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a fast and light image viewer
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Feature request: Variable display times in slideshow mode #697

Closed 47tuc closed 1 year ago

47tuc commented 1 year ago

I'm displaying images from multiple directories with a title image for each directory. I'd like to be able to show the title image for a shorter time than the rest of the images in the directory. Perhaps with a list of title images in a separate file.

avlec commented 1 year ago

This seems like a very niche use case. I doubt there'd be any development effort from people in this project.

I would however encourage you to undertakes this endeavour yourself as it would be an interesting problem to solve if you're keen on programming.

derf commented 1 year ago

This. I understand your use case, but think that it is too niche to warrant further complicating the already large amount of configuration options feh provides. I also don't have the time to implement or maintain it. So this is a wontfix, sorry.

You can, however, already solve this with a bit of scripting, e.g. by running feh without --slideshow-delay and using an external script that knows about the image that feh is currently displaying (e.g. via --info "echo %F > $tmpfile") and passes SIGUSR1 ("next image") to feh after a suitable delay. I hope this helps.