How to call the standard image viewer?

[raybetts89]

Whenever I want to look at an image on the command line I use Kview, but what I want to use is the standard one you get when you click on an image file in windows mode. For me it's called visionneur d'image cos i'm using linux at my university in France.

[lugoteehalt]

Does this help? Started 'dolfin', the file manager that KDE offered me in Debian. Clicked a picture and it started 'qwenview'. Gwenview at the command line starts the program.

[raybetts89]

I tried both qwenview and gwenview but neither exist on Debian.

[fanderal]

Have you tried feh or geeqie?

[raybetts89]

Neither feh or geeqie exist either

[fanderal]

Neither feh or geeqie exist either

Gwenview, feh and geeqie are available from the Debian repos. Have you updated the package list?

[raybetts89]

I don't know how to update the package list. I'm on version 2.22.3
Surely there would be no need to update the system if the application 'visionneur d'images' already exists for the windows but not in the terminal.

[lugoteehalt]

I don't know how to update the package list. I'm on version 2.22.3
Surely there would be no need to update the system if the application 'visionneur d'images' already exists for the windows but not in the terminal.

Assuming you are newish to this: you should update frequently

apt-get update
at the command line

, assuming you are connected to the internet.

Then, at least is the way I do it - no guru,

aptitude

as root, and then hit <shift>+plus on any updates and then hit <g> until it installs the security patches etc..

You can install a good, friendly viewer with:

apt-get install gqview
gqview - image viewer using GTK+ (transitional package)

This is the old name for the thing I mentioned above.

[rcgreen]

Start the program by clicking an image. Then check its
menu if it has a help page. This should tell you what command
to use from the command line.