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ftornell

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Registered: 2008-08-18

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Name a good Imageviewer

Hi,
Does anyone have a name on good tiny imageviewer? Im running openbox.

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thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

feh works well, but it does have a learning curve.  It seems many who use it, use it just to set the wallpaper.  See this brief tutorial, http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/55737. and the feh man page.

I'll use Mirage when I don't want to use Picasa or Gimp.  Mirage is 716K and depends on pygtk and desktop-file utils.  Pygtk is a rather large package.

jack.mitchell

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From: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 156

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Re: Name a good Imageviewer

I like GPicView.

ArchArael

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Registered: 2005-06-14

Posts: 504

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

My favourite is Mirage. It supports also animated gifs.

I also use Comix because it can read images from several archives.

Another Openbox user here.

EDIT: By the way, when I need to check just one image I use display from ImageMagick. Quite useful.

Last edited by ArchArael (2009-11-10 13:52:48)

SoleSoul

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-29

Posts: 319

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

+1 gpicview.
small, fast, few dependencies.
It's the default image viewer for LXDE.

Andrwe

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From: Leipzig/Germany

Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 322

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Re: Name a good Imageviewer

+1 mirage for complex picture view
+1 feh for simply view a picture

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N30N

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 273

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

I've never understood why gliv isn't more popular among archers. That's my pick anyway.

If you do search, there are threads like this already.

apaige

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 96

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

gliv is very fast and smooth, but its UI sucks.

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

Feh, if you do not need support for animated images.  Ristretto, if you do.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-11-10 16:18:58)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

qiv
Who needs a UI? Who needs thumbnail browsing?
I use mplayer for animated gifs.

basov

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 30

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

viewnior is nice

also does anim gif

Renan Birck

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 401

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Re: Name a good Imageviewer

I'm with Ristretto, it's enough for me. When I need to do quick editing on a photo I use showFoto (from digiKam) but it likely to be overhead on Linux.

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ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

Geeqie is worth a try (and press Ctrl-H if you like minimal UI

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

+1 for geeqie.

From my personal and subjective experience it seems to be one of the fastest viewers around.

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JohnVV

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From: Ann Arbor, Mi. U.S.A.

Registered: 2009-09-30

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Re: Name a good Imageviewer

OpenEV

that one is fun

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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

+1 for geeqie.

From my personal and subjective experience it seems to be one of the fastest viewers around.

+1 as well, it's the fastest viewer i've come across.  i dont think it supports animated gifs though, does it? i havent really looked into that

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makimaki

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2009-04-02

Posts: 109

Re: Name a good Imageviewer

fbi
it's ridiculously fast. It only works in the framebuffer, but it is great if you're in an X free environment.

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rent0n

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-10-29

Posts: 457

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Re: Name a good Imageviewer

I am looking for the right image viewer too, and it's not that easy.

Can't use Ristretto (though I normally use xfce apps) nor Mirage cause their mouse scrolling works in the wrong direction (do you know what I mean)?

I've been a long-time GPicView user but I'm starting to hate that unhideable toolbar and I can't stand that zooming doesn't follow mouse pointer.
Switched to Geeqie (the successor of GQview) that is still quite fast (not as GPicView) and has some nice features, *BUT* it can't open multiple images in multiple windows when browsing pictures from your file manager --> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93496

I was starting to give up my research but yesterday I tried the new Crunchbang Statler and the new Slitax on my VirtualBox and discovered that both of them use an awesome image viewer: Viewnior
It is lighting fast (like GPicView), scrolling zooms in the right direction, zooming follows mouse pointer, has a minimal interface and mouse customizable actions.
The only thing is that you can't hide the menubar, but that's a minor point and I've filled a blueprint for that.
You can find it in the AUR. Really hope to see it in [community] soon!

Last edited by rent0n (2010-03-21 22:23:10)

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sironitomas

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From: Cordoba, Argentina

Registered: 2009-11-28

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Re: Name a good Imageviewer

Qiv is incredibly good... thats right, who needs ui?

zulqurnain

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Registered: 2016-11-15

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Re: Name a good Imageviewer

thanks for the viewnior tip. i like it

Trilby

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Re: Name a good Imageviewer

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