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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#advanced"/>
    <title type="sort">Command Line</title>
    <desc>The <cmd>eog</cmd> command can open any number of images in various modes.</desc>

    <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.1" date="2011-09-05" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
    <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
    <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Fabiana Simões</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

<title>The command line</title>

<p>
To start the <app>Image Viewer</app> from the
<app>Terminal</app>, type
<cmd>eog</cmd>.</p>
<p>
You can open a specific file by typing the filename after the <cmd>eog</cmd> command:
</p>
<screen>eog image.jpeg</screen>
<p>
You can open a specific folder by typing the folder name after the <cmd>eog</cmd> command:
</p>
<screen>eog folder</screen>
<p>To see all the images in a folder at once, you may wish to <link 
xref="view#image-gallery">browse
the image gallery</link>.</p>

<section id="fullscreen">
    <title>Open an image in fullscreen mode</title>
    <screen>eog --fullscreen image.jpeg</screen>
</section>
<section id="disable-gallery">
    <title>Open image with gallery disabled</title>
    <screen>eog --disable-gallery image.jpeg</screen>
</section>
<section id="new-instance">
    <title>Open image in a new instance</title>
    <screen>eog --new-instance image.jpeg</screen>
</section>
<section id="slide-show">
    <title>Open a folder in slideshow mode</title>
    <screen>eog --slide-show Pictures/</screen>
</section>
</page>