pv

Display a screen image

Syntax:

pv [-B] [-G] [-H] [-h height] [-P] [-p]
   [-Q] [-S] [-s server] [-t sec] [-w width]
   [-x x_pos] [-y y_pos] [filename]...

Options:

-B

Set the palette boundary.

-G

Get the palette from the image.

-H

Set hardware palette.

-h height

Set initial height of window to height pixels.

-P

Set the palette mode to global or force expose.

-p

Force load of /usr/photon/palette/default.pal.

-Q

Set the palette-based driver.

-S

Do NOT use shared memory.

-s server

Run pv on this server node or device name.

-t sec

Specify the time delay when displaying more than one image.

-w width

Set initial width of window to width pixels.

-x x_pos

Initial x_pos position of window.

-y y_pos

Initial y_pos position of window.

filename

Name of file to display.

Description:

The Photon image viewer displays bitmap image files on the Photon workspace. When you first start the viewer (without specifying an image filename), you'll see a File menu and an empty image area.

The File menu provides a File Selector mechanism for loading image files.

For more information about capturing screen images, see snapshot.

Examples:

Run pv using the Photon server on node 4:

pv -s4

Or

pv -s//4/dev/photon

Run pv at initial position (10,10) with initial dimension of 200*300:

pv -x10 -y10 -h200 -w300