Configuring Feh

November 10, 2020

In lieu of a file listing configuration settings, the image viewer feh does something I’ve never seen anywhere else. The config file lists “themes”, which are named sets of arguments. You can list as many themes as you like, giving each a unique name.

My list:

# ~/.config/feh/themes

fehp --keep-zoom-vp --force-aliasing --draw-filename --draw-tinted

I only have one theme named “fehp” (the p stands for “pixelated”). To use the theme, make a symlink to the feh executable, and name the symlink after the theme:

$ ln -s $(which feh) ~/bin/fehp

Now I can run fehp and it will be equivalent to running:

$ feh --keep-zoom-vp --force-aliasing --draw-filename --draw-tinted