seejpeg question ....

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:00:34 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 7:53:53am] 530 % seejpeg Desktop/raspberry-pi-netbsd.jpg
> You must be the owner of the current console to use svgalib.
> Not running in a graphics capable console,
> and unable to find one.
> svgalib: ark: Assuming normal VGA DAC.
> You must be the owner of the current console to use svgalib.
> Not running in a graphics capable console,
> and unable to find one.
> svgalib: can't open /dev/console
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 7:54:06am] 531 % uname -a
> FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu 
> Jul 10 23:44:39 UTC 2014 
> root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 7:58:32am] 532 %
> 
> 
> Obviously a nogo. It wasn't installed as an option under XFCE to view 
> that file when I double-clicked on it ... What do I need to do to get 
> this program to work for me, either under XFCE or from CLI (tcsh under 
> rxvt from XFCE) ?

Several things:

First, this program is using svgalib, which means it allows
graphics display without X, or to say it in a different way:
This is an image viewer for the console. But svgalib isn't
fully supported on FreeBSD. This program is _not_ an X program.
It won't work the way you assume.

Second: If you use XFCE (all capitals), one might get the
impression that you're refering to the CDE-lookalike XFCE 3.
The new Xfce desktop (version 4) uses a capital X, and then
just fce in lowercase. :-)

If you're searching for a simple image viewer, try xzgv. You
can use it as a standalone program or call it from a desktop
association (i. e., for supported image file formats). You
could also try xv (very popular) and "display" (part of the
ImageMagic port). But with Xfce, you already probably have
half of Gnome installed, so you could also check out eog. ;-)

Personally, I like xzgv, and I have it associated with image
types to "start" them from within the Midnight Commander (just
press ENTER on an image, and it will be displayed, scaled to
the window size properly).

Example: interactively browse a directory in fullscreen:

	% xzgv -tzf ~/cam/2014-10-01/

Only show one image:

	% xzgv -z /tmp/someimage.jpg

Browse specified images:

	% xzgv -tz /scratch/test/bla*jpg my_*_nose.png bla.gif

This viewer has nice keyboard and mouse support, its older
versions (last usable version: 0.8_9) can also dynamically
adjust brightness, contrast and other image properties. It
can rotate and zoom. It also supports thumbnails. See if you
like it. Just a suggestion.



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