Fullscreen mode in xv

[Anton Shepelev]

xv seems an advanced and time-honoured image viewer, yet I can't
seem do with the most basic thing expected of an image viewer: to
view the photographs in a directory, sequentially one at a time,
in a "full-screen" mode, that is when all I see on screen is the
image and (if unavoidable) the window boundaries around the edges
of the screen, but nothing else. Can xv do it, i.e. hide its control
window, make the image window the size of the screen, and fit the
image to the dimensions of the screen, with horisonal or vertical
black bars where the aspect radio does not match?

I think xv is still the default image viewer on Slackware, so the
readers of alt.os.linux.slackware may be more regular users.

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I have not
used xv for anything other than cropping images in years. The fast
startup and keyboard control mean I can open/crop/save/exit an image
faster than gimp can count it's plugins at startup.

<tangent>
If you still scan negative film, you might be in interested
in RawThereappe -- and huge raw processor with a film-inversion
algorithm.
</tangent>

For image viewing, I use feh, which can do that easily, but does not
have as many editing features as xv.
feh -F directoryname
Feh is not as old as xv, but it turns 25 this year, so it's no spring
chicken.

Thank you, I will try feh.

[#Paul]

Post by Anton Shepelev

Feh is not as old as xv, but it turns 25 this year, so it's no spring
chicken.

Thank you, I will try feh.

Hmm. Feh doesn't seem to honor "-display". :-/

#Paul