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by drewg123 2503 days ago
I still use xv to open images from the command line. Its like muscle memory.
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I switched to the "display" command from the various image/graphics magic packages years ago, and now am frustratingly finding it has become unstable.

But, recently seeing some PBS specials on NASA and the planetary probes made me reminisce about "xv". I remember having downloaded images of the Shoemaker-Levy comet impact on Jupiter and browsing them with xv...