im.show fails in absence of xv

[Wouter van Heyst]

In PIL/Image.py you'll find _showxv being used to actually throw up an image viewer. This function hardcodes the 'xv' viewer, which afaik has been removed from the (debian) archive a long time ago on account of non-freeness. My personal copy has patched it to use `display` from imagemagick since I use that anyway. Whatever is decided, a Suggests might be in order too.

[Jason Ribeiro (jrib)]

I can confirm this behavior in latest feisty.

[Jason Ribeiro (jrib)]

still present in latest gutsy

[Mahendra (mahendra-m)]

Simple solution would be to create a symlink for gqview or eog in /usr/bin/
$ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/gqview /usr/bin/xv

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-imaging - 1.1.6-1ubuntu4

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python-imaging (1.1.6-1ubuntu4) hardy; urgency=low

  * Search for available image viewers. LP: #67755.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:29:57 +0000

[miasma (miasma)]

I ran into this problem recently (March 2009) and discovered the PIL Image module's _showxv function (called by the show() function) will also accept eog, gqview or gwenview as viewers besides the nonfree xv. I just installed gqview and it worked fine for my purposes.

[Dan Halbert (dhalbert)]

Reopening. See next comment.

[Dan Halbert (dhalbert)]

Never mind reopening. Filing a new, more precise bug about issues with eog.

[Endolith (endolith)]

ln -s /usr/bin/xdg-open ~/bin/xv

Then it opens in whatever viewer you have associated with image files, and you don't need to modify any system files.

[Endolith (endolith)]

Actually that doesn't work. It was displaying the _showxv error previously, then I added this link, and now it opens in Eye of Gnome no matter what I do, even if I delete the link.