feh calls wget with "--cache 0" which is no longer supported. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. feh http://bugs.gentoo.org/skins/custom/gentoo-header.png Actual Results: $ feh http://bugs.gentoo.org/skins/custom/gentoo-header.png feh WARNING: url: wget failed to load URL http://bugs.gentoo.org/skins/custom/gentoo-header.png feh - No loadable images specified. Use feh --help for detailed usage information Expected Results: The picture is displayed. Relevant patch (for src/imlib.c) can be found here: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/feh/feh-1.3.4-svn-fixes.patch?view=markup Also fixes the problem with feh -Q.
The test commands you gave, work fine again with feh-1.3.5_p20100301 (now in portage). So closing.