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GEEQIE(1) User Commands GEEQIE(1)

NAME

Geeqie - GTK based multiformat image viewer

DESCRIPTION

Geeqie is an interactive GTK based image viewer that supports multiple image formats, zooming, panning, thumbnails and sorting images into collections.

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Usage:

geeqie [OPTION?] [path...]

Geeqie is an image viewer.

Version: Geeqie 2.6.1

Help Options:

Show help options
Show all help options
Show GApplication options
Show GTK+ Options

Application Options:

execute keyboard action (https://www.geeqie.org/help/GuideReferenceRemoteKeyboardActions.html)
list available keyboard actions (some are redundant)
previous image
clean the metadata cache
render thumbnails
render thumbnails recursively
render thumbnails (see Help)
render thumbnails recursively (see Help)
clear or clean shared thumbnail cache
clear or clean thumbnail cache
close window
load configuration from FILE
turn on debug output
set slide show delay to Hrs Mins N.M seconds,
find duplicates in folder
export duplicates search result
find duplicates in folder recursively
open FILE or URL bring Geeqie window to the top
open FILE or URL do not bring Geeqie window to the top
list known file extensions
first image
start / toggle in full screen mode
set main window location and geometry
get collection content
get collection list
get destination path of FILE (https://www.geeqie.org/help/GuidePluginsConfig.html)
get file info
get list of files and class
get list of files and class recursive
get rectangle coordinates
get render intent
get list of selected files
get list of sidecars of FILE
get list of windows
filter debug output
window id for following commands
last image
save log data to file
run lua script on FILE
new window
next image
print pixel info of mouse pointer on current image
terminate returned data with null character instead of newline
quit
bring the Geeqie window to the top
adds the current file (or the specified file) to the current selection
clears the current selection
removes the current file (or the specified file) from the current selection
show log window
start recursive slide show in FOLDER
toggle slide show
print filename [and Collection] of current image
toggle tools
print version info
open FILE in new window
X display to use
All other command line parameters are used as plain files if they exist, or a URL or a folder. The name of a collection, with or without either path or extension (.gqv) may be used.
If more than one folder is on the command line, only the last will be used.
If more than one file is on the command line:
If they are in the same folder, that folder will be opened and those files will be selected. If they are not in the same folder, a new Collection containing those files will be opened.
To run Geeqie as a new instance, use: GQ_NEW_INSTANCE=y[es] geeqie Normally a single set of configuration files is used for all instances. However, the environment variables XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME can be used to modify this behavior on an individual basis e.g. XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/tmp/a XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp/b GQ_NEW_INSTANCE=y geeqie
To disable Clutter use: GQ_DISABLE_CLUTTER=y[es] geeqie
To run or stop Geeqie in cache maintenance (non-GUI) mode use: GQ_CACHE_MAINTENANCE=y[es] geeqie --help
User manual: https://www.geeqie.org/help/GuideIndex.html
: https://www.geeqie.org/help-pdf/help.pdf

BUGS

Please send bug reports and feedback to https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by John Ellis. Copyright (C) 2004-2025 by The Geeqie Team. Use this software at your own risk! This software released under the GNU General Public License. Please read the COPYING file for more information.

June 2025 Geeqie 2.6.1 GTK3