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Clean up readme (#330) 

Co-authored-by: NRK <nrk@disroot.org>
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv/pulls/330
Reviewed-by: NRK <nrk@disroot.org>
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**Neo (or New or Not) Simple (or Small or Suckless) X Image Viewer**
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nsxiv is a fork of now unmaintained [sxiv](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv)
with the purpose of being a drop-in replacement of sxiv, maintaining it and
adding simple, sensible features. nsxiv is free software licensed under GPLv2
and aims to be easy to modify and customize.
nsxiv is a fork of the now-unmaintained [sxiv](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv)
with the purpose of being a (mostly) drop-in replacement for sxiv, maintaining its
interface and adding simple, sensible features. nsxiv is free software licensed
under GPLv2 and aims to be easy to modify and customize.
Please file a bug report if something does not work as documented or
expected in *this* repository, after making sure you are using the latest
release of nsxiv. Contributions are welcome, see
[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md#contribution-guideline) for details.
Please file a bug report if something does not work as documented or expected on
[Codeberg] after making sure you are using the latest release. Contributions
are welcome, see [CONTRIBUTING.md] to get started.
[Codeberg]: https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv/issues/new
[CONTRIBUTING.md]: CONTRIBUTING.md#contribution-guideline
Features
--------
* Basic image operations, e.g. zooming, panning, rotating
* Customizable key and mouse button mappings (in *config.h*)
* Script-ability via `key-handler`
* Basic image operations like zooming, panning, rotating
* Basic support for animated/multi-frame images
* Thumbnail mode: grid of selectable previews of all images
* Ability to cache thumbnails for fast re-loading
* Basic support for animated/multi-frame images (GIF/WebP)
* Display image information in status bar
* Customizable window title
* Automatically refreshing modified images
* Customizable keyboard and mouse mappings via `config.h`
* Scriptability via `key-handler`
* Displaying image information in status bar via `image-info` & `thumb-info`
* Customizable window title via `win-title`
Screenshots
-----------
**Image mode: (Default colors)**
**Image mode with default colors:**
![Image](https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/pages/raw/branch/master/img/image.png "Image mode")
**Thumbnail mode: (Custom colors)**
**Thumbnail mode with custom colors:**
![Thumb](https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/pages/raw/branch/master/img/thumb.png "Thumb mode")
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The following dependencies are optional.
* inotify : Used for auto-reloading images on change.
Disabled via `HAVE_INOTIFY=0`
* libXft, freetype2, fontconfig : Used for the status bar.
Disabled via `HAVE_LIBFONTS=0`
* giflib : Used for animated gif playback.
* `inotify`<sup>ℹ</sup>: Used for auto-reloading images on change.
Disabled via `HAVE_INOTIFY=0`.
* `libXft`, `freetype2`, `fontconfig`: Used for the status bar.
Disabled via `HAVE_LIBFONTS=0`.
* `giflib`: Used for animated gif playback.
Disabled via `HAVE_LIBGIF=0`.
* libexif : Used for auto-orientation and exif thumbnails.
Disable via `HAVE_LIBEXIF=0`
* libwebp : Used for animated webp playback.
(NOTE: animated webp also requires Imlib2 v1.7.5 or above)
* `libexif`: Used for auto-orientation and exif thumbnails.
Disable via `HAVE_LIBEXIF=0`.
* `libwebp`: Used for animated webp playback.
(***NOTE***: animated webp also requires Imlib2 v1.7.5 or above)
Disabled via `HAVE_LIBWEBP=0`.
Please make sure to install the corresponding development packages in case that
you want to build nsxiv on a distribution with separate runtime and development
packages (e.g. \*-dev on Debian).
\[ℹ]: [inotify][] is a Linux-specific API for monitoring filesystem changes.
It's not natively available on `*BSD` systems but can be enabed via installing
and linking against [libinotify-kqueue][].
[inotify]: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html
[libinotify-kqueue]: https://github.com/libinotify-kqueue/libinotify-kqueue
Building
--------
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Usage
-----
Please see man page for information on how to use nsxiv. To do so, execute the
following after the installation:
Refer to the man page for the documentation:
$ man nsxiv
F.A.Q
-----
F.A.Q.
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* Can I open remote urls with nsxiv? <br>
Yes, see [nsxiv-url](https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv-extra/src/branch/master/scripts/nsxiv-url)
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You can view the changelog [here](CHANGELOG.md)
Similar projects
----------------
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Below are a couple other lesser known projects not listed in suckless rocks.
* [MAGE](https://github.com/explosion-mental/mage) :
* [MAGE](https://github.com/explosion-mental/mage):
A smaller/more-suckless version of sxiv.
* [div](https://github.com/TAAPArthur/div) :
* [div](https://github.com/TAAPArthur/div):
Minimal and extensive, aimed at C devs willing to build their own features.
* [mpv-image-viewer](https://github.com/occivink/mpv-image-viewer) :
* [mpv-image-viewer](https://github.com/occivink/mpv-image-viewer):
Lua script to turn mpv into an image viewer. Supports thumbnails via
[mpv-gallery-view](https://github.com/occivink/mpv-gallery-view).