gThumb is an advanced image viewer and browser. It has many useful features, such as filesystem browsing, slide show, image catalogs, web album creation, camera import, image CD burning, batch file operations and quick image editing features like transformation and color manipulation.
Questions tagged [gthumb]
36 questions
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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 (look the same) - on the right is gimp. Left one…
user60235
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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...
mreq
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gThumb freezes on start
I am not sure if some .lock file remained somewhere or it happened after yesterday's system update, but I cannot start gThumb any more.
When I open it it freezes, turns grey and I have to kill it.
Tried uninstalling it (remove and purge), deleting…
ubuntico
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How to downgrade gthumb in 16.04?
I greatly dislike the user interface changes between the version of gthumb in 16.04 and the version that was in 14.04. But the deal breaker is this "loading original image" dialog box that pops up whenever you try to edit anything, takes forever,…
Organic Marble
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How to save as GIF in Gthumb
I edited a GIF image (no animations) with gthumb and on trying to save I encountered the error:
Could not save the file
Could not find a suitable module to save the image as "image/gif"
I jumped over to the preferences only to find save as GIF…
Parto
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How to use the keyboard in gthumb image viewer?
I cannot use arrows nor shift-space, nor any key or key combination to go to previous image in gthumb 2.13.1 (Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.10). There should be shortcut-keys even to flip horizontally and vertically. And I cannot have a preview box (like…
Robert
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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?
politus
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How can I launch gThumb (version > 3.4.3) with light background colors in menus and browser like before?
In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and before, the gThumb application (version 3.4.3) has a light background in its menus, its browser and its dialogues – like white or light grey. So the gThumb application fits nicely with my light Ubuntu desktop and the other…
Fidelis
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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 an old thread about AVIF format support in…
raj
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gThumb Browser and Viewer should have black background, how to do?
I really like gThumb but I hate that gThumb is using my standard ambiance theme when viewing images. The result is that I have a lightgrey background for images but in my opinion images look the best with a black background.
Here is the area I want…
therealmarv
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Automatically generate raw thumbnails only with gThumb
I would like to generate camera raw file thumbnails (Nikon .NEF) in Nautilus with gThumb, without opening the app, and when no additional thumbnailer is installed. Some script or a Terminal command, I guess.
When a folder with pictures is opened in…
cristian mos
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How do I change the speed of the slideshow in gThumb?
How do I change the speed of the slideshow in gThumb? Is there a properties menu I am missing?
Don Lopez
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Is it possible to use wildcards with Geeqie?
For a long time I have been using Gthumb as my image viewer of choice, since it's fast and allows me to use wildcards.
Since the last update though (version 3.4.3) the display of low resolution images is awful. I set the 'zoom level' to 'High', but…
hoodjiah
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Webkit2.h, what package does it reside in?
I'm trying to compile gThumb from source and enable all extensions, and I cannot get the webkit dependency resolved. I've installed all of the webkit development libraries I can seem to find to no avail.
Specifically, it's looking for…
Chad
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How can I quickly look through the images and videos within a folder
Is there an app that can allow me to preview photos and videos within a single folder? It does not necessarily have to be a "preview" it could simply open an app but I want to be able to scroll through each one quickly using the left or right…
ExZerminator
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