On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ian Collier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:28:59PM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > > they're just going to the screen either way right now - I don't know > > offhand if xli is writing to stderr or stdout. (I am certain that it > > doesn't return a useful exit code, since I have tested that more than once > > - so there's no good way to check if it failed to display an image). > > The output is going to stdout as far as I can tell (even if there's an > error). > > > But I'll take a look at the other site Ian mentioned - my copies of xli do > > not display png files; gimp is too bloated to want to use for this > > purpose, and xzgv doesn't satisfy me either). > > Never heard of xzgv. However, there's obviously xv (depending on
Like xli, but has a thumbnail/directory selector. It tends to use a lot of screen real-estate though. > whether you like the licence), and the other choice which springs > to mind is "display" (which comes with ImageMagick). xv tends to display the same stuff as xli (similar libraries). > xv doesn't seem to come with Red Hat any more. Shame, but you can still > get the SRPM from Red Hat 6.2 powertools. I usually just copy it from another system (I seem to recall having a copy of the source - may have built it once or twice). > xli has never come with Red Hat, which is even more of a shame. > However, the aforementioned site has an SRPM for xli-1.17 which > does indeed support PNG. That's useful. Thinking back, another problem with xli is that it won't do color on the high-color displays. -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
