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 v3.13

2026-09-07

feh-3.13.tar.bz2 (signature)

Switch default font from yudit to NotoSans Medium, and bundle its ttf file with feh. NotoSans has much better Unicode support than yudit, covering pretty much all of Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts. Note that it does not support Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts -- please use the (not-yet-bundled) Noto CJK font family for those. yudit.ttf remains present to retain compatibility with users who have hardcoded it in themes, shell aliases, and feh commands in general.
Add new "make install" option: install_fonts=0 (default 1) skips installation of the bundled NotoSans-Medium.ttf and yudit.ttf files to font_dir. This may be helpful for distributions who wish to introduce a dependency on a system-wide NotoSans package instead. Note that this will increase feh's dependency footprint by far more than the single ttf file it uses, though. You should also make provisions to retain yudit.ttf where feh expects it (see above).
The font_path used within "make" can now be overridden from the commandline.

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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 v3.13 (signature). The development version is available as a Git repository at one of the following mirrors: finalrewind · Codeberg · 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.