Looking For an Image Viewer That Does This...

mac57 · 2007-09-17 18:02:45

Hi All, I am looking for a non KDE image viewer that would be small and fast, and would allow me to select an image in the middle of a folder full of images, and then go backward or forward to the last/next image without having to preselect the images I want to view. Essentially, start anywhere in an image folder and be able to progress backward or forward as I wish.

KDE's Kuickshow does this, but I am looking for an XFCE4 friendly solution that will also do this. Something small and fast like feh or qiv, but with the ability to move around the folder of images, which neither of these provides unless you initially preselect the full set you want to look at.

Does anyone know of such an application that is not a KDE element? Thanks!

fwojciec · 2007-09-17 18:05:45

mirage - but you'll have to configure it to "Load all images in current directory"

mac57 · 2007-09-17 18:10:40

Hmmm, does it really preload all the images before showing anything? Lots of RAM, lots of time, if it does so.

fwojciec · 2007-09-17 18:15:08

I think it loads each image before displaying it - not sure though. I'm just using it on a folder with about 700MB of images and it works well, uses about 30MB of ram (so maybe it does preload...)

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RobbeR49 · 2007-09-17 18:21:40

gqview should do what you want, at least that's how it works for me.

buttons · 2007-09-17 18:39:31

gthumb does this as well.

smoon · 2007-09-17 20:26:24

buttons wrote:

gthumb does this as well.

So does Eye of GNOME.

pressh · 2007-09-17 20:42:02

Adding ristretto to the list

bartman · 2007-09-17 21:02:46

Another vote for Mirage. I find it does all I need regarding viewing, GIMP for manipulation.

thayer · 2007-09-17 21:09:22

mirage has the added advantage of drop-in custom commands. For example, if you use feh to manage your desktop wallpaper you can create a custom shortcut, such as Ctrl+Alt+w to set the current image as your background. The possibilities are endless and it's super fast.

magnum_opus · 2007-09-17 21:24:31

I use comix, it does what you want as well as being a .cbr/.cbz viewer

rson451 · 2007-09-17 22:46:45

feh! feh does this very well.

eyolf · 2007-09-18 01:10:04

How do you set up feh to do what the OP asked for? I would also love to have this function, but I haven't found a way around all the command line options to feh to get the desired effect: to open one picture and load the other pictures in the directory NOT to be preloaded, which feh seems to do, but to be appended to a viewing list.
Mirage seems to do the same if the "Load all pictures in directory" option is set: it takes a while before the first picture is displayed.

lilsirecho · 2007-09-18 01:59:36

Dunno if it works outa KDE but picasa does what you want....

stonecrest · 2007-09-18 02:09:47

mac57 wrote:

Hmmm, does it really preload all the images before showing anything? Lots of RAM, lots of time, if it does so.

No, of course it doesn't preload all the images. Just the next and previous in the list.

Cilyan · 2007-09-18 08:40:43

GPicView does it also very well. It's a clone of the Windows XP Image Preview.

eyolf · 2007-09-18 18:13:49

@smoon: That's the meanest avatar I've ever seen.

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