To do so, first produce a text description file, say with: ls | sed 's/$/ /g' > files.dsc, containing: You can maintain textual descriptions of them and have them displayed in FIM. Say you have a collection of digital photographs, e.g. Starting with version 0.5, FIM has powerful features to browse through photo collections. (see documentation for the common defaults for keys and commands). and browsing through them with the basic keys: The very basics of FIM are opening files, e.g.: Tutorial: Browsing through a photo collection with FIM How to display attached images in Mutt using FIM Supporting the Savannah project, whom network kindly hosts FIM repositories ĭonating to the Free Software Foundation Europe ĭonating to the Free Software Foundation īrowsing through a photo collection with FIM įrom other software (especially VIM) and science fiction movies.įIM started as a fork of the Fbi image viewer by Gerd Hoffmann. Official mirror (on the Savannah mirror network). Official FIM homepage: (this ugly one here, yes). The right video mode gets auto-detected or selected at runtime, and may be opted in/out before build at configure time, if desired. Or as monochrome ASCII Art using the AAlib library (see screenshots). Graphically, under X/Xorg, using the SDL library (see screenshots)Īs coloured ASCII Art using the libcaca library, Graphically, with the Linux framebuffer device (see screenshots). It is universal: it can open many file formats and it can display pictures in the following video modes: It is lightweight: it depends on a few libraries (and most optional), it can display in full screen and you control it using the keyboard.

It has been developed with Linux in mind, but can be built to run on several Unix systems or even on MS-Windows. Or the Mutt mail user agent (see this minitutorial). Like the VIM text editor (see this minitutorial) Image viewer for users who are comfortable with software Top tutorials news screenshots documentation download man fim man fimrc man fimgs copyright license bugsįIM (Fbi IMproved) image viewer program homepageįIM is a lightweight universal image viewer, conceived when working in Linux.įIM aims to be a highly customizable and scriptable FIM: fbi improved (lightweight customizable image viewer) home page

Linux image viewer