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tyo

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Registered: 2011-10-29

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[SOLVED] Portrait-orientation JPEG photos displayed wrongly (Xfce)

Hi all,

since a week or two, I'm encountering issues displaying photos taken in portrait orientation. It's not connected to a special camera, but happens for smartphone photos as well as pictures from a Nikon and a Canon DSLR. I'm using the Xfce DE.

• Ristretto: images are shown in correct orientation, but stretched to landscape format.

• Viewnior: images are shown in correct aspect ratio, but rotated by 90° into landscape orientation.

• Geeqie: images are displayed correctly.

All thumbnails in Thunar and in the Ristretto thumbnail bar are shown correctly.

Any ideas how to debug this? It might be a library update, because it started happening for Ristretto and Viewnior at the same time.
Downgrading libexif and libgphoto2 did not help, but it seems to be a bug how the EXIF orientation is read out/interpreted.

Last edited by tyo (2025-09-28 12:46:03)

lambdarch

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Re: [SOLVED] Portrait-orientation JPEG photos displayed wrongly (Xfce)

Hi, see https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/-/issues/145
It's an upstream bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/issues/278

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tyo

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From: Leipzig, Germany

Registered: 2011-10-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Portrait-orientation JPEG photos displayed wrongly (Xfce)

Thanks a lot! Downgrading gdk-pixbuf2 to version 2.42.12 solved the issue for now.