[Slackbuilds-users] so-called terminal image viewers

[Jude DaShiell]

Hi, can’t do it since I haven’t got the needed hardware.  It may be sent out for diagnosis and repair quote eventually.  Good you could test chafa with eyes as a comparative test.  I have a chromebook and would have to download slint direct to a usb disk and then find out how to replace chromium with slint on installation.  Lots of problems with chromevox I’ll not relay to the group since no interest exists here for that.  My niece has a box and styrofoam but unfortunately though she recovered she got covid from her husband.

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> On Jun 22, 2023, at 3:59 PM, Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr> wrote:
> 
> You made me curious, Jude.
> 
> I assume that the braille mode is possible because chafa outputs discrete
> characters. Rendering is not good for a sighted user in most terminals and in a
> Linux console, however having read
> https://hpjansson.org/blag/2021/09/16/chafa-1-8-terminal-graphics-with-a-side-of-everything/
> I installed Kitty then from kitty ran "chafa <someimage.png>" and the output
> looks as detailed as if the image were viewed in atril or eom or lx-image, for
> instance
> 
> If you have the needed hardware, please try this:
> 1. Install Kitty. In slint: slapt-get -i kitty (it's in the repo salix-15.0)
> 2. Install chafa (if not yet done): slapt-src -i chafa
> 3. Start kitty (you will need to be in graphical environment like mate)
> 4. From kitty try to render an image in braille using chafa
> Please let us know if that works.
> 
> Cheers,
> Didier
> 
> 
>> Le 22/06/2023 à 20:49, Jude DaShiell a écrit :
>> For people without vision, chafa can help.  The view can be shown with symbols for a linux terminal and there’s even a braille mode and that needs either a braille printer with graphics capability or a refreshable braille graphics display both expensive for people but organizations buy most of those for that reason anyway.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Jun 22, 2023, at 12:42 PM, Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> fbida works just fine.
>>> pass it the list of images and then use pageup/pagedown to navigate, and q or esc to quit. (h for help)
>>> eg.
>>> fbi smiley.png party.jpg game.bmp
>>> or for viewing all files in the current dir
>>> fbi *
>>> 
>>> regards, Tim
>>> 
>>>> On 22/06/2023 12:05, dchmelik at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> On 6/22/23 3:47 AM, Ralph Spitzner wrote:
>>>>> dchmelik at gmail.com wrote on 6/22/23 12:02 PM:
>>>>>> Recent years there have been a few so-called 'terminal image viewers' SlackBuilds uploaded but in these descriptions people are lying through 
>>>>> 
>>>>> slackware has fbv....
>>>> 
>>>> No; Slackware has seejpeg (which hasn't worked in years on newer hardware).  SlackBuilds.org (SBo, which isn't (official) Slackware) has fbida & fbv, neither which can go to previous or next images anymore, apparently, which I reported years ago to the maintainers and one or more of the programmers but never heard back.  That's why I'm looking for new stuff, and they're all called terminal image viewers but aren't: only X terminal viewers!  There are a couple other framebuffer ones, but they don't seem to take input after you display an image.
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