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Geeqie is a
free software Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed open-source license, under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, distribut ...
image viewer An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth ...
and image organiser program for
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operating systems, which includes
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-based systems and Apple's
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. It was first released in March 2010, having been created as a
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of GQview, which appeared to have ceased development. It uses the
GTK GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free software cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both Free software, free and ...
toolkit. In September 2015, development was moved from SourceForge to GitHub.


Features

* Viewing
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and
vector Vector most often refers to: * Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction * Disease vector, an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism Vector may also refer to: Mathematics a ...
images, in the following formats: : 3FR
ANI Ani (; ; ) is a ruined medieval Armenian city now situated in Turkey's province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia. Between 961 and 1045, it was the capital of the Bagratid Armenian kingdom that covered much of present-day Armen ...
ARW
AVIF AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) is an open, royalty-free image file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF container format. It competes with HEIC, which uses the same container format built up ...
BMP CR2 CR3 CRW
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DDS DjVu DNG ERF
FITS Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is an open standard defining a digital file format used for storage, transmission and processing of data: formatted as multi-dimensional arrays (for example a 2D image), or tables. FITS is the most commonl ...
GIF The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , ) is a Raster graphics, bitmap Image file formats, image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released ...
HEIC HEIF
ICO is a 2001 action-adventure game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game based on a "boy meets girl" concept. Originally ...
JP2/JPC/JPX/J2K/JPF JPE/JPEG/JPG JPS JPEGXL KDC MEF MOS MPO MRW NEF NPY
ORF ORF or Orf may refer to: * Norfolk International Airport, IATA airport code ORF * Observer Research Foundation, an Indian research institute * One Race Films, a film production company founded by Vin Diesel * Open reading frame, a portion of the g ...
(including OM-1) PBM/PGM/PNM/PPM PEF
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PSD QIF/QTIF (
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Image Format) SCR (ZX Spectrum) RAF RAW RW2 SR2 SRF SVG/SVGZ TGA/TARGA TIF/TIFF
WEBP WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the WebP ...
XBM In computer graphics, the X Window System used X BitMap (XBM), a plain text binary image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI. The XBM format is superseded by XPM, which first appeared for X11 in 1989. Format XBM files ...
XPM * Images can be displayed singly in normal or fullscreen mode; static or
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mode; in sets of two or four per page for comparison; or as
thumbnail Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or videos, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. In the age of digital images, visual search engines and image-o ...
s of various sizes. Animated images are supported. * All available
metadata Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive ...
and
Exif Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other system ...
/
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/ XMP data can be displayed, as well as colour
histogram A histogram is a visual representation of the frequency distribution, distribution of quantitative data. To construct a histogram, the first step is to Data binning, "bin" (or "bucket") the range of values— divide the entire range of values in ...
s and assigned tags,
keyword Keyword may refer to: Computing * Index term, a term used as a keyword to documents in an information system such as a catalog or a search engine * Keyword (Internet search), a word or phrase typically used by bloggers or online content creator to ...
s and comments * Panels can be docked or floating * Tags, both predefined and custom, can be assigned to images, and stored either as image metadata (where the file format allows),
sidecar file Sidecar files, also known as buddy files or connected files, are computer files that store data (often metadata) which is not supported by the format of a source file. There may be one or more sidecar files for each source file. There may also b ...
s, or in directory metadata files. Keywords and comments can also be assigned. * Basic editing in the form of lossless 90/180-degree rotation and flipping is supported; external programs such as
GIMP Gimp or GIMP may refer to: Clothing * Bondage suit, also called a gimp suit, a type of suit used in BDSM * Bondage mask, also called a gimp mask, often worn in conjunction with a gimp suit Embroidery and crafts * Gimp (thread), an ornamental tr ...
,
Inkscape Inkscape is a vector graphics editor. It is used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagrams, and flowcharts. It uses vector graphics to allow for sharp printouts and renderings at ...
, and custom
script Script may refer to: Writing systems * Script, a distinctive writing system, based on a repertoire of specific elements or symbols, or that repertoire * Script (styles of handwriting) ** Script typeface, a typeface with characteristics of handw ...
s using
ImageMagick ImageMagick, invoked from the command line as magick, is a free and open-source cross-platform software suite for displaying, creating, converting, modifying, and editing raster images. ImageMagick was created by John Cristy in 1987, and it ...
can be linked to allow further processing. * Advanced searching is available using criteria such as
filename A filename or file name is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file in a file system. Different file systems impose different restrictions on filename lengths. A filename may (depending on the file system) include: * name – base ...
, file size, age, image dimensions, similarity to a specified image, or by keywords or comments. If images have GPS coordinates embedded, you may also search for images within a radius of a geographical point. * Geeqie supports applying the
colour profile In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium (ICC). Profiles describe the color attributes of a ...
embedded in an image along with the system monitor profile (or a user-specified monitor profile) * Geeqie sessions can be remotely controlled from external software, so it can be used as an image-viewer component of a bigger application. * Geeqie includes a 'find duplicates' tool which can compare images using a variety of criteria (
filename A filename or file name is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file in a file system. Different file systems impose different restrictions on filename lengths. A filename may (depending on the file system) include: * name – base ...
, file size, visual similarity, etc.), either within a single folder or between two folders. * Images may be given a rating value (also known as a "star rating"). * Maps from http://www.openstreetmap.org may be displayed in a side panel. If an image has GPS coordinates embedded, its position will be displayed on the map - if Image Direction is encoded, that will be displayed also. If an image does not have embedded GPS coordinates, it may be dragged-and-dropped onto the map to encode its position. * A more extensive list of features may be foun
here


Reception

Geeqie has been generally well received in the technical press. A 2012 review in ''
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'' said it is "highly recommended, if not best in class". A 2011 ''Linux Insider'' review awarded it 5 out of 5 stars. A 2010 ''
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'' review called Geeqie an "indispensable tool", "lightning fast". A 2012 ''Libre Graphics World'' review noted that Geeqie seems to be "the only up-to-date JPS and MPO viewer on Linux right now". A negative review in 2010 from ''
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'' said it "doesn't offer much more than system default apps".


GQview

GQview is the predecessor to Geeqie. It had been developed from 1998 to 2006 by John Ellis, the last release being in December 2006. Efforts to contact Ellis since then proved unsuccessful, so a group of interested developers forked the GQview code, adopted the name Geeqie, and set about enhancing it. In some Linux distributions (such as
Debian Debian () is a free and open-source software, free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock in August 1993. Debian is one of the oldest operating systems based on the Linux kerne ...
and its derivatives), a ''gqview'' package was provided as a shortcut to Geeqie for easier upgrade.


See also

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Comparison of image viewers This article presents a comparison of image viewers and image organizers which can be used for image viewing. Functionality overview and licensing Supported file formats Commonly used vendor-independent formats Camera raw formats Support ...


References


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* {{Image viewers and organizers Free image organizers Free image viewers Free photo software Free software programmed in C Graphics software that uses GTK Linux image viewers