Questions tagged [digikam]

Digikam is a photo viewer, organiser and editor.

Digikam is a powerful photo management application that is part of the KDE Software Compilation.

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How to organize/sort images by EXIF image data

I have recovered images from a lost partition and I need to sort them or put them into a folder by the creation date in the EXIF data of each image. I have installed digiKam and also shotwell but have not found the way to do this on any of the…
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How to make digiKam remember Google's Two-factor Authentication password?

I use digiKam on Kubuntu 12.10 to organise my photos and really like being able to upload to Picasaweb using kipiplugins. Unfortunately after having set up Google two-factor authentication I now need to create an application specific password each…
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Menubar in digiKam

I do not see menu bar after fresh install of digiKam (3.1.0). It was never displayed. I found that maybe edit of ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc would help, but there is no MenuBar=Disabled anywhere. Without menu the application is practically…
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Program[Digikam] chooses wrong qt lib and crashes

I run Ubuntu 14.04 64bit. Digikam used to work but recently stopped working. I was wondering if someone could help me work a way to resolve this issue. I've had a response from the Digikam mailing list to say that this is not really a Digikam issue…
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Import images from camera in KDE with particular directory structure

I have been using f-spot for a few years to manage my photo archive, which is about 50K images at the moment. With the development of f-spot slowing down in the recent years and me switching to KDE, I'm looking at using DigiKam, which seems to be…
Sergey
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Can I Install Digikam without installing most of KDE?

I'd like to transition from F-Spot to Digikam because I fully believe it to be a better application for my needs, as somebody who takes and post-processes a lot of photos. The problem is... Well, I think the apt-get output says it better than I…
Oli
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digikam: organize imported images by date

I am using digikam to import and organize pictures on my hard disks. It seems that digikam is not reading the metadata to catalogue the pictures by date. How can I force digikam to read the metadata and order images by date?
Kabira K
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Missing Digikam geotagging on Kubuntu 15.10

After Kubuntu from 15.04 to 15.10 I miss the function to geotag my photos with digikam. The complete menu entry is missing. Is this an known bug? How can I solve it?
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Can I tag photos in digikam using only the keyboard?

Ideally I want to hit a key combo and start typing the name of a tag while a dialog box shows a list of matching tags I can select from (a bit like the tag box when you ask a question on this site :). Using a mouse makes it quite a bit slower when…
Hamish Downer
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Show photo/video slideshow with photo captions

I'm trying to find a straightforward way to create a date-ordered slideshow from a directory that contains a mix of photos and videos (e.g. the output of a smartphone camera from a holiday). Ideally the slideshow will include the photo metadata…
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From DigiKam to WhatsApp?

I want to send an image which I see in DigiKam via WhatsApp. What is the easiest way to do this?
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Digikam cannot play mp4 video in slideshow

With Kubuntu 15.04 and Digikam 4.13.0, Libkipi 2.2.0, videos can be viewed as preview (click in thumbnail), but not in a slideshow. During the slideshow, only a black screen is shown instead of the video. But in e.g. vlc, mp4 videos in slideshow is…
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Upgraded and digikam ignores most folders

I have a new laptop and I've copied across my photo collection and digikam set up. But when I open up digikam, it shows me very few of my albums. I faithfully copied across my settings,…
Hamish Downer
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digikam - error while loading shared libraries: libcudart.so.8.0

When I launch digikam I get an error about a cuda missing library (this is happening since I removed cuda more or less cleanly to solve something else): hippo@hippo-camp:~$ digikam
digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libcudart.so.8.0:…
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ubuntu 18.04 issues with digikam

I have just upgraded to 18.04 and am trying to install upgrades and or new programd via the terminal. I get the following message digikam-private-libs : Depends: libkf5sane5 (>= 4.3.4) but it is not going to be installed …
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