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cpcnw

Member

Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 41

cli image viewer

hi - is there a way to view a .png file or .jpg file in the console?

I have installed fbshot which creates a .png from the framebuffer and want to view back those .png files in the same framebuffer?

can convert to jpg with ;

png2pnm img.png | cjpeg > img.jpg

but how to view?

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: cli image viewer

fbi displays png,tiff,jpg in kernel framebuffer.

[c]# tazpkg -gi fbida[/c]

To test system I edit grub menu kernel line with vga=791 screen=text to activate frame buffer and remove slim from /etc/rcS.conf RUN_DAEMONS= to boot to console.

After login cd to picture files:

[c]fbi *png[/c] <= displays every png in cwd,advance with space bar,pgup,pgdn.

Using the -t <# seconds> switch for slide show.

Add slim back to /etc/rcS.conf RUN_DAEMONS= after hald if you want to auto-start X on next boot.

cpcnw

Member

Registered: 2013-01-28

Posts: 41

Re: cli image viewer

Had to load freetype and fontconfig but yep, the above worked

I had actually tried to make install fbida from src but ran into too many probs!

Thanks a mill - please mark SOLVED!