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imv — CLI image viewer for wayland and X11 aimed at tiling window managers. Handles multiple formats inclu

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Problem

How to use the imv command: CLI image viewer for wayland and X11 aimed at tiling window managers. Handles multiple formats including Photoshop (PSD). More information: <https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/>.

Solution

imv — CLI image viewer for wayland and X11 aimed at tiling window managers. Handles multiple formats including Photoshop (PSD). More information: <https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/>.

View multiple images:

imv {{path/to/image1.ext path/to/image2.ext ...}}

View in fullscreen mode:

imv -f {{path/to/image.ext}}

View images [r]ecursively from a path:

imv -r --slideshow {{path/to/directory}}

Open multiple images via stdin:

find . -type f -name "{{*.svg}}" | imv

Make a slideshow from a directory showing each image for 10 seconds:

imv -t 10 {{path/to/directory}}

View multiple images from the web:

curl {{[-Osw|--remote-name --silent --write-out]}} '%{filename_effective}\n' '{{http://www.example.com/[1-10].jpg}}' | imv

Code Snippets

View multiple images

imv {{path/to/image1.ext path/to/image2.ext ...}}

View in fullscreen mode

imv -f {{path/to/image.ext}}

View images [r]ecursively from a path

imv -r --slideshow {{path/to/directory}}

Open multiple images via `stdin`

find . -type f -name "{{*.svg}}" | imv

Make a slideshow from a directory showing each image for 10 seconds

imv -t 10 {{path/to/directory}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/imv

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