[kwlug-disc] Image viewer that can build up a slideshow

[Chris Frey]

Perhaps you can script something together with the 'fswatch' tool?

	mkdir /tmp/pics
	fswatch --event Created /tmp/pics | xargs -n1 xzgv

Elsewhere...

	cp file.jpg /tmp/pics
	cp somethingelse.jpg /tmp/pics

- Chris


On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 11:47:07PM -0500, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> The right noun phrase is something like "image viewer inotify".
> 
> The delayed filename adding that Chris talked about is exactly the
> hard part. No image viewer that I found (except a web browser like
> Firefox, I guess) supports that. However, there are a small number
> that support watching a particular folder for changes (pqiv, feh,
> geeqie). Of these I could only get geeqie to work well with my
> tiling window manager, which is a shame because it is the heaviest of
> the three.  
> 
> The workflow then becomes:
> - Start up geeqie to look at a folder, with assorted settings (sort by
>   date, disable all the thumbnail cruft) enabled.
> - Every time I want to add to the slideshow, save the file into that
>   folder. 
> - Then geeqie picks up the image in its list.
> 
> By "slideshow" I did not actually mean something that auto-forwards
> ever X seconds. I just wanted a sequence of images I could flip
> through manually. This solution works well enough for that. It is not exactly
> the same as Steve's suggestion but it is based on a similar principle
> of using a folder as the organizing mechanism.
> 
> - Paul
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 08:58:21AM -0500, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > I am lacking the nouns to feed into a search engine for this, so I
> > will describe what I am looking for and hope somebody can either
> > provide nouns or a candidate.
> > 
> > Currently I use sxiv to open images. If I open an image with sxiv it
> > puts it in a new window. So if I open four images with four
> > invocations of sxiv I get four windows.
> > 
> > I want to make four invocations of an image viewer and have the images
> > added to a slideshow. The first invocation should launch the image
> > viewer. The second through fourth should add the listed images to the
> > image viewer, so that I can build up a slideshow in a single window.
> > Ideally the latest image I invoke should be the one that is
> > displaying, but then I want to be able to scroll through the rest.
> > 
> > I want to launch the image viewer with a single commandline command,
> > providing the image filename as an argument. 
> > 
> > Ideally this imageviewer would be lightweight. In the past I have
> > tried things like feh and qiv in addition to sxiv. Maybe one of these
> > can do what I want already; I have not really looked.
> > 
> > What is the noun phrase for what I am looking for? Alternatively, what
> > software can do this and how do I accomplish it?
> > 
> > - Paul
> > 
> > 
> 
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