gqview(1)

NAME
GQview - GTK based multiformat image viewer

SYNOPSIS
gqview [options] [path]

DESCRIPTION
GQview is an interactive GTK based image viewer that supports multiple image formats, zooming, panning, thumbnails and sorting images into collections.

OPTIONS

+t,--with-tools
    Force the toolbox to be shown.

-t,--without-tools
    Force the toolbox to be hidden.

-f,--fullscreen
    Start in full screen mode.

-s,--slideshow
    Start in slideshow mode.

-l,--list
    Open collection window for command line files.

--debug
    Turn on debugging output.

-v,--version
    Print version.

-h,--help
    Print command line options.

USAGE
Key naming is similar to that of emacs(1): C-key indicates that control should be held, and key should be pressed; S-key indicates that shift should be held and key should be pressed; these two can be combined, also, into C-S-key.

left-mouse-click
    (on image) next image

middle-mouse-click
    (on image) previous image

right-mouse
    context menu

middle-mouse-drag
    drag and drop operations

mouse-wheel
    (on image) Changes to the next or previous image, or if option is enabled, scrolls the image vertically.

mouse-wheel+Shift-key
    (on image) Inverts the mouse wheel behavior between scrolling image or changing image.

mouse-wheel+Control-key
    (on image) Zooms the image in and out.

  GENERAL KEYS

PageDown
    next image

PageUp
    previous image

Home
    first image in list

End last image in list

Tab tab completion in path entry window

Escape
    cancel completion in path entry window or stop generating thumbnails

  IMAGE KEYS
Keys that are valid when the image part of the window is focused.

Arrows
    pan image

Shift+Arrows
    pan image faster

Space,N
    next image

Backspace,B
    previous image

  FILE RELATED KEYS

C   new empty collection

O   open collection

D   open the Find Duplicates window

C-F new folder

C-C copy file

C-M move file

C-R rename file

C-D,Delete
    delete file

C-N new window

C-W close window

C-Q quit

  EDIT MENU RELATED KEYS

C-1,2..9,0
    run external editor

C-A select all files

C-S-A
    unselect all files

C-O go to the Configuration window

C-P display image properties

]   rotate image clockwise

[   rotate image counterclockwise

S-R rotate image 180 degrees

S-M mirror image (horizontal)

S-F flip image (vertical)

  VIEW MENU RELATED KEYS

+,= zoom in

-   zoom out

Z,KeyPad-/
    zoom to original size

X,KeyPad-*
    zoom to fit window

1,2,3,4
    zoom in to X scale factor

9,8,7
    zoom to -2, -3, -4, respectively

T   toggle thumbnail display

C-L display files in list format

C-I display files in icon format

C-T toggle tree view for directories

R   refresh file list

L   toggle floating of file selection area

H   toggle hiding of file selection area

F,V toggle full-screen mode

S   toggle slide-show mode

P   toggle pause of slideshow

C-E toggle display of exif sidebar

C-S toggle display of sort manager

  COLLECTION WINDOW KEYS

Arrows
    move selection

Shift+Arrows
    select multiple images

Control+Arrows
    move selector without changing selection

Space
    select the image under the selector

Control+Space
    toggle selection of the image under the selector

Home
    move selector to the top image

End move selector to bottom image
    Adding Shift or Control to Home and End has a similar effect as adding them to the arrows.

C-A select all images

C-S-A
    unselect all images

Delete
    remove image form collection (does not delete the file)

C-L add images to collection form main file list

N   sort collection by name

D   sort collection by date

B   sort collection by file size

P   sort collection by pathname

I   sort collection by name numerically (*)

Enter
    view image under selector in the main image window

V   view image under selector in new window

C-1,2..9,0
    open selected image(s) in external editor

S   save collection

C-S save collection as

A   append current collection to existing collection

C-C copy selected files

C-M move selected files

C-R rename selected files

C-D delete selected files

C-W close window

  DUPLICATES WINDOW KEYS

C-A select all images

C-S-A
    unselect all images

1   select group 1 images

2   select group 2 images

C-L add images from main window file list

C   add selected images to new collection

Delete
    remove selected images from list

C-Delete
    clear window

Enter
    view image with focus in main window

V   view image with focus in new window

C-1,2..9,0
    open selected image(s) in editor

C-P display properties window for selected images

C-C copy selected files

C-M move selected files

C-R rename selected files

C-D delete selected files

C-W close window

LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by John Ellis. Use this software at your own risk! This software released under the GNU General Public License. Please read the COPYING file for more information.

BUGS
Please send bug reports and feedback to gqview@users.sourceforge.net or the author, below.

AUTHOR
John Ellis <johne@verizon.net>
Manpage originally prepared by Nick Rusnov <nick@grawk.net>