On 05/24/2017 06:57 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > >> I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian >> repositories catch up to upstream and/or fix the problem in Stretch. >> Been working just fine, with its limitations. It's better than a black >> desktop. :) I had to read the man page a couple of times and try it >> another couple of times to make it work, but work it does. > > I prefer to keep feh off my systems; its description is a lie. > > feh - image viewer and cataloguer > > It's an editor that has no concept of a buffer, but just scribbles > over the original file. And, IIRC, the error message, when thwarted > by a read-only file, is incorrect: it blames the permissions of > the directory, not the file. > This is a real problem, and I have no intention of using it for any other reason than as a temporary fix to the MATE desktop background issue. There are much better applications for viewing/editing pictures (Eye of Gnome/MATE, and GIMP come to mind). I expect that as soon as the background issue is resolved, I'll probably remove feh from my system as well, as it has no other use for me. > Cheers, > David. >
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