fbview - display various picture formats on a framebuffer

fbview [options] file [file2...]

Reads at least one graphic file as input, and renders it (or them, in sequence) to a free virtual terminal. You must specify at least one filename. This requires the ppmtofb program and netpbm to work.

-h, --help

Show a brief summary of the options permitted.

-v, --verbose

Write information about each image to stderr.

-q, --quiet

Don't write information about each image to stderr.

-V, --ppmtofb-verbose

Tell ppmtofb to be verbose too.

-c, --center, --centre

Center the image on the visible display area (if possible).

--no-center, --no-centre

Don't center the image on the visible display area.

-w, --delay, --pause

Set the mininum delay between images, in seconds. (Default: 5). Note that the time an image is displayed while another is loading is included in this delay period (so if it takes longer than the delay period to load the next image, the delay will be extended).

-d, --depth, --bpp

Set the color depth for images. Defaults to the depth of the current mode.

-g, --grayscale, --greyscale

Render all images in grayscale. This can be significantly faster than color display on low-color displays.

-C, --color, --colour

Render non-grayscale images in color.

-m, --maxcolors, --maxcolours

If non-zero, run ppmquant on images to reduce them to, at most, this many colors. (Default: 0)

-W, --width

Tell fbview how wide your display is; if the image width is greater than this width, the image will be scaled appropriately. (Default: 640)

-H, --height

Tell fbview how high your display is; if the image height is greater than this height, the image will be scaled appropriately. (Default: 480)

-f, --framebuffer, --frame-buffer

Specify the framebuffer device to use. This defaults to /dev/fb0.

fbview reads a configuration file from /etc/fbview.conf or .fbview.conf in the user's home directory which overrides its default settings. See the example in /usr/share/doc/ppmtofb/examples/fbview.conf for details.

Only supports certain file formats.

file(1), ppmtofb(1), fb.modes(5), ppm(5), /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt

Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>

Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Chris Lawrence.

May be redistributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 (or, at your option, a later version).