Package Details: fbv 1.0c-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/fbv.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: fbv
Description: FrameBuffer image viewer
Upstream URL: https://github.com/jstkdng/fbv
Licenses: GPL-2.0-only
Submitter: arojas
Maintainer: JstKddng
Last Packager: JstKddng
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.000004
First Submitted: 2023-04-01 08:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-12-14 02:38 (UTC)

Latest Comments

JstKddng commented on 2024-12-03 13:06 (UTC)

switch done, had to create my own fork because godspeed's configure is broken

emk2203 commented on 2024-12-03 05:42 (UTC)

Can confirm, upstream is still dead. (For three months now).

Time to switch to the alternative source. The fork on github I found is https://github.com/godspeed1989/fbv

sgerwk commented on 2024-09-04 03:43 (UTC)

Upstream source seems to be dead.

Why not using the github version?

m040601 commented on 2023-09-28 02:10 (UTC) (edited on 2023-09-28 02:14 (UTC) by m040601)

Has undocumented keys not in the man page and not --help

Space              - next image
>(greater than)    - next image
<(lesser than)     - previous image
up/down/left/right  - panning

m040601 commented on 2023-09-28 01:51 (UTC) (edited on 2023-09-28 01:52 (UTC) by m040601)

Some usefull information.

This PKGBUILD pulls from http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ which unfortunately was last updated in 2011. The Changelog itself states the latest changes as of 2003. So the original tool hasnt been touch since then. It still works perfectly. Very very usefull in the console and with fbterm.

But there is fork on github, https://github.com/godspeed1989/fbv

And this fork one has many commits and recent activity up to 2021. Also many contributions from other Arch users like https://github.com/sgerwk?tab=repositories , https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sgerwk

m040601 commented on 2023-04-01 18:55 (UTC)

Just noticed this package was "downgraded" from an official Arch package to the AUR in the big "spring cleanup" by Antonio Rojas.

Thanks for adopting it. Just to let you know that there are still many of us Arch users who do use and test a lot of these framebuffer tools (image viewers, screen shot , screen cast etc).

You might also be interested in adopting https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fbdump. It "screenshots" the console to .ppm files. Was working perfectly fine on my system.

There is also "fbgrab", still an official Arch package, which screeshots to .png files.