Questions tagged [eog]
`eog` stands for Eye of GNOME, which is the default GNOME image viewer.
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How to add WebP support to Eye of GNOME?
WebP image files are becoming more and more common on the web. Eye of GNOME (eog) doesn't support it out-of-the-box. Some browsers do, and ImageMagick as well by just installing the webp package (...
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Low quality image rendering in gthumb/eog
I am having problems with image quality when reducing images or zooming out in certain applications. It looks almost as if the image is not being smoothed or anti-aliased.
On the left is gthumb/eog (...
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Zoom in on small photos without losing pixel crispness
I'm working on some pixel art but when I preview it in something like eye of gnome, the image gets blurry instead of showing crisp pixels. I know this sounds backwards, but how do I prevent that?
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What's keeping Shotwell from replacing EOG?
I have noticed that Shotwell has a pretty capable image viewer but EOG is still used for opening image files, which means Ubuntu's default install has two apps for the same purpose.
I wonder why ...
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Image colors are wrong in 'eog'
When I open an image file in eog it displays the wrong color.
Here is a screenshot of the problem:
And here is a screenshot of the problem temporarily fixed:
by using
xprop -root -remove ...
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Can't open .jpg files extracted from an .iso, what to do?
Recently, I extracted some pictures from an .iso file, but I can't see them. When I try to open these .jpg files with Image Viewer, it shows me this error:
Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a ...
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Opening images sorted by modification date/size/type/etc
Suppose I have a folder with pictures. If I sort them by name once I open one with Image Viewer and navigate to the others the order is respected. But if I sort my files by modification date, for ...
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Changing mouse behaviour in EOG
When I open a photo in eog I can easily zoom with the mouse mouse wheel. This is kind of nice but since I have a touchpad with two-fingered scrolling and horizontal scrolling I'd rather scroll in the ...
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Image viewer with mousewheel scrolling
Is there an image viewer which allows the user to scroll the zoomed image using the mouse wheel?
It's a crucial functionality, which I'm missing in EOG, gThumb etc...
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Ubuntu 22.04: Both eye of gnome and gimp failing with undefined symbol error
Since a few days both eog and gimp fail when launched from the command line. I get the same error message from both:
gimp: symbol lookup error: /snap/core20/current/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so....
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View images fit to width in Image Viewer
How can I make the Image viewer fit all images to width?
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Fix animated GIF images which eog can't open, but Firefox and ImageMagick can
I received a collection of animated GIF images from a friend, but I am unable to open some of them them with the standard image viewer eog.
The error messages showing up when trying to open them ...
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.jpg image error "Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x52 0x49)"
Whenever i click on image to see, this error pops up:
Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x52 0x49)
i'm not able to see all the image. please can someone help ...
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Eye Of Gnome (eog) keyboard shortcuts
Does there exists some list of keyboard shortcuts? I want to know how to turn photos (and other manipulations). I couldn't google it.
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image viewer: mouse wheel to move back and forward
In the gnome image viewer (3.2.0), I would like to change these shortcuts for next/prev image to use the mousewheel. I would also like to change it in shotwell if possible. Current the mousewheel is ...
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EOG (Image Viewer) fails to open gif files with incorrect png extension - how can I solve this?
I have a bunch of files that have .png extension. However, some of them are actually gif files. I can open any of the files with gimp or view them in firefox, but when I try to open them with the Eye ...
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Eog how to control delay between slides in a slideshow from command line?
eog --fullscreen --slide-show $ORDNER1/out/
In have in my /out folder animated GIF files and I'd like to show all files as a slide show. EOG has a fix time between slides but my animations are longer....
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Open EOG preferences panel on ubuntu 18.04
This is a very odd one for me. I just installed a new system under ubuntu 18.04, and with it the last version of eog.
I want to remove the automatic filtering when zooming it, and I know it is in the ...
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How can I print svg files from command line using image viewer (eog) or lpr?
Is it possible to print an svg file via image viewer (i.e. eye of gnome) from the command line, or by using lpr?
The underlying problem is that I have a directory with many svg files in it and want ...
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Image Viewer - Automatically fill window with image
When I maximise an Image Viewer window, the picture stays the same size. In the view options none of them seem to make the image just fill the window.
I can zoom in but that is quite irritating as I ...
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Cannot open PNG files with imageviewer [closed]
When I try to open PNG files, I double click them, then nothing happens. I have to go to "Open with" and select F-spot photoviewer to view PNG files.
This is eog, eye of gnome, correct? How can I ...
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Having trouble opening images in Ubuntu command line
When I'm trying to open an image in Ubuntu command line using the command eog filename.jpg, I get an error reading
Cannot open display:
Could someone please advise what else I need to run before ...
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gnome-open Works, but also produces error messages [GTK_IS_WIDGET(widget) fails & EOG-WARNING]
I am currently using gnome-open to open all files for which I do not know the default program (or can't remember it at the time).
With file extension .pdf, gnome-open opens the file in my PDF ...
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How can I delete an image with Eye of Gnome / EOG?
I'm on Ubuntu 17.10 and I wonder how I can delete an image with Eye of Gnome / EOG, I press del keyboard button, but nothing happens. Also there is no option for delete on the menu:
My EOG version is:...
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How can I remove eog without breaking the Unity-2D session?
On my Ubuntu 11.10 install, I want to use gpicview instead of eog. Therefore, I'd like to remove eog. Whenever I do sudo apt-get remove eog though, I'm notified that doing this will also remove ubuntu-...
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How can I get Eye of Gnome to open each figure in a new window?
I frequently open several (~10) figures that I want to compare. I have always generated them using an eps format then used evince to open the set I want to compare using something like
evince set1*....
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View images and captions
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 (x86_64, kernel 4.15.0-50-generic). The default image viewer is EOG.
In a directory I stored some images and a text file for each image, with the caption.
Is it possible to ...
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Fan speed goes up when opening GNOME Image Viewer
Maybe someone can help me to control the fan speed of my Dell Vostro 3450 with Ubuntu 11.10 X64 installed. When I open GNOME Image Viewer my fan speed is going up and spinning very fast.
I would like ...
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Image viewer loads slowly or not at all with larger images 20.04
Image Viewer / EoG seems to be the only affected program
The issue started recently.
Smaller images are loading a little slowly, greater than 10mb do not load at all, and seem to hang the program/ ...
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How can I change the Eye of Gnome (image viewer) default initial window size?
I use my laptop monitor (resolution 1366 x 768) as a secondary display. When I open an image in this display, the image viewer window only shows part of the image and the top bar of the window is cut ...
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Can't use eog "Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused()"
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.
I'm trying to view some images with eog and getting the error below
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
(eog:736): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:38:12.816: ...
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(eog:4461): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display when trying to use eog to open images on Windows via SSH [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 And when I try to use eog to open images on windows 10 While using SSH it says:
Failed to connect to Mir: Failed to connect to server socket: no such file or directory
Unable ...
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Larger thumbnails in Image Viewer (eog) or gThumb
I'm looking at images in full-screen mode with the thumbnail strip - both gThumb and eog work well, but the thumbnails are very small. So:
In eog, I go to [bar menu] > image gallery. The thumbnails ...
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Eye of gnome does not autorefresh image
Ever since I upgraded from Ubuntu 13 to 15.10, Eye of GNOME stopped autorefreshing images when they are being overwritten by another program while being opened.
I did check the "refresh image" plugin ...
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is there a basic photo viewer that lets you flag individual photos for batch processing?
What I am looking for is a quick and simple photo viewer, like the default Eye of Gnome, but with the one extra feature of being able to press a key on some of the photos to toggle a "selection" flag, ...
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Opening a PNG file with eog where the filename has colon
I have a PNG file that will not show the content in eog and the program reports an error "No images found in". It seems to be a problem with the colon in the filename. With bash, I try:
eog "scholia-...
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Eye of Gnome zoom 100% gone in Ubuntu 15.10?
The other day I finally upgraded from 15.04 to 15.10. I've opened up an image today using Image Viewer (eog version 3.16.3) and found that the button to scale 1:1 or 100% (don't remember what it was ...
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Gnome Imageviewer 3.36.3 cannot open svg file
Using Ubuntu 20.04 to analyse start-up performance, I ran the following systemd command:
sudo systemd-analyze plot > systemd-analyze-plot.svg
However the default native Gnome image viewer/Eye of ...
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Slow Image Opening with xdg-open/ eog in Folder of many Files
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and I have a folder with many .png and .json files (+100k in total, no sub-folder within the folder).
When I tried to open one of its .png images with xdg-open abc.png or eog ...
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Next & Previous Image doesn't work properly
Let's assume I have 15 images in a folder. I opened an image located in 10th index. When I hit (right key) or click the right/left arrow in an image they just don't work.
I have a feeling that it ...
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Modify Eye-of-Gnome (EoG) keyboard shortcuts
tl;dr version:
How should I modify the keyboard shortcuts of Eye-of-Gnome (EoG)
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More info:
As noted here, Spacebar will not be supported as a shortcut for viewing the next image.
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Eye of Gnome - color washed out
I'm having problems with Eye of Gnome, the image viewer. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04. Unfortunately, the colors seems washed out, the images seem to lack contrast. This problem only happens with Eye of ...
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Images appear discoloured in Image Viewer
Every image I open using Image Viewer is discoloured. It appears more green-ish and purple-ish. I am using Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS.
EOG image on the left, Firefox on the right:
How can I solve this?
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Image Viewer (eog) causes lightdm to restart
When I open an image and without zooming, try to drag to any border (which is ofcourse, by mistake), eog closes and a black screen appears** that says lightdm is starting, and lands me in login screen....
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Eog random slideshow from the terminal
What is the best way to have Eye of Gnome Graphics viewer (EOG) open a folder full of images in a randomized slide-show from the terminal?
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Will a Gnome 4 snap run with Gnome 3?
I want to try a more recent image viewer, Eye Of Gnome (eog) version 4. My computer is running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS which uses Gnome version 3.
I removed eog 3.36.3 using
sudo apt remove eog
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Scripting Gnome Image Viewer in a dual screen setup
I am attempting to use the eye of gnome command to open two instances of the image viewer on two separate displays. Trouble is, if I use the command:
eog -s --display=DVI-0 image.jpg
it states it ...
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Can you recommend a fullscreen images viewer that can save an image with the press of a single key?
I have a workflow in which I need to examine large numbers of PNG images fullscreen. When I see an image of interest I need to save that PNG image to another directory. Right now I am using Eye of ...
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Where is the 1:1 zoom button in Image Viewer in Ubuntu 16.04?
I want to use the 1:1 zoom in Image Viewer (eog). But i can't find the icon (or the option), which used to be there in the 14.04 release. Where is it?
Compare it with this image:
This has the "1" ...
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Auto-open Newly Saved Image File from Scanner via Terminal Commands
I want to start a scan from a terminal and view the image automatically upon completion. How can I do this without knowing the saved filename? I am currently running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS locally on my ...
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