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Howto: Open Images in a Linux Console using fbi, a console based Image Viewer

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http://linuxers.org – Linux Console is not all about a black background with huge white, grey or green fonts. While working solely on console for a week I learned a lot about console based softwares. Remember the console based IM, Finch. It was built using nCurses but this time I will tell you about the magic of Frame buffers, a hardware-independent graphics layer which makes image viewing possible on Linux Consoles. Its a common misconception that Image viewing is only possible in X windows, the software that provides a GU (General)

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Submitted by dalinux on 06/20/2010 – Made popular on 06/20/2010

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Another day, another command line/Console based application. Just to refresh your memory, last time we told you about a Linux framebuffer Image viewer, Fbi, that lets you view images without a X server.

I don't know in which scenario should I suggest you to use a console based IM client but I came across Finch for the first time while trying to save my laptop's battery life during power cuts by shifting to old school console . I am not sure whether my basic aim was fulfilled or not but it was fun seeing what ncurses could do :).

Joining the array of Linux game console attempts is GCW Zero, an open-source game hand-held console.

Console background images 3 years 23 weeks ago

Hello,

I'm wondering how SuSE goes about setting that slick background image in the console?

For the record, I'm not talking about a console inside X, I mean when you log in at the command line:

Thanks,

Monte

feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. Unlike most other viewers, it does not have a fancy GUI, but simply displays images.

open images in separate tty 2 years 43 weeks ago

don't ask why, but this is what I am looking to accomplish:

through a logged in SSH terminal, I want to be able to open an image in the console (runlevel 3) of tty1 (tty1 can be logged in or not, doesn't matter)

Is there a console application equivalent to Total Commander's fast file viewer (F3)?

Total Commander's (Windows app) F3 viewer can instantly "open" files of any size. The file contents is only read from the disk if you need it: that is, if you scroll or search inside the file.

Is there an alternative app for Linux/Ubuntu that will do the same, but from the console?

So, the linux "top" command has the real time-like loop with console output (nothing fancy), but it uses non-blocking console input which doesn't display typed character in the command line. How it's done? Is there any library for it, do they use threads?

Set console width in c++ 51 weeks 6 days ago

In windoze, the console width was always 80, so it was easy to make console-guis like cmus and links. In linux, however the width can be changed. This really messed up console programs i ported from windows to linux. is there any way to set the console width? even system() commands would do. I know about "stty cols", but it doesnt resize the window.