Introduction

I started this simple X11 image viewer for Linux because I was tired of the all too complexe image viewers with lots of useless UI and no proper ways of analysing biger and biger images from recent cameras. The main drivers are: lightweight, fast and efficient viewer with no UI, no dependancies to huge libraries, only X11 and controled solely by key shortcuts and mouse. It is well suited for lightweight configurations and small screens such as NetBooks or TabletPC. Having no UI, you can use the whole screen to view the image. I use it to view images from my camera (10Mpxls) on my EEE-PC 4G NetBook (800x480 screen).

Downloads

xiv on sourceforge and lordikc.

Description

xiv is a lightweight simple image viewer for Linux (or unix) systems requiring only X11. It takes the best of your screen by avoiding menus, toolbars, panels and so. xiv opens natively 8 bits and 16 bits binary PPM/TIF/JPG images and uses ImageMagick to convert other formats. You can pan, zoom, rotate, enhance contrast/luminosity/gamma with keys and mouse interaction. It provides a very efficient way of analysing a big image In addition, it can be controled from a FIFO pipe.