Open directory in thumbnail mode

[ViciousBadger]

Hello!

Migrating from nsxiv, I miss the ability to open all images in a directory in thumbnail mode directly from the command line.

I have a little workaround that almost works: Opening vimiv with this command: vimiv --command 'open-selected' --command 'enter thumbnail' $directory. It works only when the directory does not contain any subdirectories, because otherwise, vimiv will enter the first subdirectory and open an empty thumbnail view..

[luravoid]

here is my workaround:

#!/bin/sh

directory=$(pwd)

first_image=$(find "$directory" -type f \( -iname "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.png" -o -iname "*.jpeg" \) | sort | head -n 1)

if [ -n "$first_image" ]; then
	vimiv --command "open '$first_image'" --command 'enter thumbnail' --command 'toggle library'
else
	echo "No image files found in directory: $directory"
fi

[ViciousBadger]

Thanks! Works very well with an additional -maxdepth 1 to prevent accidentally opening subdirectories :)