Is there an approach to have feh --thumbnails do not display filename?

Question

I have many pictures which are screen shots created from shutter and downloaded from web. These pictures have long file names. When I create thumbnails on these pictures via feh -t, these long file name will prevent feh to display many pictures in one row.

And I did not find a solution for this on the feh man page. What can I do to display many pictures in a row?

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 03 '16 at 12:32

3

I know this is an old question and I know know the rules about that on this site but I found a solution (workaround maybe?) for myself just now:

Use --font to specify a truetype font that exists on your system and specify a size of 0, eg:

feh --recursive --thumbnail --font "/usr/share/fts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf/0" /mnt/pictures

edited Aug 03 '16 at 12:32

Kevdog777

3,194
18
43
64

answered Aug 03 '16 at 11:58

firmgently

31
3

This is the only workaround I could find, thank you! To take it a step further, you can use a font that maps to non-marking characters. This one worked for me: https://www.fontpalace.com/font-download/Adobe+Blank/ – noden00b May 03 '20 at 02:50

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 11 '22 at 21:03

2

firmgently’s solution (setting the font size to 0) didn't work for me.

My solution is: setting the index-info flag to an empty string --index-info '' -> removes the filename in the collage.

In this case:

feh --recursive --thumbnail --index-info ''  \
                            --font "/usr/share/fts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf/0"  \
                            /mnt/pictures

edited Apr 11 '22 at 21:03

G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica'

22,130
27
68
117

answered Apr 11 '22 at 16:14

burn4science

41
2

Is there an approach to have feh --thumbnails do not display filename?

2 Answers2