This section describes the functions of each item on the menu bar in the Geeqie main window.
Opens a new main window, with the initial path set to the current folder.
Opens a new collection window, the new collection will be empty.
Displays a dialog to open a collection stored on disk, the selected collection will then appear in a new window.
This menu item lists the recently active collections, selecting an item from the list will open that collection in a new window. The most recent item will appear at the top of the list. Maximum number of entries can be modified through Open recent list maximum size option.
Opens a new Search window.
Opens a new Find Duplicates window.
Opens a print dialog.
Creates a new folder in the current path.
Opens a dialog to select a destination to copy the currently selected files.
Opens a dialog to select a destination to move currently selected files.
Renames the current file selection.
Deletes the current file selection.
Creates a symbolic link. This is implemented via a plugin .
Closes the window containing the menu, if the window is the last main window Geeqie will quit.
Quits the Geeqie application, if collections or image metadata have been changed but not saved, the user will be prompted for confirmation.
Goes tothe first image.
Goes to the previous image.
Goes to the next image
Goes to the last image
Back Goes to the previous folder
Goes to the the Home folder as defined in Window Layout
Selects all files in the current list
Deselects all files
Inverts current selection
Toggles rectangular selection mode for icons
Copy selected item-path(s) to clipboard 1 . Each data item copied will be enclosed in quotes.
Copy selected item-path(s) to clipboard. The data will not be enclosed in quotes.
Displays marks in the file list
Opens submenu for manipulating mark n
Set or unset mark n on selected files
Set mark n on selected files
Unset mark n on selected files
Selects all files having mark n set
Adds files having mark n set to selection
Intersects current selection and mark n
Removes files having mark n set from current selection
Shows only the images that have mark n set.
Adjust image orientation
Rotates the current image clockwise 90 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.
Rotates the current image counterclockwise 90 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.
Rotates the current image 180 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.
Swaps the left and right sides of the image so that the result is similar to that of looking at the image in a mirror, does not modify the file on disk.
Swaps the top and bottom sides of the image, does not modify the file on disk.
The above orientation commands - Rotate, Mirror and Flip - do not change the image on disk. The changes will be lost when Geeqie closes. Refer to the Metadata tab of the Preferences Dialog if you wish these changes to be written to metadata.
Refer also to the FAQ .
Removes all temporary effects applied through the above commands, reverting the image according to its Exif Orientation tag.
Auto rotates images based on metadata stored in images that have Exif data. Refer also to the FAQ .
This command affects only jpeg, tiff and png files. The image file on disk is rotated to the orientation as specified by its Exif Orientation tag.
The file rotate.desktop, using external commands exiftran, exiv2 and mogrify, is used to implement this command. Refer to Plugins section for details.
Rotates the current image counterclockwise 90 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.
Rotates the current image 180 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.
Saves the current image orientation to the disk file. This operation can only be carried out on jpeg, tiff and png files. Jpeg rotations are lossless.
As above, but the file date and time are preserved.
Set a Rating value for each image.
"n" is in the range 0 to 5. Sets the Rating value for the image.
Sets the Rating value to -1 for the image.
Saves queued metadata changes. Autosave can be configured too.
Opens the Preferences Dialog for changing of global preferences.
Opens the Plugins Dialog for changing of desktop files.
Opens the Window Preferences Dialog for changing of options that can differ for each window.
Opens a dialog with utilities for thumbnail and keyword Cache and Data Maintenance .
Renders the current image to the root window (desktop). The resulting image will be tiled to fit the root window if zoom is not set to Fit to window ; when zoom is set to Fit to window , the image will be scaled to fill the root window.
This menu contains the plugins (desktop files) that were found on the system. See the Plugins section for details.
Opens selected image in its own window
Opens current folder in Pan view window
Toggles display of the Exif sidebar.
Set the folder view mode to list.
Set the folder view mode to tree.
Changes the file list to display files in list format.
Changes the file list to display files as icons.
Toggles the display of image thumbnails in the file list, this item is not available when the file list is in icon view mode. A check appears next to this item when thumbnails are enabled.
Splits the 3-pane main window into two parts:
Hides the File and Folder panes, along with menu and status bar. Right-click on the Image pane provides a menu item to redisplay these items.
Toggles visibility of the tool bar. A check appears next to this item when the tool bar is not visible.
Actions in this menu are identical to those in Zoom menu, but apply to all images displayed in split view.
Increases the zoom by one increment, resulting in a larger image.
Decreases the zoom by one increment, resulting in a smaller image.
Automatically adjusts the zoom so that the image will fit within the display pane. The effect on images with an original size smaller than the display pane can be changed with the Allow enlargement of image for zoom to fit option located on the Image tab of the preferences dialog.
Adjusts the zoom so image height fit within the display pane.
Adjusts the zoom so image width fit within the display pane.
Set zoom to the n:m value. 1:1 is the original size of the image. When n is greater than m, zoom in occurs else zoom out occurs.
Splits main image view in two horizontal panes.
Splits main image view in two vertical panes.
Splits main image view in four panes.
Reverts to normal view mode (one image).
Displays Image Overlay information box (OSD), use twice to add histogram to it.
Switches channels displayed in the histogram (red, green, blue, RGB, value, maximum value).
Toggles between linear and logarithmical histogram.
Toggles the full screen window display.
Toggles display of the Keywords sidebar.
Toggles display of the Sort Manager sidebar.
This item is intended to be used by its shortcut key - by default this is the backtick key. When pressed, the info sidebar, sort manager and file list will be hidden (if displayed). Pressing backtick again will revert the display to its previous layout.
Begins or ends a slide show, the slide show status is displayed in the status bar.
Pauses a slide show, the slide show status is displayed in the status bar.
Decreases slide show interval in units of 0.5 seconds.
Increases slide show interval in units of 0.5 seconds.
Updates the contents of the folder and file lists to match what is currently on disk, the current image will also be reread from disk.
Opens the Geeqie user manual in a new browser window.
Displays a window listing the default keyboard shortcuts.
Displays an image showing the currently allocated keyboard shortcuts.
Displays a window containing the release notes for the version of Geeqie in use.
Opens a window containing the Geeqie version, credits, website, and email contact information.
Opens the log window, mostly used for debugging purposes.
Menus can be permanently displayed by selecting the dotted line item at the top of each menu category. A tear off menu will behave the same as an ordinary window. To close a tear off menu, select the dotted line item at the top of the menu.
The keyboard sequence associated to each menu entry is listed within the main window menu bar. For reference, the complete list of default keyboard shortcuts can be found in section Keyboard Shortcuts .
The section Keyboard Options descibes how to modify the keyboard shortcuts used in the main menu.