QIV – Quick Image Viewer

Quick Image Viewer (QIV) is a very small and pretty fast open source gdk/imlib image viewer.

QIV is faster than traditional image viewers such as xv or xli.

The software is released under an open source license.

Key Features

• Moving and zooming image in fullscreen mode.
• Setting image as x11 background (centered,tiled,stretched..) with user settable background color.
• Fullscreen viewing with a great statusbar.
• External “qiv-command” program support.
• Screensaver mode.
• Brightness/contrast/gamma correction.
• Real transparency.
• Maxpect (zoom to screen size while preserving aspect ratio).
• Scale_down (scale down to big images to fit screen size).
• Slideshow (with random order if you want).
• Filename filer.
• Flip horizontal/vertical, rotate left/right.
• Delete function (move to .qiv-trash/).
• Jump to image number x, jump forward/backward x images.
• exif autorotation.
• Browse mode when launching from file manager.
• Keyboard shortcuts.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Solaris, SunOS, FreeBSD, and HP-UX.

Website: spiegl.de/qiv
Support: Man Page
Developer: Andy Spiegl, Adam Kopacz, Thomas Wiegner and many more
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

QIV is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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