On Wed 24 May 2017 at 18:57:01 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 May 2017 at 17:28:52 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > > > I installed and have been using feh as a stop-gap until the Debian > > repositories catch up to upstream and/or fix the problem in Stretch. > > Been working just fine, with its limitations. It's better than a black > > desktop. :) I had to read the man page a couple of times and try it > > another couple of times to make it work, but work it does. > > I prefer to keep feh off my systems; its description is a lie. > > feh - image viewer and cataloguer > > It's an editor that has no concept of a buffer, but just scribbles > over the original file. And, IIRC, the error message, when thwarted > by a read-only file, is incorrect: it blames the permissions of > the directory, not the file.
The description is not intended to deceive and the limited editing functions are described in the manual. Scribbling can be avoided (Ctrl+2 in the manual): https://github.com/derf/feh/issues/86 -- Brian.