Xv

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xv

xv running on Linux
Developer:	John Bradley
Latest release:	3.10a
OS:	Unix-like
Use:	Image viewer
License:	Shareware
Website:	www.trilon.com/xv/

The correct title of this article is xv. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

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

xv is a shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System. While initially popular, it has become dated and has not been updated since December 1994. Bradley was unable to negotiate the LZW licence necessary for decoding the then-popular GIF format.

xv can be run from either the command line or through a graphical interface. It is similar to ImageMagick in many ways, although it has a few features that ImageMagick and The GIMP lack. xv is still present in Slackware Linux 11.0 and SUSE Linux 10.0, although it is no longer bundled with most distributions as several free alternatives exist.