XnView Software

Is it possible to XnView read an image from "standard input" (stdin)?

I thought about a good workaround to "screen capturing" problem, but I will need XnView reading from standard input. My idea is simple. just run this on terminal:

$ sleep 2; xwd | xnview -

Where '-' would mean "read from stdin", just like most Linux utilities.

Above line does mean: wait 2 seconds, then, run xwd (X Window Dump) to capture the image. The output of xwd is redirected to input of XnView, which will open the image.

crazytb wrote:Is it possible to XnView read an image from "standard input" (stdin)?

I thought about a good workaround to "screen capturing" problem, but I will need XnView reading from standard input. My idea is simple. just run this on terminal:

$ sleep 2; xwd | xnview -

Where '-' would mean "read from stdin", just like most Linux utilities.

Above line does mean: wait 2 seconds, then, run xwd (X Window Dump) to capture the image. The output of xwd is redirected to input of XnView, which will open the image.

You can use nview with stdin
Pierre.

xnview wrote:You can use nview with stdin

You mean xwd | nview -in xwd stdin. This works, but I want XnView functionality (toolbars, save, filters...), which nview does not have.