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432 <li>General Options</li>
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453 <div class="body body-sidebar"><div class="division section">
454 <a name="GuideOptionsGeneral"></a><div class="header"><h1 class="section title"><span class="title">General Options</span></h1></div>
455 <ul class="linktrail">
456 <li class="linktrail linktrail-first"><a class="linktrail" href="GuideIndex.html" title="The Geeqie User Manual">The Geeqie User Manual</a></li>
457 <li class="linktrail linktrail-last"><a class="linktrail" href="GuideOptionsMain.html" title="Preferences">Preferences</a></li>
459 <p class="para block block-first">This section describes the options presented under the General Tab of the preferences dialog.</p>
460 <div class="autotoc"><ul>
462 <span class="label">11.1.1. </span><a class="xref" href="GuideOptionsGeneral.html#PreferencesThumbnails" title="Thumbnails">Thumbnails</a>
465 <span class="label">11.1.2. </span><a class="xref" href="GuideOptionsGeneral.html#Slideshow" title="Slide show">Slide show</a>
468 <span class="label">11.1.3. </span><a class="xref" href="GuideOptionsGeneral.html#ImageLoadingandCaching" title="Image loading and caching">Image loading and caching</a>
471 <span class="label">11.1.4. </span><a class="xref" href="GuideOptionsGeneral.html#InfoSidebar" title="Info Sidebar component heights">Info Sidebar component heights</a>
474 <span class="label">11.1.5. </span><a class="xref" href="GuideOptionsGeneral.html#OnLineHelpSearch" title="On-line help search">On-line help search</a>
477 <div class="division section">
478 <a name="PreferencesThumbnails"></a><div class="header"><h2 class="section title"><span class="title"><span class="label">11.1.1. </span>Thumbnails</span></h2></div>
479 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
480 <dt class="term dt-first">
481 <span class="guilabel">Size</span>
484 <p class="para block block-first">Selects the size of the thumbnails displayed throughout Geeqie, dimensions are width by height in pixels.</p>
487 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
488 <dt class="term dt-first">
489 <span class="guilabel">Quality</span>
492 <p class="para block block-first">
493 Selects the method to use when scaling an image down for thumbnails:
494 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
495 <dt class="term dt-first">
496 <span class="guilabel">Nearest</span>
499 <p class="para block block-first">Fastest scaler, but results in poor thumbnail quality.</p>
502 <span class="guilabel">Tiles</span>
505 <p class="para block block-first">Thumbnail results are very close to bilinear, with better speed.</p>
508 <span class="guilabel">Bilinear</span>
511 <p class="para block block-first">High quality results, moderately fast.</p>
514 <span class="guilabel">Hyper</span>
517 <p class="para block block-first">Slowest scaler, sometimes gives better results than bilinear.</p>
523 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
524 <dt class="term dt-first">
525 <span class="guilabel">Cache thumbnails</span>
528 <p class="para block block-first">Enable this to save thumbnails to disk. Subsequent requests for a thumbnail will be faster.</p>
529 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
530 <dt class="term dt-first">
531 <span class="guilabel">Use Geeqie thumbnail style and cache</span>
534 <p class="para block block-first">Thumbnails are stored in a folder hierachy that mirrors the location of the source images. Thumbnails have the same name as the original appended by the file extension .png.</p>
535 <p class="para block">
536 The root of the hierachy is:
537 <p class="para block block-first">
538 <div dir="ltr" class=" block programlisting block-indent block-first"><pre class="programlisting">$XDG_CACHE_HOME/geeqie/thumbnails/</pre></div>
539 or, if $XDG_CACHE_HOME is not defined:
540 <div dir="ltr" class=" block programlisting block-indent"><pre class="programlisting">$HOME/.cache/geeqie/thumbnails/</pre></div>
545 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
546 <dt class="term dt-first">
547 <span class="guilabel">Store thumbnails local to image folder (non-standard)</span>
550 <p class="para block block-first">
551 When enabled, Geeqie attempts to store cached thumbnails closer to the source image. This way multiple users can benefit from a single cache, thereby reducing wasted disk space.
552 <p class="para block block-first"></p>
553 Thumbnails have the same name as the original appended by the file extension .png.
554 <p class="para block"></p>
555 The resulting location is the source image's folder, in a sub folder with the name
556 <div dir="ltr" class=" block programlisting block-indent"><pre class="programlisting">.thumbnails</pre></div>
557 <p class="para block"></p>
558 When the image source folder cannot be written, Geeqie falls back to saving the thumbnail in the user's home folder.
562 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
563 <dt class="term dt-first">
564 <span class="guilabel">Use standard thumbnail style and cache, shared with other applications</span>
567 <p class="para block block-first">
568 This will use a thumbnail caching method that is compatible with applications that use the standard thumbnail specification. When this option is enabled thumbnails will be stored in:
569 <p class="para block block-first">
570 <div dir="ltr" class=" block programlisting block-indent block-first"><pre class="programlisting">$XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails/</pre></div>
571 or, if $XDG_CACHE_HOME is not defined:
572 <div dir="ltr" class=" block programlisting block-indent"><pre class="programlisting">$HOME/.cache/thumbnails/</pre></div>
574 <p class="para block">
575 All thumbnails are stored in the same folder, with computer-generated filenames. Refer to
576 <a class="link" href="GuideReferenceThumbnails.html" title="Thumbnails">Thumbnails Reference</a>
577 for additional details.
584 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
585 <dt class="term dt-first">
586 <span class="guilabel">Use EXIF thumbnails when available</span>
589 <p class="para block block-first">Geeqie will extract thumbnail from EXIF data if available, instead of generating one. This will speed up thumbnails generation, but the EXIF thumbnail may be not in sync with the image if it was modified by a tool which did not also update the thumbnail data.</p>
593 <div class="division section">
594 <a name="Slideshow"></a><div class="header"><h2 class="section title"><span class="title"><span class="label">11.1.2. </span>Slide show</span></h2></div>
595 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
596 <dt class="term dt-first">
597 <span class="guilabel">Delay between image change</span>
599 <dd>Specifies the delay between images for slide shows, in seconds.</dd>
601 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
602 <dt class="term dt-first">
603 <span class="guilabel">Random</span>
606 When enabled, slide show images will appear in random order.
607 <div class="admonition block note block-first block-indent"><div class="note-inner">
608 <p class="para block block-first">Random images are displayed such that each image appears once per cycle of all images. When the slide show repeat option is enabled, the image order is randomized after completing each cycle.</p>
612 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
613 <dt class="term dt-first">
614 <span class="guilabel">Repeat</span>
616 <dd>This will cause the slide show to loop indefinitely, it will continue with the first image after displaying the last image in the slide show list.</dd>
619 <div class="division section">
620 <a name="ImageLoadingandCaching"></a><div class="header"><h2 class="section title"><span class="title"><span class="label">11.1.3. </span>Image loading and caching</span></h2></div>
621 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist">
622 <dt class="term dt-first">
623 <span class="guilabel">Decoded image cache size</span>
626 <p class="para block block-first">Limit the amount of memory available for caching images.</p>
629 <span class="guilabel">Preload next image</span>
632 <p class="para block block-first">Enabling this option will cause Geeqie to read the next logical image from disk when idle, it will also retain the previously viewed image in memory. By reading the nearest images into memory, time to display the next image is reduced.</p>
633 <div class="admonition block note block-indent"><div class="note-inner">
634 <p class="para block block-first">This option will increase Geeqie memory requirements, and may cause performance issues with very large images. If the use of Geeqie results in the system noticeably swapping memory to disk, try disabling this feature.</p>
638 <span class="guilabel">Refresh on file change</span>
641 <p class="para block block-first">Geeqie will monitor currently active images and folders for changes in their modification time, and update the display if it changes.</p>
642 <div class="admonition block note block-indent"><div class="note-inner">
643 <p class="para block block-first">Disable this if the system will not go into sleep mode due to occasional disk activity from the time check, or if Geeqie updates too often for folders with continuously changing content.</p>
648 <div class="division section">
649 <a name="InfoSidebar"></a><div class="header"><h2 class="section title"><span class="title"><span class="label">11.1.4. </span>Info Sidebar component heights</span></h2></div>
650 <p class="para block block-first">
651 The heights of the following components can be set individually:
652 <div class="block list itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist">
653 <li class="li-first">Keywords</li>
658 <div class="admonition block note block-indent"><div class="note-inner">
659 <p class="para block block-first">Geeqie must be restarted for changes to take effect.</p>
661 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"></dl></div>
663 <div class="division section">
664 <a name="OnLineHelpSearch"></a><div class="header"><h2 class="section title"><span class="title"><span class="label">11.1.5. </span>On-line help search</span></h2></div>
665 <p class="para block block-first">
666 An internet search engine may be used to search the help files on Geeqie's website. The string used to conduct the search is defined here. In most cases it will be in one of two formats:
667 <p class="para block block-first"></p>
668 <span class="code" dir="ltr">https://www.search-engine.com/search?q=site:geeqie.org/help</span>
669 <p class="para block"></p>
670 <span class="code" dir="ltr">https://www.search-engine.com/?q=site:geeqie.org/help'</span>
672 <div class="block list variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"></dl></div>
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