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`eog` stands for Eye of GNOME, which is the default GNOME image viewer.

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How to add WebP support to Eye of GNOME?

WebP image files are becoming more and more common on the web. Eye of GNOME (eog) doesn't support it out-of-the-box. Some browsers do, and ImageMagick as well by just installing the webp package (magick/convert -list format). A simple search leads…
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Low quality image rendering in gthumb/eog

I am having problems with image quality when reducing images or zooming out in certain applications. It looks almost as if the image is not being smoothed or anti-aliased. On the left is gthumb/eog (look the same) - on the right is gimp. Left one…
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Zoom in on small photos without losing pixel crispness

I'm working on some pixel art but when I preview it in something like eye of gnome, the image gets blurry instead of showing crisp pixels. I know this sounds backwards, but how do I prevent that? Opening the file in GIMP shows crisp pixels as…
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What's keeping Shotwell from replacing EOG?

I have noticed that Shotwell has a pretty capable image viewer but EOG is still used for opening image files, which means Ubuntu's default install has two apps for the same purpose. I wonder why Shotwell isn't set as the default image viewer and EOG…
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Image colors are wrong in 'eog'

When I open an image file in eog it displays the wrong color. Here is a screenshot of the problem: And here is a screenshot of the problem temporarily fixed: by using xprop -root -remove _ICC_PROFILE What I wanted to know is there a permanent way…
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Can't open .jpg files extracted from an .iso, what to do?

Recently, I extracted some pictures from an .iso file, but I can't see them. When I try to open these .jpg files with Image Viewer, it shows me this error: Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0xda) (the expression…
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Opening images sorted by modification date/size/type/etc

Suppose I have a folder with pictures. If I sort them by name once I open one with Image Viewer and navigate to the others the order is respected. But if I sort my files by modification date, for example, I can't do that. Basically, the default…
menino bolinho
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Image viewer with mousewheel scrolling

Is there an image viewer which allows the user to scroll the zoomed image using the mouse wheel? It's a crucial functionality, which I'm missing in EOG, gThumb etc...
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Changing mouse behaviour in EOG

When I open a photo in eog I can easily zoom with the mouse mouse wheel. This is kind of nice but since I have a touchpad with two-fingered scrolling and horizontal scrolling I'd rather scroll in the image and zoom by using Ctrl+Mouse Wheel? I…
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Fix animated GIF images which eog can't open, but Firefox and ImageMagick can

I received a collection of animated GIF images from a friend, but I am unable to open some of them them with the standard image viewer eog. The error messages showing up when trying to open them include: GIF image loader cannot understand this…
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View images fit to width in Image Viewer

How can I make the Image viewer fit all images to width?
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Ubuntu 22.04: Both eye of gnome and gimp failing with undefined symbol error

Since a few days both eog and gimp fail when launched from the command line. I get the same error message from both: gimp: symbol lookup error: /snap/core20/current/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0: undefined symbol: __libc_pthread_init, version…
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.jpg image error "Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x52 0x49)"

Whenever i click on image to see, this error pops up: Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x52 0x49) i'm not able to see all the image. please can someone help me to fix this issue? thank you .
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image viewer: mouse wheel to move back and forward

In the gnome image viewer (3.2.0), I would like to change these shortcuts for next/prev image to use the mousewheel. I would also like to change it in shotwell if possible. Current the mousewheel is assigned to zoom in/out on the current image,…
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Eye Of Gnome (eog) keyboard shortcuts

Does there exists some list of keyboard shortcuts? I want to know how to turn photos (and other manipulations). I couldn't google it.
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