Feh should be what you are looking for, it is command line based and full featured.
http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/wiki/FehFeatures http://packages.debian.org/feh [1] Yes. [2] I think so. [3] Yes: "feh -R 1 <image>" Reloads image every 1 second [4] I think so. Thanks, Stefhen