Menus

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.

Calls the standard GTK application chooser for a single file.

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 to the first image.

Goes to the previous image.

Goes to the next image

Goes to the last image

Each image you view is appended to a chain. You may traverse forwards and backwards through this chain using this and the following key. Move to the previous image in the chain.

Move to the next image in the chain.

Back Goes to the previous folder

Goes to the the Home folder as defined in Window Layout

Goes to the first page.

Goes to the last page.

Goes to the previous page.

Goes to the next page.

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 ³ . Each data item copied will be enclosed in quotes.

Copy selected item-path(s) to clipboard. The data will not be enclosed in quotes.

Perform a standard control-X operation.

Displays marks in the file list

Clear all marks for all images

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.

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.

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.

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 three horizontal 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 highlighting of pixels that are either over or under exposed. This function operates on the displayed pixels. If a raw file is being displayed, the embedded jpeg data is being used. If the image is zoomed, the zoom type affects the results. Two-pass rendering also has some influence.

Toggles display of the Keywords sidebar.

Toggles display of the Sort Manager sidebar.

This item is intended to be used by its shortcut key. When pressed, the info sidebar, sort manager, file list, menu and status bars will be hidden (if displayed). Pressing the shortcut key again will revert the display to its previous layout.

This item is intended to be used by its shortcut key. When pressed, bars selected in Preferences/General will be hidden. Pressing shortcut key 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 a new window with the default layout. The window is given a name in the form "lw<n>".

Opens a new window with the layout of the window that has focus. The window is given a name in the form "lw<n>".

If a window is given a name that does not begin with the characters "lw", the layout will be saved and be available for loading at a later time..

Delete a saved window layout from the list.

Close the window. If the window is the "main" window, close all windows.

Opens the Geeqie user manual in a new browser window.

Opens a text box in which you may type characters to find a command. The characters you type will be matched to the first characters of any word in all the commands in Geeqie - both built-in commands and plugins - and matching actions will be displayed in a pop-up. You may scroll to any of the matching commands and press Enter to execute the command. Pressing Enter without selecting from the list will execute the first action in the list. Press Esc to close the box.

Use a web browser to search Geeqie's on-line help files. The search engine used is defined in Preferences General .

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.