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I will use xv to the day I die. Great for remotely viewing / editing images (e.g. headless EC2 instances). Has features I can't even find in a modern image edit

I will use xv to the day I die. Great for remotely viewing / editing images (e.g. headless EC2 instances). Has features I can't even find in a modern image editor. http://www.trilon.com/xv/ http://www.trilon.com/xv/

Beltalowda 4y ago
It's kind of amazing how the last version from 1994 still compiles and runs with just a very tiny source code patch today. It's unfortunate that modified copies "may not be distributed without prior consent of the author", killing any possibility of a "neoxv" fork.
- hulitu 4y ago
  > It's unfortunate that modified copies "may not be distributed without prior consent of the author", killing any possibility of a "neoxv" fork. Well, just look at what happened to xsnow. I installed Slackware 15.0 and my config automatically starts xsnow. I wanted to see why it hasn't started, only to discover a configuration window under my xterm, without borders or titlebar. My next reaction was: removepkg xsnow, fetch xsnow-1.42, xmkmf, make, make install.
lizknope 4y ago
I still use xv to print maps and various screenshots. I take a screenshot then xv filename then right click, print, greyscale, Max, Ok It changes the colors to greyscale for my non-color laser printer, scales it perfectly to fit the 8.5x11" paper, and prints. I remember in 1997 during the first Mars Pathfinder rover mission that NASA was basically doing a live screen sharing session from someone's desktop and they used "xv" to load the image. I was 27 but I grew up obsessed with space exploration. Well I still love it, but at the bottom it said "UNREGISTERED COPY" and people on Usenet were talking about how NASA didn't register their copy. I think they did later but I was just so excited to see xv on national television.
- waynecochran 4y ago
  Funny. I did register my copy. I sent the author some money and then, as directed, I changed the source code that says "UNREGISTERED COPY" to "REGISTERED." The folks at NASA might have not bothered editing the string.
tux 4y ago
You can also try feh (https://feh.finalrewind.org/ https://feh.finalrewind.org/) feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. And sxiv (https://github.com/muennich/sxiv https://github.com/muennich/sxiv) Simple X Image Viewer (but this one was archived on github since Nov. 9th, 2022) and now replaced with nsxiv (https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv) Neo (or New or Not) Simple (or Small or Suckless) X Image Viewer.
- waynecochran 4y ago
  I will try it out...

Beltalowda 4y ago

It's kind of amazing how the last version from 1994 still compiles and runs with just a very tiny source code patch today. It's unfortunate that modified copies "may not be distributed without prior consent of the author", killing any possibility of a "neoxv" fork.

hulitu 4y ago
> It's unfortunate that modified copies "may not be distributed without prior consent of the author", killing any possibility of a "neoxv" fork. Well, just look at what happened to xsnow. I installed Slackware 15.0 and my config automatically starts xsnow. I wanted to see why it hasn't started, only to discover a configuration window under my xterm, without borders or titlebar. My next reaction was: removepkg xsnow, fetch xsnow-1.42, xmkmf, make, make install.

lizknope 4y ago

I still use xv to print maps and various screenshots. I take a screenshot then xv filename then right click, print, greyscale, Max, Ok It changes the colors to greyscale for my non-color laser printer, scales it perfectly to fit the 8.5x11" paper, and prints. I remember in 1997 during the first Mars Pathfinder rover mission that NASA was basically doing a live screen sharing session from someone's desktop and they used "xv" to load the image. I was 27 but I grew up obsessed with space exploration. Well I still love it, but at the bottom it said "UNREGISTERED COPY" and people on Usenet were talking about how NASA didn't register their copy. I think they did later but I was just so excited to see xv on national television.

waynecochran 4y ago
Funny. I did register my copy. I sent the author some money and then, as directed, I changed the source code that says "UNREGISTERED COPY" to "REGISTERED." The folks at NASA might have not bothered editing the string.

tux 4y ago

You can also try feh (https://feh.finalrewind.org/ https://feh.finalrewind.org/) feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. And sxiv (https://github.com/muennich/sxiv https://github.com/muennich/sxiv) Simple X Image Viewer (but this one was archived on github since Nov. 9th, 2022) and now replaced with nsxiv (https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv) Neo (or New or Not) Simple (or Small or Suckless) X Image Viewer.

waynecochran 4y ago
I will try it out...