Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop & rotate)

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> Each ripped CD in my music collection is accompanied by a high
>> resolution scan of the album's cover.  There is a new plugin for gmpc
>> that displays that cover art at full screen on my HDTV.  As the huge
>> cover art images appear on the TV, I notice one or more sides that
>> need to be cropped, or that the cover needs to be slightly rotated.
>> I'd like to be able to edit those images as I notice problems with
>> them, but I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
>> to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
>> it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
>> allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).
>>
>> Any ideas?  imagemagick comes to mind.  Is there a script or even a
>> GUI I could run on the HDTV system that might be able to crop and/or
>> rotate quickly and easily?
>
> Imagemagick would probably work (man convert). If you have gimp
> installed on your mediapc you could always start gimp on that and use X
> (depending if you allow X-forwarding in your sshd_config). Otherwise you
> could do like Stroller suggests (NFS or Samba).

Great idea, I installed gimp and enabled X-forwarding and it's great.
I've got a couple X-forwarding questions I'm going to post about.

- Grant