Viewnior 1.7
Viewnior is a fast and simple image viewer for Linux. Viewnior 1.7 is the most current version of Viewnior.
"Viewnior is an image viewer with a minimalistic interface that is fast, simple, and light. It supports GIF animations, fullscreen and slideshow mode, rotation, flipping and cropping. It is written in C (GTK+) and designed with usability in mind."
Viewnior 1.7
New features included:
- Show image dimensions to title bar
- Add option to hide the scrollbars
- Wallpaper support for Cinnamon, Puppylinux, and autodetect DE
- Updated translations
Fixed:
- Setting wallpaper on XFCE 4.12+ and MATE
Misc:
- Move to the Meson Build system
New features included:
- Show image dimensions to title bar
- Add option to hide the scrollbars
- Wallpaper support for Cinnamon, Puppylinux, and autodetect DE
- Updated translations
Fixed:
- Setting wallpaper on XFCE 4.12+ and MATE
Misc:
- Move to the Meson Build system
At the time of writing this page, Viewnior 1.7 could only be installed on Ubuntu and its derivatives by source code. You must have the newest versions of exiv2 and gexiv2 before you install Viewnior 1.7. In order to install Viewnior 1.7 on your system, follow the following steps below.
Open your Terminal and enter the following:
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y cmake meson libgirepository1.0-dev libgirepository1.0-doc valac
These next two lines are also required:
sudo apt-get install gtk2.0
sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev
Open your Terminal and enter the following:
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y cmake meson libgirepository1.0-dev libgirepository1.0-doc valac
These next two lines are also required:
sudo apt-get install gtk2.0
sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev
How to Install exiv2 & gexiv2
exiv2 part
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/exiv2/exiv2-0.27.2-Source.tar.gz
tar -xf exiv2-0.27.2-Source.tar.gz
cd exiv2-0.27.2-Source/
cmake .
make
sudo make install
Check:
exiv2 --version | head -n1
gexiv2 part
cd ~/Downloads
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gexiv2/0.11/gexiv2-0.11.0.tar.xz
tar -xf gexiv2-0.11.0.tar.xz
cd gexiv2-0.11.0/
meson build
cd build
sudo meson install
How to Install Viewnior 1.7
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://github.com/hellosiyan/Viewnior/archive/viewnior-1.7.tar.gz
tar zxvf viewnior-1.7.tar.gz
cd Viewnior-viewnior-1.7
meson --prefix=/usr builddir
cd ./builddir
ninja
sudo ninja install
exiv2 part
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/exiv2/exiv2-0.27.2-Source.tar.gz
tar -xf exiv2-0.27.2-Source.tar.gz
cd exiv2-0.27.2-Source/
cmake .
make
sudo make install
Check:
exiv2 --version | head -n1
gexiv2 part
cd ~/Downloads
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gexiv2/0.11/gexiv2-0.11.0.tar.xz
tar -xf gexiv2-0.11.0.tar.xz
cd gexiv2-0.11.0/
meson build
cd build
sudo meson install
How to Install Viewnior 1.7
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://github.com/hellosiyan/Viewnior/archive/viewnior-1.7.tar.gz
tar zxvf viewnior-1.7.tar.gz
cd Viewnior-viewnior-1.7
meson --prefix=/usr builddir
cd ./builddir
ninja
sudo ninja install
Once installed, everything should work like it should.
You now have the ability to click on the Image menu and click on Set as Wallpaper to change your wallpaper or desktop background.
How to Uninstall Viewnior 1.7:
"Compiling from source is an unsupported method of installing software that bypasses the package management system (which is used by the Software Centre) completely. There is no standard way that software compiled from source is installed or uninstalled so no way Ubuntu can know what to do. The software is not even listed as an installed program." -- dv3500ea
The best way to remove software installed via source code is to manually remove the installed files.
sudo rm -r -f /usr/share/viewnior
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/viewnior.desktop
sudo rm /usr/bin/viewnior
sudo rm /usr/share/man/man1/viewnior.1
If the icon still appears in your menu then you can remove it via the Main Menu editor. Highlight the Graphics menu on the left and select Viewnior in the middle and then click the Delete button. This will remove the icon from your menu.
"Compiling from source is an unsupported method of installing software that bypasses the package management system (which is used by the Software Centre) completely. There is no standard way that software compiled from source is installed or uninstalled so no way Ubuntu can know what to do. The software is not even listed as an installed program." -- dv3500ea
The best way to remove software installed via source code is to manually remove the installed files.
sudo rm -r -f /usr/share/viewnior
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/viewnior.desktop
sudo rm /usr/bin/viewnior
sudo rm /usr/share/man/man1/viewnior.1
If the icon still appears in your menu then you can remove it via the Main Menu editor. Highlight the Graphics menu on the left and select Viewnior in the middle and then click the Delete button. This will remove the icon from your menu.
Jan 7, 2020