Questions tagged [gthumb]
gThumb is an advanced image viewer and browser. It has many useful features, such as filesystem browsing, slide show, image catalogs, web album creation, camera import, image CD burning, batch file operations and quick image editing features like transformation and color manipulation.
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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 (...
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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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gThumb freezes on start
I am not sure if some .lock file remained somewhere or it happened after yesterday's system update, but I cannot start gThumb any more.
When I open it it freezes, turns grey and I have to kill it.
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How can I launch gThumb (version > 3.4.3) with light background colors in menus and browser like before?
In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and before, the gThumb application (version 3.4.3) has a light background in its menus, its browser and its dialogues – like white or light grey. So the gThumb application fits ...
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How to use the keyboard in gthumb image viewer?
I cannot use arrows nor shift-space, nor any key or key combination to go to previous image in gthumb 2.13.1 (Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.10). There should be shortcut-keys even to flip horizontally and ...
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How to downgrade gthumb in 16.04?
I greatly dislike the user interface changes between the version of gthumb in 16.04 and the version that was in 14.04. But the deal breaker is this "loading original image" dialog box that pops up ...
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How to save as GIF in Gthumb
I edited a GIF image (no animations) with gthumb and on trying to save I encountered the error:
Could not save the file
Could not find a suitable module to save the image as "image/gif"
I jumped ...
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How to view media files recursively with subfolder in gthumb
If I click some folder or Catalog, I want to see all the photos and videos. So the media from the subfolder should be in my Browser View.
Is this possible?
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gThumb Browser and Viewer should have black background, how to do?
I really like gThumb but I hate that gThumb is using my standard ambiance theme when viewing images. The result is that I have a lightgrey background for images but in my opinion images look the best ...
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How do I change the speed of the slideshow in gThumb?
How do I change the speed of the slideshow in gThumb? Is there a properties menu I am missing?
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Automatically generate raw thumbnails only with gThumb
I would like to generate camera raw file thumbnails (Nikon .NEF) in Nautilus with gThumb, without opening the app, and when no additional thumbnailer is installed. Some script or a Terminal command, I ...
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Larger thumbnails in Image Viewer (eog) or gThumb
I'm looking at images in full-screen mode with the thumbnail strip - both gThumb and eog work well, but the thumbnails are very small. So:
In eog, I go to [bar menu] > image gallery. The thumbnails ...
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Webkit2.h, what package does it reside in?
I'm trying to compile gThumb from source and enable all extensions, and I cannot get the webkit dependency resolved. I've installed all of the webkit development libraries I can seem to find to no ...
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Gthumb version 3.8 (or later) crashes resizing jpg on Ubuntu 20
my first post here, so bear with a newbie ;)
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with XFCE.
My system is up-to-date (sudo apt-get update/upgrade)
I have been using Gthumb for years without problems. Since a ...
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Change exif date of photo with gthumb
According to the gthumb help section in Gnome Help it should be possible to change the date a photo was taken (DateTimeOriginal): "To change the file modification times, the comment dates, or the ...
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Can I restore "Copy To" and "Move To" to gthumb viewer context menu?
In the version of gthumb that came with 14.04, there were "Copy To" and "Move To" options in the right-click menu offered when viewing single images.
In the version that comes with 16.04 and later, ...
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Disable video opening in gThumb
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and gThumb 3.6. In gThumb, when I select with left click, or right click, one video or multiples, gThumb open video in big size thumbnail. It's really painful because I wish use ...
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Is it possible to use wildcards with Geeqie?
For a long time I have been using Gthumb as my image viewer of choice, since it's fast and allows me to use wildcards.
Since the last update though (version 3.4.3) the display of low resolution ...
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gThumb 3.2.7 Browser and Viewer how do I set a black background, old fix no longer available on d-conf
I would like to be able to change the background color in gThumb 3.2.7 to black as listed in the answer to this older post,
gThumb Browser and Viewer should have black background, how to do?
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Terminal command for gThumb Image Viewer
I have these two graphics applications.
In my control panel, their names are listed as gThumb and Image Viewer.
gThumb has too many features for my taste, so I normally use Image Viewer, which ...
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Gthumb 3 for ubuntu 10.04
I have ubuntu 10.04 installed and I don't want to upgrade, but I do want to enjoy new features of gthumb 3, like ability to import from folders etc.
After some googling, I found that 2.13.1 is the ...
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gThumb not showing thumbnails after software update
I just did a software update in 12.04 and it seems that gThumb was included in those updates. Suddenly, huge amounts of thumbnails, in the gThumb browser, are not displaying. They're there because the ...
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How can I quickly look through the images and videos within a folder
Is there an app that can allow me to preview photos and videos within a single folder? It does not necessarily have to be a "preview" it could simply open an app but I want to be able to ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 is there a way to directly trace an application in real time? [duplicate]
On Ubuntu 14.04 is there a way to directly trace an application in real time?
This maybe on here but I could not find a page in search with "Google" or "site search" that I could say applied. I did ...
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Apple iPhone 7 - Importing Pictures to Laptop Linux Ubuntu 17.04
I have A laptop with Ubuntu 17.04 & installed Gthumb, I need to sync my phone and remove the photos because I'm running low on space, but the PC isn't recognizing there are pictures.
Is there a ...
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Reset gThumb right panel size to default
Usually right panel with actions takes around 20 percent of the screen. Somehow, now it takes around 70, and takes too much place on the screen. I don't know how it happened (it's my dad's computer) ...
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gthumb suddenly won't start
gthumb, which had been working fine, suddenly won't start using the GUI and when run in terminal gives the following:
Could not load the mandatory extension 'cairo_io': Could not open the module “...
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How can I open gthumb maximized?
Is there a way to open images with gthumb using the full width and height of the screen? I mean to open them maximized. Now when I click on an image it always opens filling 1/4 of the screen.
When i ...
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gthumb 3.0.1 - how to view, empty Trash?
When I am browsing images with gthumb 3.0.1, hitting the DELete key removes the file from the browser (I assume by placing it into a gthumb Trash), but it remains on disk. And there appears to be no ...
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AVIF support on Ubuntu 20.04?
I have a few AVIF files. I can view them in Firefox, but I want to be able to open them in some image viewer/editor, and eventually convert them into another graphics format.
On Ubuntu Forums, I found ...
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gthumb won't start after upgrade to 22.04
Trying to start gthumb after an upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 I get following error message:
** (gthumb:4351): CRITICAL **: 16:22:51.965: Could not load the mandatory extension 'cairo_io': Modul »...
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GTHUMB crashes soon after starting to display folder full of JPG images
I have a number of IP cameras that send their images to one of the computers on my network. They have been working fine for years and the images are visible three of the four computers I use to ...
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gThumb Video Rotation
I have rotated a video using
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c copy -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=90 output.mp4
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exiftool -rotation=270 FILE.mp4
as I found in this answer. But gThumb does not honour this change in ...
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I want to run an old GNOME app
I know that what I want to do is a bit unusual, but I have a need to run a quite old version of gThumb (2.10.11, coming from Ubuntu 10.04) on Ubuntu 20.04.
(Someone asked me in the comments why, so ...
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gThumb crashes immediately on Ubuntu 20.04
I used gThumb for several years on 16.04. I installed it on my new 20.04 system but it crashes immediately when started.
I have one HDMI monitor and one DisplayPort monitor and a GeForce GTX 1660 ...
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