fbv(1)

💅 fbv(1) — FrameBuffer Viewer 💅

okay bestie, this page is fbv(1), living in the General Commands Manual, and it’s about a simple program for viewing pictures on a framebuffer console. no cap, that’s the whole vibe 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

FrameBuffer Viewer — that’s literally the name, periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fbv [options] image1 image2 image3 ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so fbv is a simple lil program for viewing pictures on a framebuffer console. iconic behavior, honestly 🎀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

here’s the full flag lineup, no skips, iykyk:

• --help, -h — help
• --alpha, -a — respect the alpha channel (if applicable)
• --noclear, -c — don’t clear the screen before/after displaying the image
• --unhide, -u — don’t hide/show the cursor before/after displaying the image
• --noinfo, -i — don’t show image information
• --shrink, -f — shrink the image to fit onto the screen if necessary, using simple resize
• --colorshrink, -k — shrink the image to fit onto the screen if necessary, using color average resize
• --enlarge, -e — enlarge the image to fit the whole screen if necessary
• --widthonly, -l — if fitting the image to the screen, fit horizontally only
• --heightonly, -t — if fitting the image to the screen, fit vertically only
• --delay, -s <delay> — slideshow mode: wait delay tenths of a second before displaying each image
• -n imagename — the image name as shown in the help page; it defaults to the file name. when multiple files are passed, their names are separated by ^
• --orientation, -o o — initial orientation of the image, a number between 0 and 3
• --skiptty, -y — shows the image and returns without reading input from tty

🎀 KEYS 🎀

key vibe check, coming right up — key → function, bestie 🫶

• r — redraw the image
• < or , — previous image
• > or . — next image
• a, d, w, x — scroll the image (cursor keys also do that)
• f — toggle shrinking on/off
• k — toggle shrinking quality
• e — toggle enlarging on/off
• l — toggle fitting the image horizontally
• t — toggle fitting the image vertically
• i — toggle respecting the image aspect on/off
• +, -, 0 — increase, decrease and reset zoom
• n — rotate the image 90 degrees left
• m — rotate the image 90 degrees right
• p — disable all transformations
• h — help and image information

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

give it up for the authors, fr fr:

• Tomasz 'smoku' Sterna <tomek@smoczy.net>
• Mateusz 'mteg' Golicz <mtg@elsat.net.pl>
• Marcin 'Piaskowy' Zieba <piaskowy@irc.pl>
• YL godspeed1989 <godspeed1989@gmail.com>

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xoxo, source/version fbv(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 2001-02-18 🫶✨