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For others whose Linux experience is almost exclusively on the command line, xv is a desktop image viewer, capable of some basic edits: https://en.wikipedia.or

For others whose Linux experience is almost exclusively on the command line, xv is a desktop image viewer, capable of some basic edits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)

mikestorrent 7mo ago
Ironically, as Linux makes more inroads on the desktop, traditional Linux desktop software is falling away. A lot of it is still super useful!
- anthk 7mo ago
  Imagemagick and GraphicsMagick have a GUI with the 'display' program which can do tons of things XV did in a libre way.
  - mikepurvis 7mo ago
    One small joy in switching back to Windows after almost two decades of Mac OS was getting to have Irfanview again.
cloudbonsai 7mo ago
Here is a user manual of xv that contains prenty of screenshots: https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pdf https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pd... I think the "Miscellaneous Ramblings" on the final page really illustrates the color of his personality: Section 13.3: Miscellaneous Ramblings And, of course, thanks to everyone else. If you contributed to the developement of xv in some way, and I somehow forgot to put you in the big list, my humble apologies. Documentation and careful record- keeping are not my strong suits. “Heck,” why do you think it takes me a year and a half to come up with a minor new release? Because, while I love to add new features to the code, I dread documenting the dumb things. Besides, we all know that writing the documentation is the hardest part of any program. Particularly when the good folks at id Software insisted upon releasing DOOM II... And finally, thanks to all the folks who’ve written in from hundreds of sites world-wide. You’re the ones who’ve made xv a real success. (Well, that’s not actually true. My love of nifty user-interfaces, all the wonderful code I’ve gotten from the folks listed above, and the fact that xv actually serves a useful purpose (albeit “displaying pictures of naked women”) are the things that have made xv a real success. You folks who’ve written in have given me a way to measure how successful xv is.) But I digress. Thanks! By the way, when I last counted (in October 1992), xv was in use at 180 different Universities, and dozens of businesses, goverment agencies, and the like, in 27 countries on 6 of the 7 continents. Since then, I’ve received messages from hundreds of new sites. And xv has been spotted in Antartica, bringing the total to 7 of 7 continents, and allowing me to claim that xv is, in fact, truly global software. That’s probably a good thing. Does anybody know if there’s a Unix workstation in the Space Shuttle?... :-)

mikestorrent 7mo ago

Ironically, as Linux makes more inroads on the desktop, traditional Linux desktop software is falling away. A lot of it is still super useful!

anthk 7mo ago
Imagemagick and GraphicsMagick have a GUI with the 'display' program which can do tons of things XV did in a libre way.
- mikepurvis 7mo ago
  One small joy in switching back to Windows after almost two decades of Mac OS was getting to have Irfanview again.

cloudbonsai 7mo ago

Here is a user manual of xv that contains prenty of screenshots: https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pdf https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pd... I think the "Miscellaneous Ramblings" on the final page really illustrates the color of his personality: Section 13.3: Miscellaneous Ramblings And, of course, thanks to everyone else. If you contributed to the developement of xv in some way, and I somehow forgot to put you in the big list, my humble apologies. Documentation and careful record- keeping are not my strong suits. “Heck,” why do you think it takes me a year and a half to come up with a minor new release? Because, while I love to add new features to the code, I dread documenting the dumb things. Besides, we all know that writing the documentation is the hardest part of any program. Particularly when the good folks at id Software insisted upon releasing DOOM II... And finally, thanks to all the folks who’ve written in from hundreds of sites world-wide. You’re the ones who’ve made xv a real success. (Well, that’s not actually true. My love of nifty user-interfaces, all the wonderful code I’ve gotten from the folks listed above, and the fact that xv actually serves a useful purpose (albeit “displaying pictures of naked women”) are the things that have made xv a real success. You folks who’ve written in have given me a way to measure how successful xv is.) But I digress. Thanks! By the way, when I last counted (in October 1992), xv was in use at 180 different Universities, and dozens of businesses, goverment agencies, and the like, in 27 countries on 6 of the 7 continents. Since then, I’ve received messages from hundreds of new sites. And xv has been spotted in Antartica, bringing the total to 7 of 7 continents, and allowing me to claim that xv is, in fact, truly global software. That’s probably a good thing. Does anybody know if there’s a Unix workstation in the Space Shuttle?... :-)