You can also use mplayer with "-fp" to play video on the frambuffer as well. I have gone weeks at a time without using a graphical desktop at all thanks to these tools.
Do you browse with framebuffer links too? :)
-links +lynx
FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
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Re: FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting you say the Dev isn't a great person, because I had a hunch when I saw the use of the Lena photo on the front page ( https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/it-s-time-to-retire-... ). It's interesting how small gestures present how someone sees the world.
Sure, you can 'see' how 'someone sees the world' just by him or her not abiding to the current narrative. You do realise that the 'Lena' image has been the standard image for these purposes for decades and that some people might not consider the (politically charged) crusade to suddenly ban it from all such use as being the most pressing issue? I think what you wrote here says more about how you see the world than ho…
You're right my comment was off the cuff but I stand by it's logic. I didn't say Kovid was a terrible person, just not great. Having not done research into him specifically I just noted with the parent that certain qualities such as supposed abrasiveness often overlap with qualities I dislike, like using the Lenna image.
My point is that using the Lenna image is a signal, just as you rightly point out so is my comment. I know exactly what the image is and is used for. But I also think it's sad that it's politically charged to say using a Playboy image in a literally objectifying fashion as a test-subject by a women who's requested we don't use it is bad.
It's not a sudden ban, it's been an issue since ~2015. Fun fact I learnt in this, Goyal is totally open to changing it (https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/661), it's simply no-one changed it. I'll see if I can, thanks for the correct call-out.
Re: FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to play videos with the framebuffer just fine and read PDF's with fbpdf2, among watching TV with fbtv and the like. I didn't miss nearly anything, as most games under SDL1/2 can render into FB with export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=fbcon or export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=kmsdrm And tons of games too, such as Supertux2, Crispy Doom, SDLQuake, FreeCiv-SDL...
another fun one if you're in an exotic situation and don't have a framebuffer (or if you just want to have some fun by making your games to look worse): export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=aalib unfortunately it's only SDL1, though
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=caca is more usable for games
Re: FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
another fun one if you're in an exotic situation and don't have a framebuffer (or if you just want to have some fun by making your games to look worse): export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=aalib unfortunately it's only SDL1, though
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=caca is more usable for games
Oh nice! How did I not know it works with caca?!
Re: FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
#35You can also use mplayer with "-fp" to play video on the frambuffer as well. I have gone weeks at a time without using a graphical desktop at all thanks to these tools.
Do you browse with framebuffer links too? :)
These days I prefer to ask an LLM to just go fetch content for me as much as possible.
Re: FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, you can 'see' how 'someone sees the world' just by him or her not abiding to the current narrative. You do realise that the 'Lena' image has been the standard image for these purposes for decades and that some people might not consider the (politically charged) crusade to suddenly ban it from all such use as being the most pressing issue? I think what you wrote here says more about how you see the world than ho…
You're right my comment was off the cuff but I stand by it's logic. I didn't say Kovid was a terrible person, just not great. Having not done research into him specifically I just noted with the parent that certain qualities such as supposed abrasiveness often overlap with qualities I dislike, like using the Lenna image. My point is that using the Lenna image is a signal, just as you rightly point out so is my commen…
Using the 'Lena' image is only a signal for those who want to signal something. For most people it is just the standard graphic to use when presenting image processing software. There has been a movement to ban the image but that movement is most likely not nearly so widespread as some people seem to think it is. It wholly depends on which 'bubble' you are in whether using that image is a deadly sin or just daily routine. I suspect Goyal used it in the latter way, not to send some signal to the Image Inquisition.
Re: FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
#37It can actually be also used for file recovery/discovery, see the last slide
https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/om_fim/attach...
>seek a ’magic’ signature in the file after opening it, and try decoding it starting within the range of that signature
Re: FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
#38Related to this are the (rather poorly named ) kitty terminals graphics protocol: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/ Yeah it is playful and all, but telling your colleagues to use "kitty" doesn't sound very professional. You might disagree with this, but that doesn't change the overall perception and general take in corporate world.
Good. More open source tools should be unappealing the the "corporate world". They can fund and pay for their own tooling.
Re: FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
#39Re: FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
#40Related to this are the (rather poorly named ) kitty terminals graphics protocol: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/ Yeah it is playful and all, but telling your colleagues to use "kitty" doesn't sound very professional. You might disagree with this, but that doesn't change the overall perception and general take in corporate world.
If we're going the see-also way: sixels. Especially timg for image viewing. I've also played with https://github.com/cptpiepmatz/nu-jupyter-kernel/tree/main/c... which can be neat but the invocation is terribly clunky.