fbida (image viewer for framebuffer console) The fbida project contains a few applications for viewing and editing images, with the main focus being photos: fbi – This is an image viewer for the Linux framebuffer console. fbgs – Script for viewing ps/pdf files on framebuffer console using fbi. exiftran – command line tool to do lossless transformations of JPEG images. ida (a Motif based image viewer for X11) is not included on purpose, as it needs Open Motif.