Hello,
in my OpenSuse 12.3 I have a modified behaviour of the program display (memmber of the package ImageMagick), which wasn’'t like this in older versions…
To be more exact: when I run “display my_file.jpg” the program opens (as expected) a window with my file , BUT … after 1-2 seconda, it just resizes the file so that it is displayed entirely on the screen, BUT now the images gets deformed (mostly on the vertical…).
When opening the image, the window is as I remember from older versions of ImageMagick (a normal window, with the normal window title, proper window borders…); after “display” resizes the image, the window loses it’s borders, the window title-bar… and the most annoying, the image itself gets deformed (again: so that now it gets shown in full in that window — I would expect that the window with the image would be the old way: a certain dimension, and if the image has a resolution that doesn’t fit into those dimensions, just let me drag with the mouse to see the rest of the image !!. or maybe choose manually the resize option, so that it fits the screen.
Or else… just resize the image to fit the monitor screen, BUT with keeping the form factor, just like softwares like gwenview does when I resize the image…
Usually, my pictures (most of them taken with my photo camera), have the height larger then the width; typical resolutions are: 1536x2048
So, if my monitor resolution is 1680x1050, obviously the picture wouldn’t get into the screen, … and, again obviously, when ImageMagick’s display tries to resize the height … the image gets very flattened
If someone wonders why I’m still using display … it’s because I’m still using very intensely mc (midnight commander) … just go into my folder with images, press Enter on the desired jpg file and … wait for Imagemagick’ s display to popup with that image …
I’m 100% convnced the behaviour is due to changed Imagemagick (I have somewhere a saved (.tar file) settings of mc from older versions of OpenSuse (as old as from the year 2010 … when mc’s settings were in the folder /usr/share/mc …) and checked the current settings of mc (the file mc.ext, actually) and they are not different ! (at least in the part regarding opening image files…)
One more thing: After display does this resizing of the image, if I try the program’s options (you know, that menu that appears when I left-click into the image’s window …) : “View” >> " Original size"-- now the program displays the image just I expected; with the scroll feature to let me see the un-seen parts (that does not fit into the window due to extra height…); well, this is the older behavior of the program, in those older versions I mentioned above; and this I want to be able to set it.
Is there some command line options I can give to “display” so that it just displays the image this way ? This would be a proper solution, either, for this problem …