Image viewers provided by MX Linux Xfce [Solved]

[advice1010]

My goal is to try to be able to use as many of the programs that MX Linux Xfce comes with by default.
First off I want to say whoever is picking out the software provided with MX Linux Xfce is doing a great job overall, many of the programs chosen have tons of settings to play with. However, through no fault of MX unfortunately noticing that a couple of these programs that have tons of settings, I keep on finding little expected features missing that end up compromising my goal mentioned above.

NOMACS
I found two issues with it, one I for some reason cannot remember at the moment, the other was in full screen mode mouse cursor does not hide, which is very important for what I am trying to use it for. Doing research this is a reported bug, but it does not appear that the project is being worked on anymore?

FEH
At first I was questioning why was this program even included, doesn’t seem to have many features? Then I looked at its manual and was shut up pretty quickly, Wow! :)

I have images associated with FEH and I use file managers to open image files.
The command that was originally used by this program in MX was

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feh %U

This made it so that the common hotkey of using the arrow keys left & right to navigate to previous & next in the current selected folder did not work.
I then modified the command with the following.

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feh %D --fullscreen –hide-pointer

I just noticed that when actually trying to use this that no matter what image you select to view, it now automatically opens the first image in the directory no matter what and the only way to see the other images is to navigate using left/right arrows.
I want this to show the image of the file selected and start from there next / previous.
Hopefully there is a simple solution for this because I really like this program.

If anyone has any solutions please let me know.
Thank You

[advice1010]

Not the point of this post but another example of fully featured programs missing expected features….
-QPDFView has tons of features, but does not appear to have the common text selection tool, doing research I found that it has the ability to highlight with a rectangle but has some drawbacks. Not a feature I use a great deal but want it to be there.

[Charlie Brown]

I've been using xviewer and viewnior happily for years to simply view/navigate images, light, simple, fast, easy (afaik the xviewer was already forked from the latter and they're very similar)

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$ apt show xviewer
...
Original-Maintainer: Linux Mint <root@linuxmint.com>
Installed-Size: 7,547 kB
...
Homepage: https://github.com/linuxmint/xviewer
Download-Size: 1,178 kB
...
Description: Image viewer
 Xviewer is a simple image viewer which uses the gdk-pixbuf library.  It can
 deal with large images, and zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its
 goals are simplicity and standards compliance.

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$ apt show viewnior 
...
Maintainer: Dariusz Dwornikowski <dariusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl>
Installed-Size: 679 kB
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Homepage: http://xsisqox.github.io/Viewnior/
Download-Size: 137 kB
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Description: simple, fast and elegant image viewer
 This is Viewnior, an image viewer program. Created to be simple, fast
 and elegant. Its minimalistic interface provides more screenspace for
 your images. Among its features are:
 .
  * Fullscreen & Slideshow
  * Rotate, flip, crop, save, delete images
  * Animation support
  * Browse only selected images
  * Navigation window
  * Set image as wallpaper (under GNOME, Fluxbox and LXDE)
  * Simple interface
  * Configurable mouse actions

[CharlesV]

If you create a custom action in thunar, setting the following, then it works fine for me.

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feh %f;

[Charlie Brown]

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feh -FY --start-at %f

Also you can (to display file names (path) on top left):

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feh -FYd --start-at %f

[advice1010]

@CharlesV
Thank you for your response, but then wouldn't I have to use the CM to open images or use a hotkey?

@Charlie Brown
Thank you for your response and your recommendations, I didn't see "xviewer" in the repo but I did see "viewnior" I will give it a look.
I just saw that you made another response, good grief.
I tried the two commands that you mentioned and they appear to work great, I think you solved it.
I don't care what Lucy says, in my eyes you are no blockhead.
Thank you Charlie Brown :)

[jeffreyC]

xviewer is in the Linux Mint Debian Edition repos:

http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=faye

You could put in a request for it to be packaged for MX.

[CharlesV]

@CharlesV
Thank you for your response, but then wouldn't I have to use the CM to open images or use a hotkey?

If your in Thunar, you would just right click on the file and choose your action that you created.

[bin]

Geeqie. Been my default viewer since it forked/took over.

Full screen mode - no mouse cursor unless you touch the mouse. If you do you get the mouse cursor for about 3 seconds - then it vanishes.

Huge range of keyboard options for navigation and just about everything else as well.