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1421

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borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer is this not possible for linux ?
ive installed all mediaplayers and they all kinda suck even vlc with skins
is there atleast a pictureviewer that removes all borders ?

alcornoqui

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Re: borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

Feh for images, mpv for video.

1421

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Re: borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

Feh for images, mpv for video.

both has the top bar
feh doesnt scale picture when i size it bigger/smaller
on mpv the sound icon is just an mute on/off and i kinda need to use mouse not keyboard

Last edited by 1421 (2019-03-24 23:25:28)

alcornoqui

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Re: borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

both has the top bar
feh doesnt scale picture when i size it bigger/smaller

Does "Settings > Window Manager Tweaks > Accesibility > Hide title of windows when maximized" make any difference?

Also, Feh has these options:

-Z, --auto-zoom  Zoom pictures to screen size in fullscreen / fixed geometry mode.
-x, --borderless  Create borderless windows.

On mpv:

--border, --no-border
    Play video with window border and decorations. Since this is on by default, use --no-border to disable the standard window decorations.

on mpv the sound icon is just an mute on/off and i kinda need to use mouse not keyboard

Mpv is totally customizable and keyboard friendly, don't be lazy! I don't even use mpv and it took me 30 seconds to find out you can increase/decrease volume with 9 and 0 (and mute with M).

i guess il live with it cause fuck windows 10

Lazy AND rude, hey, you can do better!

1421

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Re: borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

thank you for replying

--no-border acually did what i needed but same problem i cant scale when no-border is on
and i dont know how to do commands while player is running to turn on border, scale it, then turn it off again..

the problem is that id prefer to not go to terminal every time i click a video write mpv --no-border filepath then write boarder scale window then write --no-border again then same process if i have to resize it, when it should just be a doubleclick and a window stretch

but i guess im asking to much from free programs

ozjd

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Re: borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

Doesn't alt+right click let you re-size? Works on most windows, the alt can be replaced by another key in Window Manager Tweaks - Accessibility.

alcornoqui

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Re: borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

Hey, don't give up, I'm sure you can make both programs do what you want!

But I'm not sure I fully understand your desired workflow, could you elaborate or reword it? I think tweaking the configuration file may do it:

You can put all of the options in configuration files which will be read every time mpv is run. The system-wide configuration file 'mpv.conf' is in your configuration directory (/etc/mpv), the user-specific one is ~/.mpv/config.

As I said, I'm not an mpv (or feh) user myself, so I'm kinda shooting in the dark here. Good luck!

1421

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Registered: 2019-01-10

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Re: borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

Doesn't alt+right click let you re-size? Works on most windows, the alt can be replaced by another key in Window Manager Tweaks - Accessibility.

thanks good tip

1421

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Registered: 2019-01-10

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Re: borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

Hey, don't give up, I'm sure you can make both programs do what you want!

But I'm not sure I fully understand your desired workflow, could you elaborate or reword it? I think tweaking the configuration file may do it:

You can put all of the options in configuration files which will be read every time mpv is run. The system-wide configuration file 'mpv.conf' is in your configuration directory (/etc/mpv), the user-specific one is ~/.mpv/config.

As I said, I'm not an mpv (or feh) user myself, so I'm kinda shooting in the dark here. Good luck!

mpv doesnt have any borders il figure out the configs thank you

Skaperen

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Registered: 2013-06-15

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Re: borderless pictureviewer and mediaplayer

eog -f and many other things work fine for me in full screen mode.