feh

A fast, lightweight image viewer for X11.

feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer for X11. It can show single images, slideshow directories, render thumbnails, and crucially is also widely used to set the desktop wallpaper on tiling window managers like i3, dwm, and bspwm where the window manager itself does not render the desktop.

Tom Gilbert started feh as a fork of gibert. The project is now maintained by the resurrecting-open-source-projects organisation on GitHub, which has kept it healthy after periods of upstream inactivity. The codebase remains small and focused.

The "feh as wallpaper setter" use case dominates the daily-driver side of feh's reputation: many minimal X11 setups have a single line in their startup script (feh --bg-fill ~/Pictures/wall.jpg) that handles wallpaper for the entire session. Wayland setups use swaybg or hyprpaper for the same job.

License: MIT-feh

Category: Graphics

Website: https://feh.finalrewind.org/

Install

Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install feh
Fedora/RHEL:   sudo dnf install feh
Arch:          sudo pacman -S feh

Authors

Tom Gilbert (creator)
feh maintainers

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