[ale] Image programs for Linux?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:46, Jay Loden wrote:
> What's the command to invoke xv ?  I don't have any "xv" on my machine, but I 
> do have imagemagick installed.  Is it maybe not included because of the 
> closed source nature? 

xv is no longer installed by any distro as it is not any form of open
source. It is free for personal use.

Yes, it works. 
Yes, it's ugly.
Yes, it appears to have been possibly abandoned by its author as the
last update was 1999. He waiting on an afordable LZW license.
> 
> (I'm running mandrake 10)
> 
> -Jay
> 
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 01:42 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Jay Loden wrote:
> > > I'm a hardcore Linux user, won't be going back to using Windows ever, if
> > > I can help it, but there is ONE thing that I just haven't found for Linux
> > > that I had on Windows, and that's Irfanview.
> > >
> > > Irfanview, for those who don't know it, is a small, fast image editor and
> > > viewer for Windows.  It's tiny, and fast, yet it lets you do a whole host
> > > of image editing, like resizing, renaming, slideshow creation, more than
> > > I can even list.  Does anyone out there know of anything similar for
> > > Linux?
> > >
> > > Kuickshow at least is a fast image viewer, and lets you do an extremely
> > > limited number of things (convert an image to a new format, for example)
> > > but I need something that at least lets me do simple resize, rotate,
> > > crop, and some ehancements and preferably some filters.  (irfanview has a
> > > small set of nice filters like greyscale and whatnot, some image
> > > sharpeners, and so forth).
> > >
> > > Before someone says it, I know the GIMP can do a lot of these things,
> > > BUT, the GIMP is a lot heavier than what I want, and not the most
> > > convenient tool for the job.  It's like opening Photoshop just to resize
> > > your digital photos - overkill.
> >
> > xv
> > display which comes with imagemagick.  imagemagick has a number of other
> > tools as well.
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