Questions tagged [image-viewers]
This tag is for image viewing applications in general. If your question is about a specific image viewer, use the tag for that app, for example eog for Eye of Gnome
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Is there an image viewer for ubuntu that will read/apply xmp sidecars?
I tweaked a bunch of Jpeg images in Darktable, which offers non-destructive photo editing. I would like to view my images in a simpler program, like gthumb, but although gthumb says it can read xmp ...
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AVIF support on Ubuntu 20.04?
I have a few AVIF files. I can view them in Firefox, but I want to be able to open them in some image viewer/editor, and eventually convert them into another graphics format.
On Ubuntu Forums, I found ...
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How to find out if image has black borders?
On Ubuntu 22.04, I'm trying to find a solution for finding out if an image has a black border around it. On Windows, I used to use MS Office Picture Manager. When an image is opened up in Picture ...
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Screen Readability: Overlay transparant layer
I was wondering whether it'd be possible to overlay transparent images over folders, the desktop, browser, etc.
Sort of like an image viewer, just transparent.
This question arose since I'm trying to ...
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Compare different directory images side by side using XnView MP
I am trying to compare two images side by side. This answer suggested XnView MP. It works great when I want to compare two images in a single directory. I select the two images in the browser and then ...
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Image viewer supporting tiled gallery from multiple folders
I am looking for an image viewer which offers all of the following features.
Tiled image gallery
Images from multiple directories
Possible to delete the selected image from the file system
Which ...
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How to view all images in a folder in order they are in displayed in a folder?
I've faced a weird (in my assumption) thing while scrolling through some photos in a folder.
I've ripped photos from a trip from my phone and my spouse's phone.
Let's say photos from my phone are ...
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What are the free Image processing tools available to manipulate image regions and entire pixels?
I am working on an image task where I have to manipulate the regions and pixels in images. I need the tool to do 3 major task:
Draw a rectangle box on the image
Pick any pixel colour from the image ...
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Image viewer with "tags" feature?
is there an image viewer available for Ubuntu that allows to assign "tags" (like "sport", "car", "river", "drawing" etc.) to any image in a directory ...
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How can I display an SVG containing other SVGs in an image viewer? (An SVG containing image with href to another image)
I'm unable to get any image viewers to display SVG files that have an image or use with an href attribute, that points to another SVG file.
I can view it in a browser, but I'm looking for an image ...
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How can I easily install kimageformat-plugins_5.90.0 from Jammy in Impish?
How can I easily install kimageformat-plugins_5.90.0 from Jammy in Kubuntu 21.10 which has kimageformat-plugins/impish,now 5.86.0? Kubuntu 21.10 isn't able to display HEIF/HEIC images from iPhone.
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How can I switch back from Google Chrome making itself my default image viewer?
I downloaded and installed the latest Google Chrome browser (BTW not out of choice) and now for some reason it has set itself as my default image viewer. How do I reverse this so that my original ...
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Is there any image viewer that supports animated SVG?
I know we can view animated SVG files using web browsers. I wonder if there is a software that works exclusively as an image viewer with SVG animations support.
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This image makes my screen glitch
When this thread on Reddit is displayed on my screen, my screen glitches and gets flashing green tint. It is more exaggerated when scrolling. Any reason why that might be? I am sure this is not a big ...
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Photo source file missing or Bogus header data for .bmp images
I am generating an image dataset through a simulator and the files are generated in .bmp format. The simulator is running on Windows and I need to then use the images on Ubuntu 20.04. I will need to ...
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How to open an image with a flatpak image viewer application using terminal commands?
I'm using Ubuntu 21.10 and uninstalled the GNOME's default image viewer (eog). I installed the gThumb image viewer flatpak app instead.
What i want to achieve - What terminal commands should i use to ...
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How to install elementary's Pantheon Photos on Ubuntu 20.04?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with GNOME 3.36 with the X11 window system. I want to install the elementary OS's Photos app (Pantheon Photos). I don't need anything else. I am happy with GNOME and I'm ...
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How to convert a directory of jpg files to a pdf with filenames as bookmarks?
I have a directory of jpg files that are scans of my handwritten notes. How do I convert them to a single pdf file that has the filenames as bookmarks?
(I eventually also want to add ocr. As ...
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How do I zoom 200% in feh without having to use fullscreen?
This works:
feh --zoom 200 --full-screen picturius.png
I need the same without full-screen:
feh --zoom 200 picturius.png # this does not work
Have you an idea where I am wrong?
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what happed to image viewer in 21.04? Missing options like delete, rotate and save
There's no menu so to speak anymore. I used the one in 12.04 LTS and it was MUCH better.
The arrow keys are missing at the top, but keypad arrows work.
How do you rotate an image and save?
How do you ...
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Image Viewer Ctrl+C not copying image correctly sometimes
I'm preparing a Google Slides presentation on Ubuntu 20.04, and it involves copying and pasting a lot of png images. Typically I'd like to just open a PNG file with something like Image Viewer, Ctrl+C ...
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what is the command to open encryped file of image, mp3,mp4 in terminal?
i tried using super user command in front of many commands like
feh ,eog , VLC ,display
etc but nothing is shown . please help .!
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Is there any simple 3D viewer application?
I'm frequently working with 3D assets and occasionally I need to quickly preview the asset without opening 3D modelling or game engine software. Most commonly I work with fbx, obj, dae or gltf files.
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How to get an image viewer with JPEG 2000 support?
I've been working with batches of JPEG 2000 (.jp2) files recently. This would be much more convenient if I had an image viewer capable of displaying JPEG 2000 images instead of having to convert them ...
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How can I enable custom SVG fonts for Image Viewer (Eye of Gnome)?
I have some SVG files with custom fonts. I can open them and fonts look nice in Firefox, but the font is not properly displayed in Eye of Gnome (Image Viewer) application.
Why is this so, and how can ...
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Image viewer that can display all ICO sizes in a file
What are the image viewers available in Kubuntu that are able to display all ICO sizes in a file?
In Windows 7 Picture Viewer, I can use PAGE UP / PAGE DOWN to navigate on the "mipmaps" (or ...
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Image management with selection-option on view?
Situation: I have a lot of images, I'd like to view them like in some standard image viewer (fullscreen, for example gpicview) and scroll with <- and -> (prev/next), but I'd like to make some ...
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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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How do I correct the preview image aspect ratio in the desktop display?
See the included images. On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, images shown on the desktop are horizontally stretched. I am using a 4k built-in screen scaled to 200% with no external monitors.
On the desktop:
In the ...
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Use `ffplay` to play images in a folder by file orders
ffplay is a tool to play images inside a folder without saving a video. See command options here
But the problem is the filenames in my folder do not have a pattern, as they are sampled unevenly.
Let'...
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How to run inkview in installed flatpak inkscape
I have installed the last version of Inkscape via flatpak in Xubuntu 16.04. and it runs smoothly. The problem is that I would like to use inkview as standard .svg viewer, but I do not find inkview in ...
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How can i know the resolution of an image and How can i change it?
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 , and need to ensure that the image has a resolution of e.g. 300 pixels-per-inch
I tried to use GIMP but couldn't change or know the exact resolution
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Is it possible to display a line diagram as a transparent clickthrough drawing overlay?
After dozens of pair programming session over zoom I have fallen in love with their annotation feature.
My usecase is, we sketch the function we are implementing on the screen (flow chart, block ...
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Ristretto Image Viewer in XUbuntu does not open .CR2 images. Bug? or not supported? [duplicate]
Context:
Image Viewer (the default viewer in Xubuntu) does not show images with extension .cr2 (the raw image of Canon version 2). If I try, the program opens but no images are displayed. And NO ...
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see images preview in terminal
I search for a program to list pictures graphically in my terminal.
I found this related question but most of answers provide a solution to view the images in terminal which is not my case because I ...
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Images are too dark and saturated in Image Viewer
Colors are coming up too dark and saturated in Image Viewer and in Whatsdesk, but look good in Shotwell, in browsers and other applications.
Here is the same image shown in Image Viewer and Shotwell ...
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Cannot open 90% of recently saved images (webp format)
I very recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop and have been having this issue where I can't open most of the images I have saved. I get an error that says
Unrecognized Image File Format
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Image viewer - How to view images that are in order in the folder as clicking next in the viewer?
Is there a way to view images in the image viewer in order that I see them in the folder. For example if I taken 20 pictures and they are uploaded to a folder in a certain order such as time taken or ...
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Alternative to IrfanView
On Windows, I've been using IrfanView as my image viewer of choice for about 15 years. I use it for things like resizing, cropping, flipping and rotating images; converting between different formats; ...
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How to print multiple copies of an image on a single page - gui
I am looking for a GUI way to select one image file and print it multiple times on a single sheet of paper. This is basic functionality in other OS's, but my best shot for doing this in Ubuntu so far ...
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How to view media files recursively with subfolder in gthumb
If I click some folder or Catalog, I want to see all the photos and videos. So the media from the subfolder should be in my Browser View.
Is this possible?
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Xubuntu 18.04 LTS Ristretto does not open image.ascii.pgm files
The default viewer for any image in Xubuntu is Ristretto Image Viewer.
Using Xubuntu 16.04 LTS, it was possible to read image.ascii.pgm with Ristretto. With 18.04 the program opens but no images are ...
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Image Viewer with multiple selections on 18.04.1 LTS
In previous versions of Ubuntu I could select multiple images and view them in a single Image Viewer window. In 18.04.1 it seems that a separate window/task is created for each selected image. Is ...
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How to find `.desktop` file location for a particular application
EDIT: This is not a duplicate as this question is the reverse of what the other question is asking. Here we know what is the application and we want to find its .desktop file that can be located in ...
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Which image viewer from Ubuntu repositories supports image auto rotate based on EXIF?
I have used Fastone Image Viewer on MS Windows for long time.
One of its great features was image auto-rotation based on EXIF attributes.
So viewer rotates image to show it in correct orientation.
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How to install XnViewMP on Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
Is there a way to install Image Viewer and converter XnViewMP (or Xnview and XnConverter) in Ubuntu 18.04?
Other described ways ( 14.04, 16.04, 16.10 , 18.04 ) seem not to work for me.
From How to ...
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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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How to view EXTREMELY large images?
I have a 1.8GB TIF image that I'm trying to open on my machine with Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I have 8GB of RAM and 2GB of swap space. However, I can't open the image on the stock Gnome Image Viewer (says "...
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Any software opening a png image in a way that trasparent parts show behind windows?
I need a software that could open a png file which has some transparent parts (alpha channel) in a way that transparent parts are really transparent in the software window (not checkered parts as it ...
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How to install XnViewMP in Ubuntu 18.04 and later
Is there a way to install Image viewer and converter XnViewMP (or Xnview and XnConverter) in Ubuntu 18.04 and later?
Other described ways (14.04, 16.04, 16.10) seem not to work for me.
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