According to this issue, it looks like there are no plans, understandably, for making a version/fork of nsxiv but with native Wayland support.
Any recommendations for a simple image viewer in Hyprland?
Can you open animated gifs in imv? I just get a black screen, but the home page says animated gifs are supported.
I recently coded up a dirt simple image viewer. Like it is stupidly simple.
You can give it a go https://github.com/Dr-42/imeye
I tried imv and hated it. I just use feh (through XWayland) or mpv now.
Just tried it and, yes. Jpg, Png, and Webp open as a half-second video. Actually kinda neat, I adjusted gamma, saturation, and saved a copy with 3 button presses. Well, 4 if you count pause…
@guttermonk
Try swayimg
I like how it supports animated webp and gif files right out of the box. Would be perfect if you could open images from the file manager and navigate, but it doesn’t look like that’s in the works.
This commit seems to be related.
@guttermonk
I have a custom nuke opener file for nnn that do that’s that. Every time I open an image, it uses swayimg -r (recursively).
I gues you can do some like that with xdg-open
I navigated to my screenshot folder in terminal and opened an image using swayimg -r but it wouldn’t let me navigate with n or p. I also tried going to my Pictures folder and used swayimg Screenshots/* like this thread suggested, but still no luck.
Unfortunately, --all isn’t an option. The following options are available in swayimg:
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-r, --recursive read directories recursively
-o, --order=ORDER set sort order for image list: none/[alpha]/random
-s, --scale=SCALE set initial image scale: [optimal]/fit/width/height/fill/real
-l, --slideshow activate slideshow mode on startup
-f, --fullscreen show image in full screen mode
-p, --position=POS set window position [parent]/X,Y
-g, --size=SIZE set window size: [parent]/image/W,H
-a, --class=NAME set window class/app_id
-c, --config=S.K=V set configuration parameter: section.key=value
-v, --version print version info and exit
-h, --help print this help and exit
The gnome image viewer is Wayland native
Sounds interesting, but the requirements say it needs gnome-desktop. I’m using Hyprland on NixOS, so it doesn’t sound like this will work for my setup unfortunately. Thank you for the suggestion. Hopefully this helps others.
Currently, gnome has moved away from eye of Gnome to Image Viewer/Loupe. The website doesn’t have the dependencies though I don’t think you should need the gnome-desktop package. Perhaps you can look into it. Just be aware that the app is pretty barebones for now.
Edit - Alternatively, you could look into gwenview which is normally shipped in kde. That will have the advantage of shipping with a lot more editing options and since it is a more mature(I think is the right word) project, I expect it to have better support for esoteric file formats.
Gwenview looks a little too full featured, but the Gnome Image Viewer (Loupe) works well. No dependencies needed in Nix, and the arrow keys let you flip between different images that are in the same folder. All of the on-screen functionality works (copy, move to trash, zoom in/out, toggle full-screen, etc.), and keyboard shortcuts and gestures work great. The only bug I have to work out is that it doesn’t respect the gtk theme I have configured (GTK 2, 3, and 4). Otherwise, seems like a good option.
