Xv

: Xv is also a common abbreviation for the X video extension.

Xv is a shareware program to display and modify digital images under the X Window System. At one point it was quite popular, but now it is somewhat outdated, as it hasn t been updated since December 1994 and several free alternatives exist. It was written by John Bradley. The home page is at http://www.trilon.com/xv/ .

Xv can be run from either the command line or through a graphical interface. It is quite similar to the more powerful ImageMagick in many ways, although it has a few features that ImageMagick and even The GIMP lack (but which really have no practical use or are no longer as useful as they used to be anyway).

Although most distributions no longer keep it, Xv is still present in Slackware Linux 10.0.