This section describes the options presented under the Advanced Tab of the preferences dialog.
Selects the location and position of the full screen window. 'Determined by window manager' will leave the window placement up to the window manager. 'Active screen' places the window on the same screen as the Geeqie main window. 'Active monitor' does the same, but limits the full screen window size to the monitor containing the main window. The remaining choices are dependent on the multiple monitor configuration.
Enable this to have Geeqie ask the window manager to keep the full screen window above other windows. Note that the window manager may ignore the request. This option is not relevant when the full screen location is determined by the window manager.
This option delays the image change in full screen until the next image is entirely decoded into memory, the result is a smoother transition between images.
This option will execute xscreensaver-command --deactivate once per minute to avoid the screen saver from activating when Geeqie is displayed full screen.
Enable this to have the image overlay info displayed by default
Overlay info is customizable through this template
Overlay info format string syntax is: %tag[:max_length][:extra]%
To access exif data use the exif name, for example: %Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal% to get the date of the original shot
Pre-formatted exif data is also available:
You can limit the length of displayed data using :number notation:
%formatted.Camera:20% will truncate the displayed data to 20 characters
and will add 3 dots at the end to denote the truncation.
If two or more variables are connected with the |-sign, it prints available
variables with a separator:
%formatted.ShutterSpeed%|%formatted.ISOSpeedRating%|%formatted.FocalLength%
could show:
"1/20s - 400 - 80 mm"
or
"1/200 - 80 mm" if there's no ISO information in the Exif data.
If a line is empty, it is removed. This allows to add lines that totally disappear when no data is available.
Extra string uses special character '*' to mark the position of the data. If no '*' is present, then extra string is just appended to data. Any "\n" is replaced by a newline on display. Pango mark up is accepted in left and right parts. If data is empty, nothing will be displayed.
Examples:
%name:<i>*</i>\n%%size:\n%%formatted.ISOSpeedRating:ISO *%Collection <b>*</b>\nShow syntax help
Restore default image overlay template
Prompts for confirmation before deleting files.
Disable this to disassociate the delete file function from the Delete key. This option does not effect the [Control] + D key sequence. May be useful in combination with “confirm file delete”, above, disabled so that accidentally hitting a single key will not result in deleted files.
Moves deleted files to a temporary folder, for easy retrieval of deleted files. Files in the temporary folder are retained until the maximum size is reached, at which point deleting additional files will result in the removal of the oldest files to reclaim the space needed for the new files.
Note: Files moved to the Safe Delete folder are prefixed with a six digit number in the format: nnnnnn_FILENAME
This is used by the delete feature to distinguish which files to remove first when clearing space for new files.
The digit counter increments with each deleted file.
The location of the folder used by the Safe Delete feature.
The size to use for the Safe Delete folder, in megabytes.
Removes all files contained in the Safe Delete folder.
Changes the Geeqie main window to display the contents of the Safe Delete folder.
Enable this to change the selection method used when selecting multiple items in an icon view.
This will allow Geeqie to read sub folder content to determine if it should display expander indicators in the folder tree view.
Note: Disable this if Geeqie wakes up auto mounted network shares, or takes too long to initially display the folder view.
Enable this to display directory modification date along its name in the list view
When renaming a single file, this will allow the rename entry to appear directly over the original filename.
Enable this option to show a "Copy path" menu item in applicable menus.
This allows to copy path to files or directories to the clipboard, names are enclosed with double quotes and separated by space.
This is the number of entries saved in the recent open file list.
This is the width and height of the icon generated from image and displayed when doing drap'n drop actions. High resolution screens may require to increase this number.
This will cause image panning speed to gradually accelerate when holding down the keyboard arrows.
The default is for the mouse wheel to change the image, and to scroll the image when shift is used in combination with the wheel. Enabling this swaps the behavior so that operating the wheel will scroll the image, and holding down shift will change the image.
This defines the path to use for the "Home" button in the main window. By default or when this field is empty, this is the user's directory.
Pressing this button will set the Home button path to the current open directory.
When enabled, Geeqie attempts to store metadata such as keywords closer to the source image. The resulting location is the source image's folder, in a sub folder with the name ".metadata". When the image source folder cannot be written, Geeqie falls back to saving the medata in "$HOME/.geeqie/metadata".
When enabled, Geeqie attempts to store keywords and comments as XMP tags in the image file itself. Obviously, this will modify the concerned files.
This setting is used by the compare method “similarity (custom)”, located in the Find Duplicates window.
Geeqie only renders the visible portion of an image. To reduce rendering the same area frequently when panning an image, some memory is used to retain the recently rendered image data. This value controls the maximum amount of memory to use.
Note: This setting controls the amount of memory for each image window.