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Questions tagged [feh]

feh is a lightweight image viewer

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How do I delete images from disk using feh?

I use feh to view images on my hard drive. However, if I hit [delete] the images are removed from the current slideshow, but not from the disk. What is the right way of removing images from the drive straight from feh?
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feh: maintain zoom setting

When browsing through the images in a directory with feh, the magnification can be changed by use of the up/down arrow keys, but the setting is lost as soon as the next image in the series is loaded. Is there a way to apply the magnification setting…
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How to permanently set default color of feh's background to black?

Whenever I open an image in feh, the background is set to the standard, dark gray and gray checkboard pattern like this: As you can see, it's the checkboard background. How do I permanently change this to black? I've search Google and other places,…
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Bind key to custom script in feh

Is there a way in which I can bind a keypress to a custom script (say a bash script) in feh? From the manual I have found out through ~/.config/feh/keys I can reconfigure keys, but as far as I know the commands should be predefined feh commands. Is…
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Make feh notice newly plugged-in monitor for image scaling

I use my laptop with multiple monitor, I want feh to understand that a new monitor has plugged in and scale wallpaper image accordingly. I use the following code, but when a new monitor is plugged in, feh tiles the last wallpaper on all monitors. …
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remove background with feh?

I use feh to set fixed background (wallpaper) in X (one line in .xinitrc): feh --bg-fill --no-fehbg some_image_file & Is this possible to remove background using feh (or any other tool/command) during X session? I know that I can use some kind of…
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Feh and i3-gaps not playing nicely

so I'm using exec_always feh --bg-scale *wallpaper* and it sets it correctly. I'm also using i3-gaps which can be found here. When I start setting my windows up, my wallpaper starts freaking out. I'm not quite sure if this is feh or i3-gaps.…
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Is there an approach to have feh --thumbnails do not display filename?

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…
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How to present a slideshow with 'feh' with datestamp displayed on the photographs?

I want to show my photos in a slideshow and have the date displayed for each photograph. I tried it with feh, which is compiled with exif=1 I found --info and --drawexif but can't get it to work. feh -d --draw-exif '-Directory'…
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Feh full screen shortcut

I was looking to setup fullscreen as shortcut for feh in my .config file but I can't find it anywhere. I know that I can get full screen by using -F through command line but I was looking for a way to get full screen after feh is already opened. ie,…
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How can I get feh to set wallpaper to each monitor according to its size?

I have a directory filled with png files $ tree ~/wallpaper/ ~/wallpaper/ ├── foo--1366x768.png ├── foo--1920x1080.png ├── foo--2048x1080.png ├── foo--3440x1440.png └── foo--3840x2160.png 0 directories, 5 files I'm often changing monitors,…
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How to display images on a grid which consist specific size (MxN) in FEH?

I have about 30 images (all images of the same size: 300x75) in a directory and would like to present them on a grid of size 5x6. so far I have done it manually: $ feh -i --thumb-width 300 --thumb-height 75 --limit-width 300*5 --limit-height 75*6 .…
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Configuring feh key mapping problems

I want to configure feh so that the arrow keys and h, j, k, l to scroll the image left/down/up/right. I put following in ~/.config/feh/keys: zoom_in zoom_out scroll_right scroll_left scroll_up scroll_down zoom_in plus zoom_out minus scroll_up…
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How to display image width and height in FEH?

I want FEH to display image's width and height in bottom-left corner (like: 1920x1080) But feh --info "%wx%h" doesn't work, and terminal says: sh: 1: 1920x1080: not found
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Get the Absolute Path from feh

The feh command allows you to view images within a folder recursively: feh --recursive --auto-zoom While viewing images, it also allows you to associate custom commands with keys 0-9 on your keyboard. For example, if I wanted the terminal to output…
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