Image viewer. Fast, easy to use. Optional video support.
| Main window & panel | Folder view | Settings window |
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Simple UI
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Fast
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Easy to use
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Fully configurable, including themes, shortcuts
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High quality scaling
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Basic image editing: Crop, Rotate and Resize
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Ability to quickly copy / move images to different folders
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Experimental video playback via libmpv
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Folder view mode
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Ability to run shell scripts
| Action | Shortcut |
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| Next image | Right arrow / MouseWheel |
| Previous image | Left arrow / MouseWheel |
| Goto first image | Home |
| Goto last image | End |
| Zoom in | Ctrl+MouseWheel / Crtl+Up |
| Zoom out | Ctrl+MouseWheel / Crtl+Down |
| Zoom (alt. method) | Hold right mouse button & move up / down |
| Fit mode: window | 1 |
| Fit mode: width | 2 |
| Fit mode: 1:1 (no scaling) | 3 |
| Switch fit modes | Space |
| Toggle fullscreen mode | DoubleClick / F / F11 |
| Exit fullscreen mode | Esc |
| Show EXIF panel | I |
| Crop image | X |
| Resize image | R |
| Rotate left | Ctrl+L |
| Rotate Right | Ctrl+R |
| Open containing directory | Ctrl+D |
| Slideshow mode | ~ |
| Shuffle mode | Ctrl+~ |
| Quick copy | C |
| Quick move | M |
| Move to trash | Delete |
| Delete file | Shift+Delete |
| Save | Ctrl+S |
| Save As | Ctrl+Shift+S |
| Folder view | Enter / Backspace |
| Open | Ctrl+O |
| Print / Export PDF | Ctrl+P |
| Settings | P |
| Exit application | Esc / Ctrl+Q / Alt+X / MiddleClick |
... and more.
Note: you can configure every shortcut by going to Settings > Controls
The idea is to have a uncluttered, simple and easy to use UI. You can see UI elements only when you need them.
There is a pull-down panel with thumbnails, as well as folder view. You can also bring up a context menu via right click.
Bring up the panel with C or M shortcut. You will see 9 destination directories, click on the folder icon to change them.
With panel visible, use 1 - 9 keys to copy/move current image to corresponding directory.
When you are done press C or M again to hide the panel.
You can run custom scripts on a current image.
Open Settings > Scripts. Press Add. Here you can choose between a shell command and a shell script.
Example of a command:
convert %file% %file%_.pdf
Example of a shell script file ($1 will be image path):
#!/bin/bash
gimp "$1"
Note: The script file must be an executable. Also, "shebang" (#!/bin/bash) needs to be present.
When you've created your script go to Settings > Controls > Add, then select it and assign a shortcut like for any regular action.
If qimgv appears too small / too big on your display, you can override the scale factor. Example:
QT_SCALE_FACTOR="1.5" qimgv /path/to/image.png
You can put it in qimgv.desktop file to make it permanent. Using values less than 1.0 is not supported.
qimgv should also obey the global scale factor set in KDE's systemsettings.
qimgv supports nicer scaling filters when compiled with opencv support (ON by default, but might vary depending on your linux distribution). Filter options are available in Settings > Scaling. Bicubic or bilinear+sharpen is recommended.
qimgv can open some extra formats via third-party image plugins. All of them are included with windows package.
| Format | Plugin |
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| JPEG-XL | github.com/novomesk/qt-jpegxl-image-plugin |
| AVIF | github.com/novomesk/qt-avif-image-plugin |
| APNG | github.com/Skycoder42/QtApng |
| HEIF / HEIC | github.com/jakar/qt-heif-image-plugin |
| RAW | https://gitlab.com/mardy/qtraw |
Windows builds are portable (everything is contained within install folder). Installer additionally sets up file associations.
NOTE: -video variants include mpv for video support
AUR package:
qimgv-git
sudo apt install qimgv
sudo dnf install qimgv
zypper install qimgv
emerge qimgv
xbps-install -S qimgv
apk add qimgv
pkg install qimgv
This list may be incomplete.
See Compiling qimgv from source on the wiki
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