[CentOS] display full-screen color graphic without X

ken gebser at mousecar.com
Sat Oct 12 16:50:13 UTC 2013


On 10/12/2013 12:24 PM Fred Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:01:44AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:29:56 -0400
>> ken wrote:
>>
>>>> You probably want the fbi image viewer that comes in the fbida rpm.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Frank.  But a yum search didn't turn up anything for me.  Maybe
>>> it on some repo I'm not configured for.  Do you happen to know which
>>> repo I could get it from?
>>
>> Name        : fbida
>> Arch        : x86_64
>> Version     : 2.07
>> Release     : 8.el6
>> Size        : 70 k
>> Repo        : epel
>> Summary     : FrameBuffer Imageviewer
>> URL         : http://linux.bytesex.org/fbida/
>> License     : GPLv2+
>> Description : fbi displays the specified file(s) on the linux console using the
>>              : framebuffer device. PhotoCD, jpeg, ppm, gif, tiff, xwd, bmp and
>>              : png are supported directly. For other formats fbi tries to use
>>              : ImageMagick's convert.
>
> There are Centos-compatible RPMs for it on epel:
>
> # yum list available | grep -y fbida
> fbida.x86_64                              2.07-8.el6                     epel
> fbida-fbgs.x86_64                         2.07-8.el6                     epel
>

Ah, it's available only for 64-bit architectures... why it's not showing 
for me.

So I guess I need to keep looking for a solution.





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