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authorBerke Kocaoğlu <berke.kocaoglu@metu.edu.tr>2021-09-16 11:32:59 +0200
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Rename, Update Docs and Prepare for Release (#9)
Co-authored-by: Guilherme Rugai Freire <41879254+GRFreire@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: N-R-K <79544946+N-R-K@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: NRK <nrk@disroot.org> Co-authored-by: Arthur Williams <taaparthur@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: eylles <ed.ylles1997@gmail.com>
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@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
-![sxiv](http://muennich.github.com/sxiv/img/logo.png "sxiv")
+![nsxiv](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nsxiv/nsxiv/gh-pages/img/logo.png "nsxiv")
-**Simple X Image Viewer**
+**Neo (or New or Not) Simple (or Small or Suckless) X Image Viewer**
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
-The sole purpose of sxiv is to be the perfect image viewer for me. It is free
-software so that you can use it and modify it for your needs. Please file a bug
-report if something does not work as documented or expected. Contributions are
-welcome but there is no guarantee that they will be incorporated.
+nsxiv is a fork of now unmaintained [sxiv](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv)
+with the purpose of maintaining it and adding simple, sensible features.
+nsxiv is free software licensed under GPLv2 and aims to be easy to modify and customize.
+
+Please file a bug report if something does not work as documented or
+expected in *this* repository, after making sure you are using the latest
+release of nsxiv. Contributions are welcome, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)
+for details.
Features
@@ -16,26 +21,27 @@ Features
* Thumbnail mode: grid of selectable previews of all images
* Ability to cache thumbnails for fast re-loading
* Basic support for multi-frame images
-* Load all frames from GIF files and play GIF animations
+* Play GIF animations
* Display image information in status bar
+* Display image name/path in X title
Screenshots
-----------
-**Image mode:**
+**Image mode: (Default colors)**
-![Image](http://muennich.github.com/sxiv/img/image.png "Image mode")
+![Image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nsxiv/nsxiv/gh-pages/img/image.png "Image mode")
-**Thumbnail mode:**
+**Thumbnail mode: (Custom colors)**
-![Thumb](http://muennich.github.com/sxiv/img/thumb.png "Thumb mode")
+![Thumb](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nsxiv/nsxiv/gh-pages/img/thumb.png "Thumb mode")
Dependencies
------------
-sxiv requires the following software to be installed:
+nsxiv requires the following software to be installed:
* Imlib2
* X11
@@ -46,37 +52,39 @@ sxiv requires the following software to be installed:
* libexif (optional, automatically enabled if installed)
Please make sure to install the corresponding development packages in case that
-you want to build sxiv on a distribution with separate runtime and development
-packages (e.g. *-dev on Debian).
+you want to build nsxiv on a distribution with separate runtime and development
+packages (e.g. \*-dev on Debian).
Building
--------
-sxiv is built using the commands:
+nsxiv is built using the commands:
$ make
- # make install
-
-Please note, that the latter one requires root privileges.
-By default, sxiv is installed using the prefix "/usr/local", so the full path
-of the executable will be "/usr/local/bin/sxiv".
Running make will automatically detect if libexif and libgif are available and
enable them if so. CLI arguments will override any automatic detection.
For example:
- $ make HAVE_LIBGIF=0
+ $ make HAVE_LIBGIF=0
will always disable libgif.
Alternatively, they can be disabled via editing `config.mk`.
-You can install sxiv into a directory of your choice by changing the second
-command to:
+Installing nsxiv:
+
+ # make install
+
+Please note, that this requires root privileges.
+By default, nsxiv is installed using the prefix "/usr/local", so the full path
+of the executable will be "/usr/local/bin/nsxiv".
+
+You can install nsxiv into a directory of your choice by changing this command to:
- # make PREFIX="/your/dir" install
+ $ make PREFIX="/your/dir" install
-The build-time specific settings of sxiv can be found in the file *config.h*.
+The build-time specific settings of nsxiv can be found in the file *config.h*.
Please check and change them, so that they fit your needs.
If the file *config.h* does not already exist, then you have to create it with
the following command:
@@ -87,167 +95,32 @@ the following command:
Usage
-----
-Please see the [man page](http://muennich.github.com/sxiv/sxiv.1.html) for
-information on how to use sxiv.
-
-
-Download & Changelog
---------------------
-
-You can [browse](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv) the source code repository
-on GitHub or get a copy using git with the following command:
-
- git clone https://github.com/muennich/sxiv.git
-
-**Stable releases**
-
-**[v26](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v26.tar.gz)**
-*(January 16, 2020)*
-
- * Maintenance release
-
-**[v25](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v25.tar.gz)**
-*(January 26, 2019)*
-
- * Support font fallback for missing glyphs
- * Fix busy loop when built without inotify
- * Use background/foreground colors from X resource database
-
-**[v24](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v24.tar.gz)**
-*(October 27, 2017)*
-
- * Automatically reload the current image whenever it changes
- * Support embedding into other X windows with -e (e.g. tabbed)
- * New option -p prevents sxiv from creating cache and temporary files
- * Simpler mouse mappings, the most basic features are accessible with the
- mouse only (navigate, zoom, pan)
-
-**[v1.3.2](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v1.3.2.tar.gz)**
-*(December 20, 2015)*
-
- * external key handler gets file paths on stdin, not as arguments
- * Cache out-of-view thumbnails in the background
- * Apply gamma correction to thumbnails
-
-**[v1.3.1](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v1.3.1.tar.gz)**
-*(November 16, 2014)*
-
- * Fixed build error, caused by delayed config.h creation
- * Fixed segfault when run with -c
-
-**[v1.3](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v1.3.tar.gz)**
-*(October 24, 2014)*
-
- * Extract thumbnails from EXIF tags (requires libexif)
- * Zoomable thumbnails, supported sizes defined in config.h
- * Fixed build error with giflib version >= 5.1.0
+Please see man page for information on how to use nsxiv. To do so, execute the
+following after the installation:
-**[v1.2](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v1.2.tar.gz)**
-*(April 24, 2014)*
+ $ man nsxiv
- * Added external key handler, called on keys prefixed with `Ctrl-x`
- * New keybinding `{`/`}` to change gamma (by András Mohari)
- * Support for slideshows, enabled with `-S` option & toggled with `s`
- * Added application icon (created by 0ion9)
- * Checkerboard background for alpha layer
- * Option `-o` only prints files marked with `m` key
- * Fixed rotation/flipping of multi-frame images (gifs)
-**[v1.1.1](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v1.1.1.tar.gz)**
-*(June 2, 2013)*
-
- * Various bug fixes
-
-**[v1.1](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v1.1.tar.gz)**
-*(March 30, 2013)*
-
- * Added status bar on bottom of window with customizable content
- * New keyboard shortcuts `\`/`|`: flip image vertically/horizontally
- * New keyboard shortcut `Ctrl-6`: go to last/alternate image
- * Added own EXIF orientation handling, removed dependency on libexif
- * Fixed various bugs
-
-**[v1.0](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v1.0.tar.gz)**
-*(October 31, 2011)*
-
- * Support for multi-frame images & GIF animations
- * POSIX compliant (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001)
-
-**[v0.9](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.9.tar.gz)**
-*(August 17, 2011)*
-
- * Made key and mouse mappings fully configurable in config.h
- * Complete code refactoring
-
-**[v0.8.2](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.8.2.tar.gz)**
-*(June 29, 2011)*
-
- * POSIX-compliant Makefile; compiles under NetBSD
-
-**[v0.8.1](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.8.1.tar.gz)**
-*(May 8, 2011)*
-
- * Fixed fullscreen under window managers, which are not fully EWMH-compliant
-
-**[v0.8](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.8.tar.gz)**
-*(April 18, 2011)*
-
- * Support for thumbnail caching
- * Ability to run external commands (e.g. jpegtran, convert) on current image
-
-**[v0.7](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.7.tar.gz)**
-*(February 26, 2011)*
-
- * Sort directory entries when using `-r` command line option
- * Hide cursor in image mode
- * Full functional thumbnail mode, use Return key to switch between image and
- thumbnail mode
-
-**[v0.6](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.6.tar.gz)**
-*(February 16, 2011)*
-
- * Bug fix: Correctly display filenames with umlauts in window title
- * Basic support of thumbnails
-
-**[v0.5](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.5.tar.gz)**
-*(February 6, 2011)*
-
- * New command line option: `-r`: open all images in given directories
- * New key shortcuts: `w`: resize image to fit into window; `W`: resize window
- to fit to image
-
-**[v0.4](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.4.tar.gz)**
-*(February 1, 2011)*
-
- * New command line option: `-F`, `-g`: use fixed window dimensions and apply
- a given window geometry
- * New key shortcut: `r`: reload current image
-
-**[v0.3.1](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.3.1.tar.gz)**
-*(January 30, 2011)*
+F.A.Q
+-----
- * Bug fix: Do not set setuid bit on executable when using `make install`
- * Pan image with mouse while pressing middle mouse button
+* Can I open remote urls with nsxiv? <br>
+Yes, see [nsxiv-url](https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv/wiki/nsxiv-url)
-**[v0.3](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.3.tar.gz)**
-*(January 29, 2011)*
+* Can I open all the images in a directory? <br>
+Yes, see [nsxiv-rifle](https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv/wiki/nsxiv-rifle)
- * New command line options: `-d`, `-f`, `-p`, `-s`, `-v`, `-w`, `-Z`, `-z`
- * More mouse mappings: Go to next/previous image with left/right click,
- scroll image with mouse wheel (horizontally if Shift key is pressed),
- zoom image with mouse wheel if Ctrl key is pressed
+* Can I set default arguments for nsxiv? <br>
+Yes, see [nsxiv-env](https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv/wiki/nsxiv-env)
-**[v0.2](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.2.tar.gz)**
-*(January 23, 2011)*
+* Can I pipe images into nsxiv? <br>
+No, not yet. See https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv/issues/32
- * Bug fix: Handle window resizes correctly
- * New keyboard shortcuts: `g`/`G`: go to first/last image; `[`/`]`: go 10
- images back/forward
- * Support for mouse wheel zooming (by Dave Reisner)
- * Added fullscreen mode
-**[v0.1](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/archive/v0.1.tar.gz)**
-*(January 21, 2011)*
+Download
+--------
- * Initial release
+You can [browse](https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv) the source code repository
+on GitHub or get a copy using git with the following command:
+ $ git clone https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv.git