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  31 <H1>10.1 General Options</H1>
  32 <P>This section describes the options presented under the General Tab
  33 of the preferences dialog.</P>
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  36 <P><U>Startup</U></P>
  37 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Change to folder</B>: Enabling this
  38 will cause Geeqie to initially open to the specified folder.</P>
  39 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Use Current</B>: Activate this
  40 button to change the setting to the current folder.</P>
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  45 <U>Thumbnails</U></P>
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  47         <DL>
  48                 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none"><B>Size</B>:
  49                 Selects the size of the thumbnails displayed throughout Geeqie,
  50                 dimensions are width by height in pixels.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
  51                 <B>Quality</B>: Selects the method to use when scaling an image
  52                 down for thumbnails.</DD></DL>
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  55 <B>Nearest</B>: Fastest scaler, but results in poor thumbnail
  56 quality.<BR><B>Tiles</B>: Thumbnail results are very close to
  57 bilinear, with better speed.<BR><B>Bilinear</B>: High quality
  58 results, moderately fast.<BR><B>Hyper</B>: Slowest scaler, sometimes
  59 gives better results than bilinear.</P>
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  62                 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in"><B>Cache thumbnails</B>: Enable
  63                 this to save thumbnails to disk, subsequent requests for a
  64                 thumbnail will be faster. Thumbnails are cached into
  65                 ($HOME)/.geeqie/thumbnails. Refer to <A HREF="11_3_thumbnails.html">11.3
  66                 thumbnails</A> for details.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">
  67                 <B>Use shared thumbnail cache:</B> This will use a thumbnail
  68                 caching method that is compatible with applications that use the
  69                 standard thumbnail specification. When this option is enabled
  70                 thumbnails will be stored in ($HOME)/.thumbnails</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">
  71                 <B>Cache thumbnails into .thumbnails</B>: When enabled, Geeqie
  72                 attempts to store cached thumbnails closer to the source image.
  73                 This way multiple users can benefit from a single cache, thereby
  74                 reducing wasted disk space. The resulting location is the source
  75                 image's folder, in a sub folder with the name <B>.thumbnails</B>.
  76                 When the image source folder cannot be written, Geeqie falls back
  77                 to saving the thumbnail in the user's home folder.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
  78                 <B>Use xvpics thumbnails when found</B>: xvpics is a common
  79                 thumbnail caching format used by several applications. Thumbnails
  80                 are stored locally to the source image in a sub folder with the
  81                 name <B>.xvpics</B>. Enabling this option will allow Geeqie to read
  82                 thumbnails saved in the xvpics format.</DD><DL>
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  85                                 <I>Note:</I> Support for xvpics is read only, Geeqie can not
  86                                 generate thumbnails in this format.</DD></DL>
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  93 <P><U>Slide show</U></P>
  94 <DL>
  95         <DL>
  96                 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none"><B>Delay
  97                 between image change</B>: Specifies the delay between images for
  98                 slide shows, in seconds.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
  99                 <B>Random</B>: When enabled, slide show images will appear in
 100                 random order.</DD><DL>
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 103                                 <I>Note:</I> Random images are displayed such that each image
 104                                 appears once per cycle of all images. When the slide show repeat
 105                                 option is enabled, the image order is randomized after completing
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 109                 <B>Repeat</B>: When enabled, slide shows will continue at the
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