Quick Image Viewer
Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and fast GDK/Imlib image viewer designed to replace the classic image viewers like xv or xloadimage. It features setting an image as an X11 background with a user-definable background color, fullscreen viewing, a screensaver mode, brightness/contrast/gamma correction, real transparency, zoom, slideshow, support for external programs, and more. It runs on Linux (libc5/glibc), Solaris (SunOS), FreeBSD, and HP-UX.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Presentation Viewers |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 15 Oct 2012 17:20
Release Notes: A note about obsoleted GTK+ 1 was included along with more examples in qiv-command, center image correction, and many more fixes.
- 04 Mar 2010 21:49
Release Notes: Many bugfixes, an upgrade to recent GTK, and some new features.
- 25 Apr 2007 17:47
Release Notes: This release has some bugfixes and new options.
- 22 May 2004 19:56
Release Notes: Better remote-display support was implemented. Xinerama multi-head for XFree86 4.0 and higher is now supported. Moving pictures in fullscreen mode is now faster. qiv-command-stdout support was added, so "metacam" (EXIF-Header) or other tools can now be used within qiv, and the output will be shown in a box in the picture like the help screen.
- 13 Dec 2003 21:23
Release Notes: The "A" key can be used to copy images. The -F option was added for reading image names from a text file. The F11 and F12 keys increase and decrease (respectively) the slideshow delay. The ability to drag the image with the mouse in fullscreen mode was added. The -T option was added to watch a file for changes. Tons of small bugfixes and enhancements were made.
Recent comments
new maintainer is Andy Spiegl
new homepage is http://spiegl.de/qiv/
good for working with photographs
It's for the keyboard/command-line oriented user.
Efficient for viewing photos downloaded from
camera and filtering the good from the bad.
qiv -tf *.jpg
will let you see all of large images, and give
you a tiny annotation in the corner with image
name and size. The d key trashes the image and
there are user definable keys. Much more
convenient for me than ee or xv, for instance.
Just what the doctor ordered
.. exactly what i was looking for. Great!
