On Tue 30 May 2017 at 04:15:10 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/29/2017 10:55 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > >On 05/29/2017 01:19 PM, Brian wrote: > >> > >>There are legitimate concerns about aspects of feh's behaviour, not > >>sufficient as yet to prevent my recommending it, but the topic prompted > >>a bit of exploring. So I took a look at Debian's sxiv in Stretch. > >> > >>sxiv is somewhat similar to feh. It has an installed size a third of > >>feh's (an advantage?) and is fast at rendering and responsive. Nothing > >>scientific, but thumbnails (without caching) seem to render quicker than > >>feh does it. One can easily switch between thumbnail view and picture > >>display. The upstream developer is also active, which is never a bad > >>thing. > >> > >>Downsides? Definitely. But this post is an advocacy one for those Debian > >>users who just want to view their pictures without installing tons of > >>GNOME dependencies or like to be able to configure things for their > >>particular use case. > >> > >>I am now torn between feh and sxiv. That is the problem with threads > >>like this, which promote delving into available packages and having to > >>make a choice. :) > >> > >For me, though, the important aspect is will sxiv change the desktop > >background like feh will? > > I found no mention of anything like that in its man page. > YMMV
Nope. There are lots of wallpaper setters available. You can also integrate the tool of your choice via the key handler. https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/issues/192 -- Brian.