This set of scripts is used along lf to generate image previews and much like vifmimg it is able to handle image, video and ebook previews.

When a SSH-connection has been established, chafa will be used instead.

Besides lf and Überzug you will need to install the following packages:

• ffmpegthumbnailer
• ImageMagick
• poppler
• epub-thumbnailer
• wkhtmltopdf
• bat (optional - color highlight for text files)
• chafa (optional - for image preview over SSH or inside Wayland session)
• unzip (optional - for .zip and .jar files)
• 7z (optional - for .7z files)
• unrar (optional - for .rar files)
• catdoc (optional - for .doc files)
• docx2txt (optional - for .docx files)
• odt2txt (optional - for .odt and *.ods files)
• gnumeric (optional - for .xls and .xlsx files)
• exiftool (optional - for music files)
• iso-info (optional - for .iso files)
• transmission (optional - for .torrent files)
• mcomix (optional - for .cbz and .cbr files)

In the project directory you can run the following command:

make install

To install this to your system, or you can do it manually by following the guide below:

1. Extract the following files: cleaner, preview to ~/.config/lf/.
2. Extract lfrun to a directory that is in your $PATH variable (such as /usr/bin).
3. Edit your ~/.config/lf/lfrc file and add the following lines:

set previewer ~/.config/lf/preview
set cleaner ~/.config/lf/cleaner

4. In order to launch lf with image preview support from now on, you will need to use the supplied lfrun script.

I recommend that you make an alias in your shell that points to lfrun.

• lf
• Seebye's Überzug
• Brodie's initial preview script which I used as a template for handling the miscellaneous filetypes that this script also handles.