mpv-image-viewer VS sway

How would I use MPV as an image viewer, I have tried this link, but it doesn't seem to work as soon as I open an image file, it plays for like 2 seconds that MPV "exits" the file, possibly I would have to toggle inf loop on all image files, but I don't know how I would do this

Mpv can do most of the things you want. I use it as image viewer and comic reader it's a very powerful and customizable software. The only issue I got with it as image viewer is that the scrolling is not smooth. Here's a GitHub page to start using mpv as image viewer : https://github.com/occivink/mpv-image-viewer

Try mpv https://github.com/occivink/mpv-image-viewer

https://github.com/occivink/mpv-image-viewer https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7983

Copy https://git.sr.ht/~guidocella/mpv-image-config/tree/master/item/scripts/image-keybindings.lua#L60 or https://github.com/occivink/mpv-image-viewer/blob/master/scripts/image-positioning.lua to a script in the scripts directory within mpv's configuration directory, then use it by binding script-binding drag-to-pan.

For image viewing I either use eye-of-gnome or, since a few weeks, mpv with the following extensions: https://github.com/occivink/mpv-image-viewer

mpv with the gallery view plugin makes for a great video/image previewer

Image viewer: MPV with mpv-image-viewer scripts

This is partially why i use tools like i3 (/ sway). i like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. it just works. it is boring in the best way possible.

I also have crashes on sway, but there’s a rough workaround now which prevents the issue totally.

I believe there’s a design issue with Firefox and GTK handling input events; some Wayland compositors have workarounds but others do not.

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7645

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144

Firefox is my preferred browser and I hope we can keep its engine alive in this era of Chrome dominance.

I'm seeing this: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Setting-Environmental-Variables but I haven't figured out how to make GDM do it, and I was wondering if there was a super simple "HEY SWAY READ MY .PROFILE" thing I could do.

So I searched around and found the following bug report where this problem and a possible solution was borough up: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/2966 , which was then immediately closed again.

I've been using Sway since late 2019. I like the workflow of a WM. I honestly find it hard to go back to a DE, I like having a minimalistic desktop.

Sway is fast, minimal, and flexible. Their recommended tools/addons are worth a look: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway

From that list I use greetd + tuigreet as my login manager, sway-launcher-desktop for FZF-powered app launching, and wob for lightweight brightness and volume display (send '50' to the wob socket and it'll show 50%; it doesn't get simpler).