tUse sxiv for viewing animated gifs. - plumber - simple plumber tool
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 (DIR) commit 9a21075daadb9044c460bc378fe00a7a84495fe9
 (DIR) parent 35db6374453e4d2a9b9b161ea27133433fa38b53
 (HTM) Author: parazyd <parazyd@dyne.org>
       Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 16:05:30 +0200
       
       Use sxiv for viewing animated gifs.
       
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         M p                                   |      10 ++++++++--
       
       1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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 (DIR) diff --git a/p b/p
       t@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ gopher://*)
                        $TERMCMD sh -c "curl -s '$clip' | less" &
                        ;;
                *.gif|*.GIF)
       -                curl -s "$clip" | gifview -a - &
       +                f="$(mktemp /tmp/XXXX.gif)"
       +                curl -s "$clip" > "$f"
       +                sxiv -a "$f"
       +                rm -f "$f"
                        ;;
                *)
                        $TERMCMD sacc "$clip" &
       t@@ -48,7 +51,10 @@ http://*|https://*)
                        mpv "$clip" &
                        ;;
                *.gif|*.GIF)
       -                curl -Ls "$clip" | gifview -a - &
       +                f="$(mktemp /tmp/XXXX.gif)"
       +                curl -Ls "$clip" > "$f"
       +                sxiv -a "$f"
       +                rm -f "$f"
                        ;;
                *www.youtube.com*|*vimeo.com*|*dailymotion.com*)
                        mpv "$clip" &