Re: Image viewers

"Githin Alapatt" <[email protected]>
writes:

> I bought a new 7.1 MP digicam. It takes a lot of time to view an

drool!!

Which? I was just gifted (by myself) a 6.1 MP one from Kodak.

> image, the performance of gthumb is very bad when showing large
> images. It takes about a minute to get an image after i click
> next. I attribute it also to my laptop which is only a 1.4 Ghz
> Celeron. Is

What is the size of the images you are trying to view? I still use a
800Mhz PIII with 256 MB ram, and it is reasonably fast.

> there any better software which works faster. I tried paul and found
> it ok. Is there any better one? I am using ubuntu.

Try fbi from the console (the real one - which you ought to get from
alt+ctl+F[1-6].

For others, check output of `apt-cache search view |grep image`

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