multitasking is bloat.
@@censoredterminalautism4073 What does multitasking have to do with graphical window managers? Jobs and job control exist, as well as terminal multiplexers and, if that’s not enough, often also multiple TTYs.
@@humm535 Try to run fbv, links -g (in graphical mode, Links supports images, and it has mouse support in the TTY, which is pretty neat), NetSurf, fbpdf or mpv or any program that runs in the framebuffer inside of a multiplexer (in the case of links, it's generally compiled with that option disabled, so make sure to use a version that supports that). It didn't work last time I tried. Not saying that it's impossible because I have seen images of it being done, so clearly a few people figured it out. I have seen GTK programs running that way as well, I think in an image in a pdf that was used in a presentation. Multiple TTYs are fine, but not ideal.
I really like Viewnior, it's GUI, no random buttons etc. You can turn off everything in settings, looks very minimal
Where are all these wallpaper images from? I like them a lot
4chan anime/wallpapers i am sure
here I'm, using feh and currently happy with it. It light, it can sort files, that's enough for me. I would try sxiv n pqiv though.
same here...learned about feh way back when puppylinux came out....
using feh for cli, and XnView for when i want a gui.
Thank you so much for showing us this! I have been using sxiv for images, but it really let me down when looking at very small images, I could never see the pixels and it was very buggy, I ended up using plan9's page program, which's x11 port was very buggy.
pqiv on the other hand, could see the pixels just fine!
Cool one! I switched from sxiv to vimiv (specifically, vimiv-qt which is the new rewrite), I think you should try it out! It's written in python but honestly it's really fast and has a bunch of really useful features(and it's mostly similar to sxiv since it's inspired by it, which means your muscle memory will be maintained(!)).
Sounds right up my alley
Can I change window size?
I have a bash script that loads an image using pqiv. Then later on, it may load a different image depending on the result of a if statement. However each time I run the pqiv command it loads in a new window. Is there a way to load the new image in the same window, or at least kill the other window as part of the load? I tried loading both images in the first command but then I need some way to switch to the second image from the bash script. I can't see a way to do this and yet it seems so simple! Can anyone help?
I was using sxiv but switched to this a while back. Your statement regarding to every feature that can be implemented in sxiv is wrong:
- I wasn't able to make thumbnail size bigger in montage mode in sxiv. It's quite easy in pqiv.
- sxiv requires a Ctrl-x to be pressed before every custom key. Well, you can bind anything to any command in pqiv. You can't also override keybindings in sxiv.
- sxiv is unbearably slower at creating thumbnails of big files and sometimes it just can't. I think it just tries to create them sequentially instead of doing in another thread. (open a folder in sxiv with 100 10MP+ images, it will become unresponsive)
Although, sxiv is better if you don't want to customize it. Otherwise the answer is pqiv.
Hey Brodie, do you have any video about linux compatibility with hardware? I want to have an desktop with dual boot and/or a laptop with only linux but I'm afraid of the compatibility and the problems it may cause
Hol’ up, you _still_ don’t understand shell globbing? The expansion of filenames with asterisks is done by the shell, not by pqiv.
The point I was making was that it supports multiple file names being passed in
Just the other day I installed this image viewer. I haven't looked at his manpage but it can even play videos. It's pretty much like Zathura but for images and videos.
which zsh theme are you using ?
If you mean my shell prompt, I don't know what a ZSH theme is supposed to be, it's called spaceship
Thought I knew them all. I was using sxiv myself, but I switch to ucollage. First time hearing about pqiv. Still going to stay with ucollage so far.
There's so much software out there that never gets any attention
@@BrodieRobertson So true. Old, abandon, modified or new. Linux is an endless adventure.
So simple a caveman could do it!
True mememalists use fbv in the tty because window managers are bloat.
That'll be a fun project
@@BrodieRobertson I saw images before of people doing pretty much everything in the tty using just a multiplexer inside of fbterm, so it is or was possible somehow. Unfortunately a lot of projects that made that possible and better seem to be dead, though the subject has been discussed not that long ago. For people that don't care about multitasking and that can live in the links browser's graphical mode, it's already pretty viable. Only for peak mememalists though. For people that think multitasking is bloat.
@@censoredterminalautism4073 What does multitasking have to do with graphical window managers? Jobs and job control exist, as well as terminal multiplexers and, if that’s not enough, often also multiple TTYs.
@@humm535 Try to run fbv, links -g (in graphical mode, Links supports images, and it has mouse support in the TTY, which is pretty neat), NetSurf, fbpdf or mpv or any program that runs in the framebuffer inside of a multiplexer (in the case of links, it's generally compiled with that option disabled, so make sure to use a version that supports that). It didn't work last time I tried. Not saying that it's impossible because I have seen images of it being done, so clearly a few people figured it out. I have seen GTK programs running that way as well, I think in an image in a pdf that was used in a presentation. Multiple TTYs are fine, but not ideal.
@@censoredterminalautism4073 Still, job control exists. You can easily switch between them.
I'm still with QimgV - I like a context menu.
for me the best part is it works in wayland
What about poor women?
I just use Icat (a Kitten of the Kitty terminal)
icat
I should do a proper look at kitty
@@BrodieRobertson I look forward to seeing that, Kitty rocks.
meh....
.....feh
for bulk commads:
D { command(-cat | xargs -I {} trash-put {}); }
Its roughly 3x more code than sxiv aswell
Weird metric for such a small application. GBs are so cheap those days.
It's a difference of about 240mb which if you're on a really old system might be valuable but in my case not so much
@@BrodieRobertson ok, I fought that it's smaller. Check out the grub plugin if you will review kitty.
Yeah you got a monster rig