FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer(www.nongnu.org)
48 pointsby Mr_Minderbinder3 hours ago7 comments
  • lrvick2 hours ago
    You can also use mplayer with "-fp" to play video on the frambuffer as well.

    I have gone weeks at a time without using a graphical desktop at all thanks to these tools.

    • xattt11 minutes ago
      Do you browse with framebuffer links too? :)
    • hktan hour ago
      This is a great tip, do you have others? I've tried to ditch graphical desktop envs and failed pretty miserably on media consumption and browsing before.
      • redsocksfan45an hour ago
        Don't use mplayer for this. Use mpv --vo=gpu --gpu-context=drm

        This gives you hardware acceleration without a desktop environment.

    • antisolan hour ago
      yep! and ffplay will detect your situation and run on the framebuffer if that seems appropriate. I'm sure there's arguments to explicitly tell it to do that, but I've never used them :)
  • pjmlpan hour ago
    More like UNIX and MS-DOS concepts.
  • globalnode38 minutes ago
    this wont work with wayland will it? has to be a raw tty?
  • anthkan hour ago
    I think this came with fbgs too; and fbpdf2 it's a better fbpdf (no more slow GhostScript convertings), it just calls poppler/MuPDF libraries.
  • sylware3 hours ago
    Should it be DRM nowdays?
    • whizzter2 hours ago
      I think the framebuffer devices is a least common denominator that is available on even miniscule or emulated hardware whilst anything above thats starts requiring a whole lot more infrastructure.

      And honestly, you don't need much more for an image viewer.

      • antisol2 hours ago
        This is exactly right - you can get a framebuffer on just about anything, including pretty much any video card made since about 1990, and also more fun things like the little i2c display that your toaster has. No need to restrict relatively simple software like fbi/fim to running on less hardware by using drm.
        • anthkan hour ago
          I used to play videos with the framebuffer just fine and read PDF's with fbpdf2, among watching TV with fbtv and the like. I didn't miss nearly anything, as most games under SDL1/2 can render into FB with

                export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=fbcon
          or

                export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=kmsdrm
          And tons of games too, such as Supertux2, Crispy Doom, SDLQuake, FreeCiv-SDL...
          • sylware13 minutes ago
            This is what I meant: kmsdrm.
          • antisolan hour ago
            another fun one if you're in an exotic situation and don't have a framebuffer (or if you just want to have some fun by making your games to look worse):

            export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=aalib

            unfortunately it's only SDL1, though

  • kevinten102 hours ago
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  • mnkylikeskbd2 hours ago
    Related to this are the (rather poorly named) kitty terminals graphics protocol: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

    Yeah it is playful and all, but telling your colleagues to use "kitty" doesn't sound very professional. You might disagree with this, but that doesn't change the overall perception and general take in corporate world.

    • bschwindHNan hour ago
      Did you just... make a new account just to say the word "kitty" is "unprofessional"?
    • opan2 hours ago
      The name "kitty" is nothing compared to the attitude and crimes of the dev (destroying bitmap support and telling people to buy new monitors). I will never use, support, or recommend kitty.
      • moritonalan hour ago
        Interesting you say the Dev isn't a great person, because I had a hunch when I saw the use of the Lena photo on the front page (https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/it-s-time-to-retire-...). It's interesting how small gestures present how someone sees the world.
        • miki_oomiri32 minutes ago
          Man… you guys are ruthless. The dude provides a free tool to use, and used a cute named, have opinions about code, and used the most common used photo on his webpage, and suddenly he gets insulted on a public forum by strangers. He's not perfect. Nobody is. He has opinions, and might not even know about Lenna.

          You people are gross.

          • patates5 minutes ago
            As a reply to this comment:

            > Interesting you say the Dev isn't a great person, because I had a hunch when I saw the use of the Lena photo on the front page

            You say:

            > you guys are ruthless (...) You people are gross.

            I'm not saying you don't have a point. I didn't know enough to be sensitive on the Lena topic once either, and could have been the target of the above comment. So I think, perhaps, those could have been formulated more constructively.

            However, I must say the same for your comment too. Can't we all be friends here? :)

        • hagbard_c21 minutes ago
          Sure, you can 'see' how 'someone sees the world' just by him or her not abiding to the current narrative. You do realise that the 'Lena' image has been the standard image for these purposes for decades and that some people might not consider the (politically charged) crusade to suddenly ban it from all such use as being the most pressing issue?

          I think what you wrote here says more about how you see the world than how Goyal sees it.

        • redsocksfan45an hour ago
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      • gbinan hour ago
        A crime?! Please people I don't even know what happened here but removing some bitmap support is a crime now for a maintainer of an open source piece of code? You are not happy with the project then where is your fork so we can assign some crimes to you and get out of our way to not recommend it? (Note: I am not affiliated at all with the project and I don't even know what happened but you really need to take a breather, no one forced you to use kitty)
        • opan44 minutes ago
          >where is your fork

          Luckily there are better terminal emulators out there, such as foot, so a fork is not necessary.

    • roer2 hours ago
      The graphics protocol might be relevant, but I fail to see how the rest of your comment is.
    • dspillett38 minutes ago
      As much as there are issues people have with kitty's creator/maintainer, which are easy to search for so I'll not reiterate them, choosing a slightly cutesy name is hardly a massively unprofessional act. It isn't like it is called Completely Uncomfortably Named TTY or similar… If you are so uptight that you can't cope with the word “kitty” being used to refer to a protocol, then maybe call it “kay-eye-tee-tee-why” instead?

      > but that doesn't change the overall perception and general take in corporate world.

      It may come as a shock to you, but many don't really care about the feelings of the corporate world, away from our day jobs. Heck, some of us struggle to care in our day jobs! Luckily my corporate overlords and immediate management are not quite so sensitive.

    • Chaosvexan hour ago
      Wait until you find out about Git.