Home

Awesome

Geeqie Readme

GitHub Code Status:
Build Status GitHub Downloads

Package Status:
Packaging status latest packaged version(s)

Geeqie icon Geeqie - an image viewer

This is Geeqie, a successor of GQview.

Geeqie is a free open software image viewer and organiser program for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems

It can be used as a simple database-free image viewer but it also has extensive capabilities.

Please send any questions, problems or suggestions to the mailing list or open an issue on Geeqie at GitHub.

(NB Unless you first subscribe to the mailing list, you will not receive automated responses)

Subscribe to the mailing list here.

The project website is https://www.geeqie.org/ and you will find the latest sources in the Geeqie repository.

Contents

Features

Geeqie is a graphics file viewer. Basic features:

Downloading

Geeqie is available:

AppImages

The Continuous Build release version has AppImages that are automatically generated each time the source code is updated. There are two versions - the full version is about 120MB and the minimal version is about 10MB and will therefore load much faster.

The minimal version can display jpegs, pngs and some other formats, but does not have the range of the full version.

This script file will download to $HOME/bin the latest Continuous Build AppImages for you:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/master/scripts/geeqie-download-appimage.sh
chmod +x geeqie-download-appimage.sh

The script can download either the full size or the minimal version of the AppIamge, and sets a symbolic link to the executable file. The --help option lists all options.

The full version takes a noticeable time to load, and runs slightly slower than a normal packaged release. The above script has the option --extract which extracts the contents of either AppImage to a sub-directory under $HOME/bin. With this option the loading and run time is the same as for a packaged release.

There are also options to install desktop icons, menu items, and to revert to earlier downloaded versions.

AppImages have a "portable mode" which is described here.

Note:

Command line auto-completion does not work with AppImages. If you are using the AppImage --extract option, this is a work-around.

Assuming you have extracted the AppImage to $HOME/bin/Geeqie-latest-x86_64-AppImage/, create a symbolic link as follows:

mkdir --parents $HOME/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/
ln --symbolic $HOME/bin/Geeqie-latest-x86_64-AppImage/squashfs-root/usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/geeqie $HOME/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/geeqie

Installation scripts

Geeqie is stable and you may compile the latest version from sources.

There are two scripts which will download and compile the sources for you.

The first script will install Geeqie to a defined location, and will run under any system. However, it is left to you to make sure dependencies are fulfilled. To get the script, from the command line type:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixlsus/Scripts/master/build-geeqie
chmod +x build-geeqie

The second script will run only on Debian-based system, but will fulfil all dependencies and also give you the opportunity to include additional pixbuf loaders and other useful programs. To get the script, from the command line type:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/master/geeqie-install-debian.sh
chmod +x geeqie-install-debian.sh

If you wish to compile the sources yourself you may download the latest version (if you have installed git) from here:

git clone http://git.geeqie.org/git/geeqie.git

Compiling and Installing

meson setup build
ninja -C build install

List compile options:

meson configure build

Apply options e.g.:

sudo ninja -C build uninstall
meson configure build -Dpdf=enabled -Dwebp=disabled
ninja -C build install

Re-display configuration data:

ninja -C build reconfigure

Meaning of options:
auto If the library is not found, continue the installation
enabled If the library is not found, stop the installation
disabled Do not look for the library

Uninstall:

sudo ninja -C build uninstall

Install new version:

sudo ninja -C build uninstall
git pull
ninja -C build install

Note

It is recommended to always use git clone git://git.geeqie.org/geeqie.git to download Geeqie. After installing Geeqie you may delete the folder you have cloned Geeqie into.

However if you leave the folder intact, whenever new features or patches are available, execute:

sudo ninja -C build uninstall; git pull; ninja -C build install

Only the changed sources are downloaded, which makes this a quick operation.

Your configuration file, history file and desktop files are not affected by this process.

Notes and changes for the latest release

See the NEWS file in the installation folder, or Geeqie News at GitHub

And either the ChangeLog file or Geeqie ChangeLog

Required libraries

Required libraries for a Debian installation may be listed by:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/master/geeqie-install-debian.sh
chmod +x geeqie-install-debian.sh
./geeqie-install-debian.sh --list

Code hackers

If you plan on making any major changes to the code that will be offered for inclusion to the main source, please contact us first - so that we can avoid duplication of effort.

Known bugs

See the Geeqie Bug Tracker at https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues

Windows

Geeqie can be run on Windows 11 (and possibly Windows 10) via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2).

If the Ubuntu distribution is loaded by WSL, Geeqie can be run as an Ubuntu package or as an extracted AppImage. Geeqie can also be compiled from sources.

Note that some icons are not displayed correctly, and Help and Print do not work. However the Help manual is available on-line