Re: [PLUG] slide show

[Colin Devine <devinec@sas.upenn.edu>]

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> What do people use for slide shows, as in, looking at a bunch of
> digital pictures at full screen?
>
> I like eog as an image viewer in full screen mode, but it doesn't seem
> to have an auto-advance feature.  In addition, it wants to read all
> the images before it loads, so it's impractical to view, say, 200
> images from a 5 Mpixel camera.
>
> Display (from ImageMagick) is very nice, but doesn't auto-scale to fit
> the screen.  In addition, the slide show, whether from the menu or
> invoked on the command line with "-delay 2" for a 2 second delay, is
> not reliable.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it just stops and doesn't
> want to restart.
>
> Any suggestions?

I really like GQview.  It has slideshow, zoom in/out, fit to window and
a bunch of other nice features.

http://gqview.sourceforge.net/

From the Overview page:

GQview is an image viewer for Unix operating systems (developed on
Linux). It's key features include single click file viewing, external
editor support, thumbnail preview, and zoom features. Some image
management features are also included.



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