https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/
Article
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FIM is an improved fork of fbi, a Linux framebuffer image viewer
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Runs without X11/Wayland — pure framebuffer, useful for minimal/headless setups
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Supports many image formats and scriptable configuration
Discussion
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One commenter goes weeks without a graphical desktop using framebuffer tools like mplayer -fp
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Question raised: should modern implementations use DRM instead of framebuffer?
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Kitty terminal graphics protocol mentioned as a related approach for terminal image rendering
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