Xviewer is an image viewer developed by the Linux Mint project. It provides a straightforward graphical interface for opening photographs and other image files, with an emphasis on simplicity, responsiveness and standards compliance.
The application uses the gdk-pixbuf library for image loading and supports a wide variety of image formats. It can display individual images or browse collections of pictures, making it useful for quickly examining photographs stored in a directory.
Xviewer is designed to handle large images efficiently. Its zooming and scrolling implementation maintains constant memory usage, helping users navigate high-resolution photographs without excessive resource consumption.
The application is included in Linux Mint and supports additional functionality through a separate collection of plugins.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Displays a wide range of image formats supported by the gdk-pixbuf library.
- Handles large images with constant memory usage during zooming and scrolling.
- Image gallery for browsing multiple pictures in a collection.
- Full-screen viewing and slideshow mode for displaying photographs without interface distractions.
- Automatic image orientation using camera metadata.
- Zoom controls for examining image details or fitting pictures to the available viewing area.
- Option to set the selected image as the desktop wallpaper.
- Extensible plugin architecture with plugins managed through the application’s preferences.
- Optional plugins for displaying EXIF information, viewing photograph locations on a map and exporting images to another directory.
- Additional plugin functionality includes slideshow shuffling and a Python console.
- Traditional GTK interface with configurable toolbars, status information and image gallery display.
Website: github.com/linuxmint/xviewer
Support:
Developer: Linux Mint Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Xviewer is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Graphical Image Viewers | |
|---|---|
| feh | Fast and light Imlib2-based image viewer |
| Regards | Modern image viewer with OpenGL/OpenCL support |
| Loupe | Written with GTK 4, Libadwaita and Rust |
| PhotoQT | Good looking, highly configurable, yet easy to use and fast |
| gThumb | Advanced image viewer and browser |
| Geeqie | Lightweight Gtk+ based image viewer |
| qimgv | Qt5 image viewer with video support |
| Vooki | Lightweight viewer with fast image preview |
| Gwenview | Simple image viewer for KDE |
| QuickViewer | Graphic image viewer for comfortable browsing |
| nomacs | Handles most image formats including RAW images |
| qView | Image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind |
| Oculante | Hardware-accelerated image viewer |
| GPicView | Simple and fast image viewer |
| Tacent View | Image and texture viewer |
| FIM | Viewer which is highly customizable and scriptable |
| Eye of Gnome | Fast and functional image viewer |
| vipsdisp | Tiny GTK+ image viewer |
| Pineapple Pictures | Lightweight image viewer with Stay-on-Top window |
| Viewnior | Designed with usability in mind |
| sxiv | Simple X Image Viewer |
| PreviewQt | Preview all kinds of files |
| pqiv | Powerful image viewer with minimal UI |
| Ristretto | View and scroll through images |
| QIV | Quick Image Viewer |
| Fotema | Simple photo gallery software |
| CoreImage | Lightweight image viewer; part of the C suite |
| swayimg | Image viewer for Wayland |
| ParaPara | Lightweight and high-speed operation |
| Eye of MATE | Simple graphics viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment |
| LXImage-Qt | LXQt image viewer and screenshot tool |
| Mirage | Fast and simple GTK+ image viewer |
| PixelViewer | .NET based cross-platform image viewe |
| Pix | Image viewer and browser utility which is based on gThumb |
| ImageFan Reloaded | Tab-based image viewer |
| BeeRef | Simple reference image viewer |
| Ephoto | Image viewer based on the EFL |
| SphereView | 360° equirectangular photospheres and panoramas |
| Imagot | Basic graphical image viewer |
| flxvwr | Image viewer written in Go using the Fyne toolkit |
| Blackbody | Thermogram viewer. It allows viewing FLIR and TIFF images |
| Lightning Image Viewer | Fast and lightweight desktop image viewer |
| roseate | Simple image viewer |
| ImageGlass | Versatile image viewer |
| nsxiv | Fork of sxiv |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 LinuxLinks helps you discover the best free and open source software for Linux. Explore our extensive collection of recommended applications, including alternatives to popular proprietary software.We also publish software reviews, Linux tutorials, hardware reviews, free programming books and articles covering the wider open source community. Browse our Linux resources to discover more. Know a useful free and open source Linux application we haven't covered? Suggest a program for inclusion. Has your software been featured on LinuxLinks? Display one of our Featured on LinuxLinks badges on your website or GitHub README. |
Please read our Comment Policy before commenting.