sxiv vs ueberzug

sxiv

Simple X Image Viewer (by xyb3rt)

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ueberzug is a command line util which allows to display images in combination with X11. The user is expected to have knowledge of theoretical computer science. https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/wiki/Troubleshooting/119e30f331799b30fb9594db29740685cb09425b (by seebye)

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sxiv		ueberzug
	Project
3	Mentions	35
1,734	Stars	1,252
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
C	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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sxiv

Posts with mentions or reviews of sxiv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

What are you rewriting in rust?
36 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jul 2023

i'm just start exploring Rust GUI world and currently i try to write an image viewer like sxiv with iced
[herbstluftwm] g̶̼̟̓̒ĺ̶̦̠̿i̷̮̫͌t̵̻̋̄c̸͍̙̊h̵̦͛͜ all the things
2 projects | /r/unixart | 23 May 2023

image viewer: sxiv
Switching from Linux. Need help.
3 projects | /r/MacOS | 12 Feb 2023

I tried that and didn't like it, I highly recommend checking out sxiv.

ueberzug

Posts with mentions or reviews of ueberzug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.

what are some good images/videos viewer?
4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 11 Apr 2023

original code here dev deleted it, where is the fork you are saying ? i only found this one
Image viewers.
1 project | /r/commandline | 12 Mar 2023
Terminal Image and PDF Not Rendered Right/Blocky
3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 19 Dec 2022

I guess it is using https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa for that, and it needs to be using https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/tree/2c55173878906c3b221cdef16cf083f0c412bb58
Ueberzug - Telescope & Ranger Media File Viewer
1 project | /r/neovim | 11 Dec 2022

They both require Ueberzug and have a [link to the repo](https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug).
Gnome 42 and lots of Thumbnail Previews
3 projects | /r/FindMeADistro | 9 Dec 2022

- image (depends on the terminal), I use something like ueberzug (which is not maintained but works). This requires the following lines in your config
Developer archives open source package due to harassments
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2022
This was very sad to see :(
1 project | /r/commandline | 1 Dec 2022

There are 90 forks right now https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/network/members
Ueberzug Is Not Maintained
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2022
Üeberzug Is Not Maintained
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2022
Überzug was discontinued
1 project | /r/linux | 23 Nov 2022

Überzug was (is?) a popular project mostly used to preview images in CLI, e.g. Ranger file manager.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sxiv and ueberzug you can also consider the following projects:

feh - a fast and light image viewer

hologram.nvim - 👻 A cross platform terminal image viewer for Neovim. Extensible and fast, written in Lua and C. Works on macOS and Linux.

vimiv-qt - An image viewer with vim-like keybindings

lf - Terminal file manager

image-roll - Image Roll - simple and fast GTK image viewer with basic image manipulation tools. Written in Rust.

termux-archlinux - You can use setupTermuxArch.bash 📲 to install Arch Linux in Termux on Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows. https://sdrausty.github.io/termux-archlinux/

zathura - a document viewer

buku - :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text

lf - Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store

tensorken - A fun, hackable, GPU-accelerated, neural network library in Rust, written by an idiot

nvidia-all - Nvidia driver latest to 396 series AIO installer