Package Details: fontpreview 1.0.6-4

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/fontpreview.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: fontpreview
Description: Highly customizable and minimal font previewer written in bash
Upstream URL: https://github.com/sdushantha/fontpreview
Keywords: font preview viewer
Licenses: MIT
Submitter: clove3am
Maintainer: kleintux
Last Packager: kleintux
Votes: 11
Popularity: 0.32
First Submitted: 2020-10-14 21:00 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-01-04 18:19 (UTC)

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kleintux commented on 2026-01-04 18:20 (UTC)

i contacted the maintainer for a new release but get no answer. so i pined the source to the latest commit.

aruncveli commented on 2026-01-01 21:31 (UTC) (edited on 2026-01-04 20:01 (UTC) by aruncveli)

The latest tagged version of fontpreview explicitly depends on sxiv, while the latest code in git has been updated to completely replace sxiv with nsxiv.

Since the package depends on nsxiv, shouldn't the package download the script from the master branch, instead of the tag?

I installed this package today. nsxiv got installed as a dependency. But the script searched for sxiv, couldn't find it installed and exited.

evertiro commented on 2025-02-24 07:00 (UTC)

nsxiv can't be used as an alternative dependency, as it isn't a drop-in replacement. The latest tagged version of fontpreview explicitly depends on sxiv, while the latest code in git has been updated to completely replace sxiv with nsxiv.

kleintux commented on 2024-06-28 08:11 (UTC)

@AvidSeeker thx for mentioning that. I updated the PKGBUILD :)

AvidSeeker commented on 2024-06-25 13:44 (UTC)

nsxiv should be used as an alternative dependency to sxiv.