LXImage-Qt

Overview

LXImage-Qt is the Qt port of LXImage, a simple and fast image viewer.

Features

• Zoom, rotate, flip and resize images
• Slideshow
• Thumbnail bar (left, top or bottom); different thumbnail sizes
• Exif data bar
• Inline image renaming
• Custom shortcuts
• Image annotations (arrow, rectangle, circle, numbers)
• Recent files
• Upload images (Imgur)
• Take screenshots

More features can be found when it is used. LXImage-Qt is maintained by the LXQt project but can be used independently from this desktop environment.

NOTE: LXImage-Qt can handle all image formats supported by Qt. qt6-imageformats and kimageformats extend the range of supported formats considerably and without extra dependencies. Their installation is recommended.

Installation

Compiling source code

Runtime dependencies are qtx11extras and libfm-qt. Additional build dependencies are CMake, lxqt-build-tools and optionally Git to pull latest VCS checkouts.

Code configuration is handled by CMake. CMake variable CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX has to be set to /usr on most operating systems.

To build run make, to install make install which accepts variable DESTDIR as usual.

Binary packages

Official binary packages are available in all major distributions. Just use the distributions' package manager to search for string 'lximage-qt'.

Translation

Translations can be done in LXQt-Weblate.