nomacs – light weight image viewer

2014-11-10 1 min read Fedora

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nomacs is a very light weight viewer for images with some fetures that you find useful (rotate image,
crop and see in 1:1. Not too much features but definately very light weight and good for daily use.

Description : nomacs is image viewer based on Qt4 library.
nomacs is small, fast and able to handle the most common image formats.
Additionally it is possible to synchronize multiple viewers
running on the same computer or via LAN is possible.
It allows to compare images and spot the differences
e.g. schemes of architects to show the progress).

sxiv – image viewer

2013-12-06 1 min read Fedora Photo

sxiv is a nice alternative to feh. It is very light weight and quite useful. Here is the description:

Description :
sxiv is an alternative to feh and qiv. Its only dependency besides xlib
is imlib2. The primary goal for writing sxiv is to create an image viewer,
which only has the most basic features required for fast image viewing (the
ones I want). It works nicely with tiling window managers and its code base
should be kept small and clean to make it easy for you to dig into it and
customize it for your needs.

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viewnior – another image viewer on Linux (with support for GIF)

2010-09-25 1 min read Fedora Linux Photo

Here is another Linux viewer (Image) that is worth a mention. URL : <a href="http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior">http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior

Description :

Viewnior is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer program. Created to be simple, fast and elegant.  It&#8217;s minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. Among  its features are:

  • Fullscreen & Slideshow
  • Rotate, flip, save, delete images
  • Animation support
  • Browse only selected images
  • Navigation window
  • Simple interface
  • Configurable <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">mouse actions

The best part about the viewer is the ability to display gif inherently. Worth a look if you are using a lot of gif images.

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F-Spot photo viewer – another tool with option to view the exif data.

2010-09-22 1 min read Photo

Here is another tool worth looking at for <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">Image Viewer. Its called F-spot and the description for the same is as below :

F-Spot is an application designed to provide personal photo management to the GNOME desktop. Features include import, export, printing and advanced sorting and tagging of digital images.

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