86a83c1ec5
Originally we stopped doing links in the CHANGELOG since it harmed
readability when reading the raw markdown file. However we can use
reference styles links instead.
* Pros
- Doesn't harm readability.
- We can link to proper thread on the proper repo (`CodeBerg/nsxiv`
for newer threads, `nsxiv-record` for wiped ones)
- The links will be clickable on the [webpage]
- Both GitHub and Codeberg support reference style links, as well as
lowdown (which we use for building the webpage)
[webpage]: https://nsxiv.codeberg.page/changelog/
* Cons
- Slightly higher maintainance burden.
- Larger file size.
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv/pulls/325
Reviewed-by: Berke Kocaoğlu <berke.kocaoglu@metu.edu.tr>
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README.md
Neo (or New or Not) Simple (or Small or Suckless) X Image Viewer
nsxiv is a fork of now unmaintained 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.
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 for details.
Features
- Basic image operations, e.g. zooming, panning, rotating
- Customizable key and mouse button mappings (in config.h)
- Script-ability via
key-handler - 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
Screenshots
Image mode: (Default colors)
Thumbnail mode: (Custom colors)
Installing via package manager
nsxiv is available on the following distributions/repositories. If you don't see your distro listed here, either contact your distro's package maintainer or consider packaging it yourself and adding it to the respective community repo.
Repos not tracked by repology:
- Fedora: Enable the copr repo via
dnf copr enable mamg22/nsxiv.
Dependencies
nsxiv requires the following software to be installed:
- Imlib2
- X11
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.
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)
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).
Building
nsxiv is built using the commands:
$ make
You can pass HAVE_X=0 to make to disable an optional dependency.
For example:
$ make HAVE_LIBEXIF=0
will disable libexif support. Alternatively they can be disabled via editing
config.mk. OPT_DEP_DEFAULT=0 can be used to disable all optional
dependencies.
Installing nsxiv:
# make install
Installing desktop entry:
# make install-desktop
Installing icons:
# make install-icon
Installing all of the above:
# make install-all
Please note, that these requires root privileges.
By default, nsxiv is installed using the prefix /usr/local, so the full path
of the executable will be /usr/local/bin/nsxiv, the .desktop entry will be
/usr/local/share/applications/nsxiv.desktop and the icon path will be
/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/{size}/apps/nsxiv.png.
You can install nsxiv into a directory of your choice by changing this command to:
$ make PREFIX="/your/dir" install
Example scripts are installed using EGPREFIX which defaults to
/usr/local/share/doc/nsxiv/examples. You can change EGPREFIX the same way
you can change PREFIX shown above.
The build-time specific settings of nsxiv can be found in the file config.h. Please check and change them, so that they fit your needs. If the file config.h does not already exist, then you have to create it with the following command:
$ make config.h
Usage
Please see man page for information on how to use nsxiv. To do so, execute the following after the installation:
$ man nsxiv
F.A.Q
-
Can I open remote urls with nsxiv?
Yes, see nsxiv-url -
Can I open all the images in a directory?
Yes, see nsxiv-rifle -
Can I set default arguments for nsxiv?
Yes, see nsxiv-env -
Can I pipe images into nsxiv?
Yes, see nsxiv-pipe
You may also wish to see the known issues.
Customization
The main method of customizing nsxiv is by setting values for the variables in config.h, or by using Xresources as explained in the manual. If these options are not sufficient, you may implement your own features by following this guide.
Due to our limited project scope, certain features or customization cannot be merged into nsxiv mainline. Following the spirit of suckless software, we host the nsxiv-extra repo where users are free to submit whatever patches or scripts they wish.
If you think your custom features can be beneficial for the general user base and is within our project scope, please submit it as a pull request on this repository, then we may merge it to mainline.
Description on how to use or submit patches can be found on nsxiv-extra's README.
Download
You can browse the source code repository on CodeBerg or get a copy using git with the following command:
$ git clone https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv.git
You can view the changelog here
Similar projects
If nsxiv isn't able to fit your needs, check out the image viewer section of suckless rocks to find other minimal image viewers to try out.
Below are a couple other lesser known projects not listed in suckless rocks.
- MAGE : A smaller/more-suckless version of sxiv.
- div : Minimal and extensive, aimed at C devs willing to build their own features.
- mpv-image-viewer : Lua script to turn mpv into an image viewer. Supports thumbnails via mpv-gallery-view.