swayimg is a lightweight image viewer developed specifically for Wayland desktop environments. It offers a keyboard-oriented approach to viewing pictures, with a minimal interface and support for a broad range of image formats.
The application is particularly suitable for users of tiling Wayland compositors, although its functionality is not limited to a single desktop environment. It provides a special Sway-compatible viewing mode that can present an image as an overlay above another window.
swayimg can browse individual pictures or collections of files from a directory. It is highly configurable, allowing users to adjust navigation, image scaling, presentation and window behaviour.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Native Wayland support – displays images without relying on an X11 viewing application.
- Broad format support – handles JPEG, PNG, GIF, SVG, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, HEIF, TIFF, EXR and other formats.
- Image navigation – browse pictures from the current directory.
- Slideshow mode – automatically display images at configurable intervals.
- Image transformations – rotate and flip displayed pictures.
- Zoom controls – magnify and pan images using keyboard and mouse controls.
- Fullscreen mode – display pictures without surrounding window controls.
- Sway integration – provides an overlay-style presentation mode for compatible compositors.
- Configurable sorting – control the order in which images are displayed.
- Image information – display information about the currently selected picture.
- Animation support – display supported animated image formats.
- Customisable window behaviour – configure initial position, size and image scaling.
Website: github.com/artemsen/swayimg
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Developer: Artem Senichev
License: MIT License
swayimg is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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