Viewing images in the terminal

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I have a large number of image files i need to manually review. In the past i’ve used fbi -e from the terminal to give me a quick way to scroll through image files and delete unnecessary ones with Shift+d

I updated the base template with sudo dnf install fbi then restarted my app qube. Running the command gives me the error message using "Noto Sans Mono-16", pixelsize=16.67 file=/usr/share/fonts/google-noto-vf/NotoSansMono[wght].ttf trying drm: /dev/dri/card0 ... drm: open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory trying fbdev: /dev/fb0 ... open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

I assume i need to work some magic from dom0 to give the app qube a /dev/fb0 to access. Any thoughts on how to go about that?

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Much easier is to use fim - available in Debian and Fedora 22. It’s a
rewrite of fbi and will work out of the box in Qubes.
Keyboard control of image viewing and processing.
One difference is that you do not directly delete images - instead you
“mark” them, and can then review marked files, and unmark as necessary.
If you start with fim * > list, when you close fim, names of all marked
files are written in list, and you can then move or delete them as
you will.

I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.

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Thank you, I’ll give that tool a try

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fim seems to work, but I’m failing to get any files to mark

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Works for me. How are you marking? Do you see message in status bar at
bottom?

I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.

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I am not seeing any messages.
[user@vault no_timestamp]$ fim --dump-default-fimrc | grep mark alias 'toggleLimitMarked' '__pre_limit_fileindex=_fileindex;_limit_mode=1-_limit_mode; if(_limit_mode==1){limit "!";} else { limit; } if(_filelistlen<1){_limit_mode=0;limit;goto __pre_limit_fileindex;} i:fresh=1;redisplay; ' "toggle between limiting file list to the marked files and the full list"; bind 'C-m' "list 'mark'"; bind 'u' "list 'unmark'"; bind 'Enter' "list 'mark';goto _lastgotodirection";

searched for ‘marked’ in the bindings and have tried using ‘Enter’ as well as C-m but my output file remains empty.

What are you doing after you envoke fim to mark files?