Video Thumbnails and a nice little image viewer. Tips.

runemad · 06-22-2020, 06:38 AM

This is probably not something new to many of you, but if you want to have video thumbnails enabled in PCManFM, install "FFmpegthumbnailer". It works out of the box. I tried "FFMpegThumbs" but, nope.
If you want a nice and simple image viewer, I suggest you try "Eye of Mate" (package: eom). It handles most formats including animated gifs and the scroll wheel lets you zoom in and out.
Just a couple of tips for newbies, from a newbie.

sevendogsbsd · 06-22-2020, 10:57 AM

Viewnior is also a light and fast image viewer with good functionality. Not sure if EoM has any Mate` dependencies. People not using Mate` may have an issue with that. Good to know about PCManFM, thanks for the tidbit.

runemad · 06-22-2020, 12:26 PM

I am guessing EoM has some basic gnome-stuff dependencies, which is most likely installed in Bodhi from the get-go already. I got no "complaining" about MATE dependencies when I installed it. EoM is just a fork of Eye of Gnome, so maybe that's the reason.

sevendogsbsd · 06-22-2020, 04:36 PM

Figured that but just wanted to bring it up. Quite familiar with Mate` - it is patterned after my beloved Gnome 2, which sadly doesn't exist any longer and has been replaced with a hideous monster

ondoho · 06-23-2020, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by runemad

If you want a nice and simple image viewer, I suggest you try XXXXXXX. It handles most formats including animated gifs and the scroll wheel lets you zoom in and out.

I've been partial to geeqie for a long time now.
It's from GNOME's early days but still under development. Super fast, and loads every image format I throw at it.
I prefer it to feh, which is a little too spartan in some situations (very good for single-image situations though. Like opening straight from a web link).

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Originally Posted by sevendogsbsd

Viewnoir

What a lovely typo.
I used viewnior for animated GIFs, but since geeqie can also do that I have no use for it.