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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

Image viewer applications display image files and may offer image editing options.

Every Ubuntu flavor has a default image viewer with basic features:

  • Eye of Gnome on GNOME desktop (Ubuntu) - use tag
  • LXImage on LXQt (Lubuntu) - no tag yet
  • Ristretto on Xfce4 (Xubuntu) - use tag
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How do I make my terminal display graphical pictures?

This is a quick mockup I copy and pasted together. I imagine this being super cool and useful. Does something like this exist already?
Dennkster
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Is there a way to open DICOM files?

I have done an RMI scan, and I wonder if it's possible to open DICOM files, to see it. Ubuntu recommended I install ImageJ, but that didn't decode it or whatever. A friend of mine opened it with Photoshop and seems like it worked, but I need a…
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What fast image viewers are available for Ubuntu?

What is the fastest / most responsive image viewer? I'm looking for a program that is responsive and opens large .jpgs fast - progressively and/or by cleverly loading only parts it will render. A 6 MB picture has a resolution of 4000x3000, while my…
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How do I crop from the default image viewer?

I recall an Edit Image button in 11.04 that would bring up a second window with a Crop button easily visible. But now, in 11.10, I see no such button. In fact, I can't find a way to crop at all from the default image viewer. How can I crop an image…
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Which image-viewers in Linux support the `webp` image format?

Is there any way to see WebP photo from Thunar with Xfce DE? There was a similar question, but it was about nautilus. Then to get WebP thumbnails tumbler (the Xfce thumbnailing service) must support, and there are nothing. Then to open pictures, the…
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Ubuntu replacement for IrfanView

On Windows I really liked IrfanView as a basic image editor/manager. Some of the main features I liked were great shortcut keys good batch conversion options ability to work with many image file formats easy viewing of images in a folder ability to…
Jeromy Anglim
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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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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? Opening the file in GIMP shows crisp pixels as…
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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 non standard places also. While the other question…
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Which image viewer is able to show coordinates?

I need an image viewer to help me see the XY coordinates inside an image (mouse cursor position relative to top left corner of the image). Could somebody please recommend one?
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Alternative image viewers

I dont really like Eye of Gnome (EOG). What other image viewers are available for Ubuntu? I am using gwenview but it takes a long time to load.
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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 "Dimensions of TIFF image too large"), or Shotwell…
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Image viewer that shows transparent as white or different color, not as checkered

I have made a number of graphical mockups in SVG, and then exported them to PNG. They all have transparent background, because that makes sense in my case. However, it isn't easy to browse through the PNG-files. Both Gwenview and Gnome Image Viewer…
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Image viewer without antialiasing

I need an image viewer with the following features: Infinite zoom in and zoom out. No antialiasing. I want to see pixels as is and as close as I want to. Mouse control. (optional) Show pixel coordinates and RGBa value. I tried shotwell (the…
Ivan Smirnov
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How to view extra large images?

I just downloaded this file and I cannot open it with the default Image Viewer because it crashes without opening the image; is there any other way to open very large images? I have 6GB of ram so this 200MB+ image should be opened without issues.
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