Geeqie is a
free softwareimage viewer and
image organiser program for
Unix-like operating systems, which includes
Linux-based systems and Apple's
OS X. It was first released in March 2010, having been created as a
fork of GQview, which appeared to have ceased development. It uses the
GTK toolkit. In September 2015, development was moved from SourceForge to GitHub.[1]
Features
Viewing
raster and
vector images, in the following formats:
Images can be displayed singly in normal or fullscreen mode; static or
slideshow mode; in sets of two or four per page for comparison; or as
thumbnails of various sizes. Animated images are supported.
Tags, both predefined and custom, can be assigned to images, and stored either as image metadata (where the file format allows),
sidecar files, or in directory metadata files. Keywords and comments can also be assigned.
Basic editing in the form of lossless 90/180-degree rotation and flipping is supported; external programs such as
GIMP,
Inkscape, and custom
scripts using
ImageMagick can be linked to allow further processing.
Advanced searching is available using criteria such as
filename, file size, age, image dimensions, similarity to a specified image, or by keywords or comments. If images have GPS coordinates embedded, you may also search for images within a radius of a geographical point.
Geeqie supports applying the
colour profile embedded in an image along with the system monitor profile (or a user-specified monitor profile)
Geeqie sessions can be remotely controlled from external software, so it can be used as an image-viewer component of a bigger application.
Geeqie includes a 'find duplicates' tool which can compare images using a variety of criteria (
filename, file size, visual similarity, etc.), either within a single folder or between two folders.
Images may be given a rating value (also known as a "star rating").
Maps from
http://www.openstreetmap.org may be displayed in a side panel. If an image has GPS coordinates embedded, its position will be displayed on the map - if Image Direction is encoded, that will be displayed also. If an image does not have embedded GPS coordinates, it may be dragged-and-dropped onto the map to encode its position.
A more extensive list of features may be found
here.
Reception
Geeqie has been generally well received in the technical press. A 2012 review in Free Software Magazine said it is "highly recommended, if not best in class".[2] A 2011 Linux Insider review awarded it 5 out of 5 stars.[3] A 2010 Linux Magazine review called Geeqie an "indispensable tool", "lightning fast".[4] A 2012 Libre Graphics World review noted that Geeqie seems to be "the only up-to-date
JPS and
MPO viewer on Linux right now".[5] A negative review in 2010 from Tom's Hardware said it "doesn't offer much more than system default apps".[6]
GQview
GQview is the predecessor to Geeqie. It had been developed from 1998 to 2006 by John Ellis, the last release being in December 2006.[7] Efforts to contact Ellis since then proved unsuccessful, so a group of interested developers forked the GQview code, adopted the name Geeqie, and set about enhancing it.[8] In some Linux distributions (such as
Debian[9] and its derivatives), a gqview package was provided as a shortcut to Geeqie for easier upgrade.