qView
qView is a Qt image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind. It can be installed on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
qView is one of the most elegant or stylish image viewers for any operating system. "qView was designed from the very start to be as visually minimal and space efficient as possible. No cluttered interface, just your image and a titlebar. qView features a myriad of configurable preferences to ensure the best experience for as many people as possible. qView supports all common image formats including bmp, gif, jpg, png, tiff, and webp. Whatever operating system you use, the experience is designed to be as native as possible. qView is completely free and open source software based on Qt5. It can be found on Github under the GPLv3 license." ("WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web.")
How to Install qView:
1. Open the Terminal (Shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + T)
2. Type the following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jurplel/qview
3. Press Enter or Return and type in your password
4. Type the following command: sudo apt-get update
5. Type the following command: sudo apt install qview
6. Type Y and press Enter or Return
You can also download an installation file to match your operating system from Releases on Github or the Download section on the developers website.
How to Uninstall qView:
1. Open the Terminal (Shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + T)
2. Type the following command: sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:jurplel/qview
3. Type the following command: sudo apt remove qview
1. Open the Terminal (Shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + T)
2. Type the following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jurplel/qview
3. Press Enter or Return and type in your password
4. Type the following command: sudo apt-get update
5. Type the following command: sudo apt install qview
6. Type Y and press Enter or Return
You can also download an installation file to match your operating system from Releases on Github or the Download section on the developers website.
How to Uninstall qView:
1. Open the Terminal (Shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + T)
2. Type the following command: sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:jurplel/qview
3. Type the following command: sudo apt remove qview
You access the commands or features of qView by right-clicking anywhere within your image.
You can customize qView by highlighting Tools in the menu and then click on Preferences. If you prefer to display a menubar then click on the Window tab in the Preferences dialog box and place a check next to Show menubar. You have a lot more options throughout the different tabs. Click the Apply button and then the OK button when you are finished making changes. You can always click the Restore Defaults button to restore qView back to its original settings.
You can change the View options via the menu. As you can see in the image below, each option has an assigned shortcut. You can remember the Keyboard Shortcuts for the features you use the most.
You can press the Right arrow button to advance to the Next file or image or press the Left arrow button to go to the Previous file or image if you have multiple images in a folder.
At the time of making this webpage, the version of qView was 3.0.
You can make the About qView and Welcome dialog boxes go away by right-clicking anywhere in the titlebar and click Close.
qView and bomi media player are both elegant and stylish and designed to be as visually minimal and space efficient as possible.
Jan 14, 2020