Displaying an image on linux without running x [closed]

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does anyone know of a way to just display an image via command line or C? I can run video fine without running X with omxplayer but i would like to also display an image without having to load the desktop, either via C or something i can run from the shell

Answer 1

fbi, a frame-buffer image viewer, might do the trick for you.

Otherwise, you could try JPEG to ASCII for a rough viewing of JPEG images.

Answer 2

SVGAlib might be what you're looking for - a C graphics library that works without X11.

Answer 3

You can take a look to SDL that works pretty well on many platforms.

And if you want to make some funnier things, try PyGame, it is very easy to display/animate bitmap on screen with it (and it is in python which is well supported on RaspberryPi).