[![builds.sr.ht status](https://builds.sr.ht/~exec64/imv.svg)](https://builds.sr.ht/~exec64/imv?) imv - X11/Wayland Image Viewer ============================== `imv` is a command line image viewer intended for use with tiling window managers. Features -------- * Native Wayland and X11 support * Support for dozens of image formats including: * PNG * JPEG * Animated GIFs * SVG * TIFF * Various RAW formats * Photoshop PSD files * Configurable key bindings and behaviour * Highly scriptable with IPC via imv-msg Packages -------- [![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/imv.svg)](https://repology.org/project/imv/versions) Example Usage ------------- The following examples are a quick illustration of how you can use imv. For detailed documentation see the man page. # Opening images imv image1.png another_image.jpeg a_directory # Opening a directory recursively imv -r Photos # Opening images via stdin find . -type f -name "*.svg" | imv # Open an image fullscreen imv -f image.jpeg # Viewing images in a random order find . -type f -name "*.png" | shuf | imv # Viewing images from stdin curl http://somesi.te/img.png | imv - # Viewing multiple images from the web curl -Osw '%{filename_effective}\n' 'http://www.example.com/[1-10].jpg' | imv ### Slideshow imv can be used to display slideshows. You can set the number of seconds to show each image for with the `-t` option at start up, or you can configure it at runtime using the `t` and `T` hotkeys to increase and decrease the image display time, respectively. To cycle through a folder of pictures, showing each one for 10 seconds: imv -t 10 ~/Pictures/London #### Custom configuration imv's key bindings can be customised to trigger custom behaviour: [binds] # Delete and then close an open image by pressing 'X' = exec rm "$imv_current_file"; close # Rotate the currently open image by 90 degrees by pressing 'R' = exec mogrify -rotate 90 "$imv_current_file" # Use dmenu as a prompt for tagging the current image u = exec echo "$imv_current_file" >> ~/tags/$(ls ~/tags | dmenu -p "tag") ### Scripting With the default bindings, imv can be used to select images in a pipeline by using the `p` hotkey to print the current image's path to stdout. The `-l` flag can also be used to tell imv to list the remaining paths on exit for a "open set of images, close unwanted ones with `x`, then quit imv to pass the remaining images through" workflow. Key bindings can be customised to run arbitrary shell commands. Environment variables are exported to expose imv's state to scripts run by it. These scripts can in turn modify imv's behaviour by invoking `imv-msg` with `$imv_pid`. For example: #!/usr/bin/bash imv "$@" & imv_pid = $! while true; do # Some custom logic # ... # Close all open files imv-msg $imv_pid close all # Open some new files imv-msg $imv_pid open ~/new_path # Run another script against the currently open file imv-msg $imv_pid exec another-script.sh '$imv_current_file' done Installation ------------ ### Dependencies | Library | Version | Notes | |---------------:|:---------|------------------------------------------------| | pthreads | | Required. | | xkbcommon | | Required. | | pangocairo | | Required. | | icu | | Required. | | X11 | | Optional. Required for X11 support. | | GLU | | Optional. Required for X11 support. | | xcb | | Optional. Required for X11 support. | | xkbcommon-x11 | | Optional. Required for X11 support. | | wayland-client | | Optional. Required for Wayland support. | | wayland-egl | | Optional. Required for Wayland support. | | EGL | | Optional. Required for Wayland support. | | FreeImage | | Optional. Provides PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, etc. | | libtiff | | Optional. Provides TIFF support. | | libpng | | Optional. Provides PNG support. | | libjpeg-turbo | | Optional. Provides JPEG support. | | librsvg | >=v2.44 | Optional. Provides SVG support. | | libnsgif | | Optional. Provides GIF support. | Dependencies are determined by which backends and window systems are enabled when building `imv`. You can find a summary of which backends are available and control which ones `imv` is built with in [config.mk](config.mk) $ $EDITOR config.mk $ make # make install Macro `PREFIX` controls installation prefix. If more control over installation paths is required, macros `BINPREFIX`, `MANPREFIX` and `DATAPREFIX` are available. Eg. to install `imv` to home directory, run: $ BINPREFIX=~/bin PREFIX=~/.local make install License ------- `imv`'s source is published under the terms of the [MIT](LICENSE) license.