FIM (Fbi IMproved): Lightweight, Customizable Image Viewer for Unix Systems
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Summary
FIM (Fbi IMproved) is a lightweight, customizable image viewer program inspired by GNU/Linux concepts. It's designed for users comfortable with VIM or Mutt, offering keyboard control, full-screen display, and support for multiple image formats. The software is highly scriptable and customizable, with minimal library dependencies, making it suitable for Unix systems including GNU/Linux.
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FIM is a highly customizable and scriptable image viewer for users who are comfortable with software like the VIM text editor or the Mutt mail user agent.
It has been developed with GNU/Linux in mind, but can be built to run on several Unix systems, and with some adaption.
It is rather lightweight, as it depends on a few libraries, and most of them optional.
It can display in full screen and you control it using the keyboard.
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