View image on your Pi remotely over SSH

So you think you have captured a few good pictures with Pi Cam using the simple command raspistill -o image.jpg and now you want to view it quickly? So you think you can use all the available command prompt picture viewers like fbi, fim, w3m work well? Well, none of them will work without additional code-tweaking, hair-pulling, keyboard-bashing trials and errors.

Try this stress-free viewer:

SSH -X into your pi: ssh -X pi@yourpiname.local

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install feh

You must enable x11 forwarding. SSH into to your remote computerm then do the following:

sudo nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config

Uncomment the following line by deleting the # symbol:

#X11Forwarding No

Or in newer version:

# ForwardX11 no

Change No to Yes

To view all images stored in your user home directory in default slide-show mode:

feh ~/*.*

We like SIMPLE! Don’t you? Another decent alternative is eog

If you like complex: http://man.finalrewind.org/1/feh/

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