feh is a light-weight, configurable and versatile image viewer. It is aimed at command line users, but can also be started from graphical file managers. Apart from viewing images, it can compile text and thumbnail listings, show (un)loadable files, set X11 backgrounds, and more.

feh is licensed under a variant of the MIT license.

feh v3.11.2

2025-09-09

feh-3.11.2.tar.bz2 (signature)

Fix zoom_fit not centering the image correctly if the window is larger than the image
Fix rendering bugs introduced by attempts to fix a --scale-down rendering issue in v3.11 and v3.11.1
Note that this fix comes at the cost of slightly more visible flashing in some cases where feh has to (re-)render an image multiple times, especially if a fixed size is forced by the window manager. While this behaviour can be annoying, it is certainly less annoying than incorrect image offets.
Thanks to Awal Garg for several joint debugging sessions related to the above rendering issues.

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Features

Various operation modes:
- Slideshow: Show all files in or below a directory, change slides with your keyboard or automatically after a delay
- Thumbnail: List files as clickable thumbnails
- List: ls-like output with image dimensions etc.
- Multiwindow: Open all images at once
optional HTTP/FTP support via libcurl
Can be used as wallpaper setter; supports rxvt transparency
Filelist support
Lots of configurable keyboard shortcuts; well usable without a mouse
Custom actions (shell commands), e.g. for sorting images

See the feh manual for details.

Download and Installation

feh has been packaged for a variety of distributions, including Arch Linux, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Ubuntu.

If you want or need to compile your own feh build from source, you can downolad the latest release here: feh v3.11.2 (signature). The development version is available as a Git repository at one of the following mirrors: finalrewind · Chaosdorf · GitHub.

In both cases, the README gives a list of dependencies, configuration options, and build and installation instructions.

Contribute

Please report bugs, feature requests or any other source code related stuff on the GitHub issue tracker. You can also send a mail to derf+feh at finalrewind dot org, though GitHub issues are preferred.