Displaying an image on linux without running x

2013-01-08

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Question

does anyone know of a way to just display an image via command line or C? I can run video fine without running X with omxplayer but i would like to also display an image without having to load the desktop, either via C or something i can run from the shell

Answer

fbi, a frame-buffer image viewer, might do the trick for you.

Otherwise, you could try JPEG to ASCII for a rough viewing of JPEG images.