The ubiquitous and time-honored XV is the industry-leading program for
fast, no-nonsense image display in the X Window System. It can operate on
many image formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM,
XPM, X11 bitmap, Sun Rasterfile, Targa, BPM, RGB, BMP, PCX, FITS, and PM,
on all known types of X displays.
Enable snaps on elementary OS and install XV Image Viewer
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Enable snapd
Snap can be installed on elementary OS from the command line. Open Terminal from the Applications launcher and type the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
Install XV Image Viewer
To install XV Image Viewer, simply use the following command: