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* Re: A new Slackware release is really starting to be required...Wayne Van Loon Sr.
+- Re: A new Slackware release is really starting to be required...Chris Elvidge
+- Re: A new Slackware release is really starting to be required...Rich
`* Re: A new Slackware release is really starting to be required...King Beowulf
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Subject: Re: A new Slackware release is really starting to be required...
From: wevlmusic@gmail.com (Wayne Van Loon Sr.)
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 by: Wayne Van Loon Sr. - Tue, 6 Jul 2021 18:21 UTC

On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:11:25 AM UTC-7, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:20:16 -0400, bleak_fire_ wrote:
> > Plus about half of the packages cited by FreeSlack are those older
> > programs, including xv which is mocked by the FSF.
> I really like xv myself, I use it almost every week to display some image
> file or to take a screen shot. There are other application which I could
> also use for this like gimp, but xv is quick to start. There are also
> lightweight applications like display, but display lacks many features
> that xv has. I have been using xv since I started with Slackware 3.0 and
> before that I was using xv on Solaris. If xv was removed from Slackware I
> would really miss it.
> > If they got rid of pasture and extra, unfree firmware, and removed
> > references to unfree sites (don't think there are any), it would be
> > very easy for Slackware to reach the purity needed for FSF approval,
> > I'd imagine.
> >
> > This would not just be about ethics, it would also give Slackware a real
> > popularity boost, and perhaps we would see more distros based on it or
> > increased academic use.
> There are already many distributions based on Slackware and many of them
> are minimal live systems which has removed packages from the Slackware
> they were built upon. Distrowatch only lists 11 Slackware based
> distributions at http://distrowatch.com/search.php?basedon=Slackware but
> there are more shown at
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
> commons/1/1bLinux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
>
> Basing a distribution upon another distribution is not so much about
> which packages the start distribution contains. It is more about package
> management, choice of basic stuff like kernel and init system. Making a
> new distribution out of another distribution is about adding and removing
> packages.
>
> There is no lack of distributions to choose from, maybe there are more
> distributions than Linux users :-)
> regards Henrik
> --
> The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is:
> hc351(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers:
> root@localhost postmaster@localhost
I too really liked XV. I recently built a system with Slackware64 current and noticed that XV is no longer there. Is there something comparable? Grab the whole screen or a window, crop, rotate, resize...?

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 by: Chris Elvidge - Tue, 6 Jul 2021 18:48 UTC

On 06/07/2021 07:21 pm, Wayne Van Loon Sr. wrote:
> On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:11:25 AM UTC-7, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:20:16 -0400, bleak_fire_ wrote:
>>> Plus about half of the packages cited by FreeSlack are those older
>>> programs, including xv which is mocked by the FSF.
>> I really like xv myself, I use it almost every week to display some image
>> file or to take a screen shot. There are other application which I could
>> also use for this like gimp, but xv is quick to start. There are also
>> lightweight applications like display, but display lacks many features
>> that xv has. I have been using xv since I started with Slackware 3.0 and
>> before that I was using xv on Solaris. If xv was removed from Slackware I
>> would really miss it.
>>> If they got rid of pasture and extra, unfree firmware, and removed
>>> references to unfree sites (don't think there are any), it would be
>>> very easy for Slackware to reach the purity needed for FSF approval,
>>> I'd imagine.
>>>
>>> This would not just be about ethics, it would also give Slackware a real
>>> popularity boost, and perhaps we would see more distros based on it or
>>> increased academic use.
>> There are already many distributions based on Slackware and many of them
>> are minimal live systems which has removed packages from the Slackware
>> they were built upon. Distrowatch only lists 11 Slackware based
>> distributions at http://distrowatch.com/search.php?basedon=Slackware but
>> there are more shown at
>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
>> commons/1/1bLinux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
>>
>> Basing a distribution upon another distribution is not so much about
>> which packages the start distribution contains. It is more about package
>> management, choice of basic stuff like kernel and init system. Making a
>> new distribution out of another distribution is about adding and removing
>> packages.
>>
>> There is no lack of distributions to choose from, maybe there are more
>> distributions than Linux users :-)
>> regards Henrik
>> --
>> The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is:
>> hc351(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers:
>> root@localhost postmaster@localhost
> I too really liked XV. I recently built a system with Slackware64 current and noticed that XV is no longer there. Is there something comparable? Grab the whole screen or a window, crop, rotate, resize...?
>

slackpkg search xv

--
Chris Elvidge
England

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 by: Rich - Tue, 6 Jul 2021 20:44 UTC

Wayne Van Loon Sr. <wevlmusic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:11:25 AM UTC-7, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:20:16 -0400, bleak_fire_ wrote:
>> > Plus about half of the packages cited by FreeSlack are those older
>> > programs, including xv which is mocked by the FSF.
>> I really like xv myself, I use it almost every week to display some image
>> file or to take a screen shot. There are other application which I could
>> also use for this like gimp, but xv is quick to start. There are also
>> lightweight applications like display, but display lacks many features
>> that xv has. I have been using xv since I started with Slackware 3.0 and
>> before that I was using xv on Solaris. If xv was removed from Slackware I
>> would really miss it.
>> > If they got rid of pasture and extra, unfree firmware, and removed
>> > references to unfree sites (don't think there are any), it would be
>> > very easy for Slackware to reach the purity needed for FSF approval,
>> > I'd imagine.
>> >
>> > This would not just be about ethics, it would also give Slackware a real
>> > popularity boost, and perhaps we would see more distros based on it or
>> > increased academic use.
>> There are already many distributions based on Slackware and many of them
>> are minimal live systems which has removed packages from the Slackware
>> they were built upon. Distrowatch only lists 11 Slackware based
>> distributions at http://distrowatch.com/search.php?basedon=Slackware but
>> there are more shown at
>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
>> commons/1/1bLinux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
>>
>> Basing a distribution upon another distribution is not so much about
>> which packages the start distribution contains. It is more about package
>> management, choice of basic stuff like kernel and init system. Making a
>> new distribution out of another distribution is about adding and removing
>> packages.
>>
>> There is no lack of distributions to choose from, maybe there are more
>> distributions than Linux users :-)
>> regards Henrik
>> --
>> The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is:
>> hc351(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers:
>> root@localhost postmaster@localhost

> I too really liked XV. I recently built a system with Slackware64
> current and noticed that XV is no longer there. Is there something
> comparable? Grab the whole screen or a window, crop, rotate,
> resize...?

XV has been moved to "extra":

https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/extra/xv/

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 by: King Beowulf - Wed, 7 Jul 2021 02:06 UTC

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 11:21:40 -0700 (PDT), Wayne Van Loon Sr. wrote:

> On Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:11:25 AM UTC-7, Henrik Carlqvist
> wrote:
....snip...
> I too really liked XV. I recently built a system with Slackware64
> current and noticed that XV is no longer there. Is there something
> comparable? Grab the whole screen or a window, crop, rotate, resize...?

Don't forget imagemagick included in slackware
https://imagemagick.org/index.php

$ magick [command] <source image> <options> <output image>

e.g. to just display

$ magick display [options] tux.png

Heck, you can even set up an alias(es) in ~/.bashrc to xv (left as an
exercise for the reader).

-kb

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 by: Mike - Wed, 7 Jul 2021 09:47 UTC

In article <sc327r$k7n$1@dont-email.me>,
King Beowulf <KingBeowulf@none.none> wrote:

>Don't forget imagemagick included in slackware
>https://imagemagick.org/index.php

>$ magick [command] <source image> <options> <output image>
>$ magick display [options] tux.png

> magick ATestPicture.png
magick: Command not found.

Which is odd, as I know I have it installed (and often use
convert/mogrify)

> ls -la /usr/bin/convert
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4712 Jan 26 2011 /usr/bin/convert
> ls -la /usr/bin/mogrify
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4712 Jan 26 2011 /usr/bin/mogrify

So ... I guess ...

> ls -la /usr/bin/display
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4712 Jan 26 2011 /usr/bin/display

*There* it is (and it works, I didn't even realise that was
there, thank you for the prompt, and noted as an alternative
to XV which is my go-to lightweight viewer) :)

This is on Slackware 13.37 and imagemagick-6.6.6_10, not
sure where/how the "magick" comes in as a command -- not
on my system :(

--
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Mike Brown: mjb[-at-]signal11.org.uk | http://www.signal11.org.uk

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 by: Aelius Gallus - Thu, 8 Jul 2021 00:43 UTC

Mike <mjb@signal11.invalid> wrote:
> In article <sc327r$k7n$1@dont-email.me>,
> King Beowulf <KingBeowulf@none.none> wrote:
>
>>Don't forget imagemagick included in slackware
>>https://imagemagick.org/index.php
>
>>$ magick [command] <source image> <options> <output image>
>>$ magick display [options] tux.png
>
>> magick ATestPicture.png
> magick: Command not found.
Try:
$ display ATestPicture.png

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 by: Mike Spencer - Thu, 8 Jul 2021 00:59 UTC

mjb@signal11.invalid (Mike) writes:

> In article <sc327r$k7n$1@dont-email.me>,
> King Beowulf <KingBeowulf@none.none> wrote:
>
>> Don't forget imagemagick included in slackware
>> https://imagemagick.org/index.php
>
>> $ magick [command] <source image> <options> <output image>
>> $ magick display [options] tux.png
>
>> magick ATestPicture.png
>
> magick: Command not found.
>
> Which is odd, as I know I have it installed (and often use
> convert/mogrify)
> [snip]
> ...not sure where/how the "magick" comes in as a command -- not on my
> system :(

"man ImageMagick" will reveal that (for recent releases anyhow) the
components of the suite are invoked individually.

I use display(1) all the time to view, resize & crop images -- just
what the OP was asking for. Less useful for dealing with color mods
but maybe I just don't know how to do it properly.

Only flaw in the oinkment is that every release that I've used (since
Slack 8 I think) has some annoying little change or outright bug. But
it's still my go-to for basic image stuff.

I've used the netpbm(1) suite a lot too, even written one of my own
tools for it, and gimp(1) a few times for tricky stuff. But both
demand a lot more serious brain engagement that display.

OTOH, I miss improces from MS-DOS times. Limited but versatile. Can
you detect which member of this group:

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/b/h/bhdavis/www/VCG.html

was inserted digitally with improces and DOS? (Okay, okay, you can
guess. :-)

--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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From: KingBeowulf@none.none (King Beowulf)
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Subject: Re: A new Slackware release is really starting to be required...
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 13:51:51 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: King Beowulf - Thu, 8 Jul 2021 13:51 UTC

On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 10:47:31 +0100 (BST), Mike wrote:

> In article <sc327r$k7n$1@dont-email.me>,
> King Beowulf <KingBeowulf@none.none> wrote:
>
>>Don't forget imagemagick included in slackware
>>https://imagemagick.org/index.php
>
>>$ magick [command] <source image> <options> <output image>
>>$ magick display [options] tux.png
>
>> magick ATestPicture.png
> magick: Command not found.
>
> Which is odd, as I know I have it installed (and often use
> convert/mogrify)
>
>> ls -la /usr/bin/convert
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4712 Jan 26 2011 /usr/bin/convert
>> ls -la /usr/bin/mogrify
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4712 Jan 26 2011 /usr/bin/mogrify
>
> So ... I guess ...
>
>> ls -la /usr/bin/display
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4712 Jan 26 2011 /usr/bin/display
>
> *There* it is (and it works, I didn't even realise that was there, thank
> you for the prompt, and noted as an alternative to XV which is my go-to
> lightweight viewer) :)
>
> This is on Slackware 13.37 and imagemagick-6.6.6_10, not sure where/how
> the "magick" comes in as a command -- not on my system :(

whoops...silly me! I'm on bleeding edge Slackware64-current and forgot
that many on USENET may still be using perfectly adequate older Slackware
versions.

With imagemagick-7.x the syntax changes a bit but the old programs are
still there as symlinks to 'magick' for compatibility.

'man imagemagick' will display the set of available sub-programs. For
imagemagick-7.1.0_2-x86_64-1 you have:

convert(1), compare(1), composite(1), conjure(1), identify(1),
import(1), magick(1), magick-script(1), montage(1), display(1),
animate(1), import(1), Magick++-config(1), MagickCore-config(1),
MagickWand-config(1)

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