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I am running debian v10.0 on a raspberry pi. I have a directory of pictures with jpg, png and jpeg extensions. When I try to use display image.extension on any of them I get the error

display-im6.q16: unable to open x server @ error/display.c/DisplayImageCommand/433

display --verion returns

Version: ImageMagick 6.9.10-23 Q16

If I run startx into the GUI, I can right-click and open the images in both imageViewer and imageMagick.

How do I use display to view these images while in the command line?

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You must be running an "X windows server" for display to be able to display. That's why it works after startx.

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  • thank you. I noticed I could use display only while using a terminal in the GUI. I'm still learning my way around linux so I did not realize it would not work strictly via the commandline. Someone else recommended installing fbi which I tried out and it worked wonderfully. Thanks again. Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 22:10

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