Subject: Basic photo viewing/editing for Xfce?

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:12:55 -0500 (EST), Chris Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
> 
> >> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 12:35:25 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> >> By your personal experience, what software do you use for photos: a 
> >> convenient viewer/slideshow, and a basic editor (cropping, 
> >> rotating...)? Gimp would be an overkill.
> >
> > I am using xv since 1990 and think it's still the
> > best for viewing and basic tasks.
> 
> A big "me too" on xv. It does basic editing: crop, rotate, mirror, 
> scale, gamma, probably more.

And I (ab)use it to set the X desktop wallpaper (backdrop)
independently from window manager or desktop system (which
I don't use). :-)



> For slideshows, I use feh. They are both 
> old, therefore lightweight and fast.

Sadly, many other programs bearing those properties have
been updated and disimproved, so their names shall be
forgotten in this context. ;-)



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