SXIV(1)SXIV(1)NAMEsxiv - Simple X Image Viewer
SYNOPSISsxiv [-abcfhioqrtvZ] [-G GAMMA] [-g GEOMETRY] [-N NAME] [-n NUM] [-S
DELAY] [-s MODE] [-z ZOOM] FILE...
DESCRIPTIONsxiv is a simple image viewer for X. It only has the most basic fea‐
tures required for fast image viewing.
sxiv has two modes of operation: image and thumbnail mode. The default
is image mode, in which only the current image is shown. In thumbnail
mode a grid of small previews is displayed, making it easy to choose an
image to open.
Please note, that the fullscreen mode requires an EWMH/NetWM compliant
window manager.
OPTIONS-a Play animations of multi-frame images.
-b Do not show info bar on bottom of window.
-c Remove all orphaned cache files from the thumbnail cache direc‐
tory and exit.
-f Start in fullscreen mode.
-G GAMMA
Set image gamma to GAMMA (-32..32).
-g GEOMETRY
Set window position and size. See section GEOMETRY SPECIFICA‐
TIONS of X(7) for more information on GEOMETRY argument.
-N NAME
Set the resource name of sxiv's X window to NAME.
-n NUM Start at picture number NUM.
-h Print brief usage information to standard output and exit.
-i Read names of files to open from standard input.
-o Write list of all marked files to standard output when quitting.
In combination with -isxiv can be used as a visual filter/pipe.
-q Be quiet, disable warnings to standard error stream.
-r Search the given directories recursively for images to view.
-S DELAY
Start in slideshow mode. Set the delay between images to DELAY
seconds.
-s MODE
Set scale mode according to MODE character. Supported modes are:
[d]own, [f]it, [w]idth, [h]eight.
-t Start in thumbnail mode.
-v Print version information to standard output and exit.
-Z The same as `-z 100'.
-z ZOOM
Set zoom level to ZOOM percent.
GENERAL KEYBOARD COMMANDS
The following keyboard commands are available in both image and thumb‐
nail mode:
0-9 Prefix the next command with a number (denoted via count).
q Quit sxiv.
Return Switch to thumbnail mode / open selected image in image mode.
f Toggle fullscreen mode.
b Toggle visibility of info bar on bottom of window.
Ctrl-x Send the next key to the external key-handler. See section
EXTERNAL KEY HANDLER for more information.
g Go to the first image.
G Go to the last image, or image number count.
r Reload image.
D Remove current image from file list and go to next image.
Ctrl-h, Ctrl-Left
Scroll left one screen width.
Ctrl-j, Ctrl-Down
Scroll down one screen height.
Ctrl-k, Ctrl-Up
Scroll up one screen height.
Ctrl-l, Ctrl-Right
Scroll right one screen width.
+ Zoom in.
- Zoom out.
m Mark/unmark the current image.
M Reverse all image marks.
Ctrl-m Remove all image marks.
N Go count marked images forward.
P Go count marked images backward.
THUMBNAIL KEYBOARD COMMANDS
The following keyboard commands are only available in thumbnail mode:
h, Left
Move selection left count times.
j, Down
Move selection down count times.
k, Up Move selection up count times.
l, Right
Move selection right count times.
R Reload all thumbnails.
IMAGE KEYBOARD COMMANDS
The following keyboard commands are only available in image mode:
Navigate image list
n, Space
Go count images forward.
p, Backspace
Go count images backward.
[ Go count * 10 images backward.
] Go count * 10 images forward.
Handle multi-frame images
Ctrl-n Go to the next frame of a multi-frame image.
Ctrl-p Go to the previous frame of a multi-frame image.
Ctrl-Space
Play/stop animations of multi-frame images.
Panning
h, Left
Scroll image 1/5 of window width or count pixel left.
j, Down
Scroll image 1/5 of window height or count pixel down.
k, Up Scroll image 1/5 of window height or count pixel up.
l, Right
Scroll image 1/5 of window width or count pixel right.
H Scroll to left image edge.
J Scroll to bottom image edge.
K Scroll to top image edge.
L Scroll to right image edge.
Zooming
= Set zoom level to 100%, or count%.
w Set zoom level to 100%, but fit large images into window.
W Fit image to window.
e Fit image to window width.
E Fit image to window height.
Rotation
< Rotate image counter-clockwise by 90 degrees.
> Rotate image clockwise by 90 degrees.
? Rotate image by 180 degrees.
Flipping
| Flip image horizontally.
_ Flip image vertically.
Gamma Correction
{ Decrease gamma.
} Increase gamma.
Ctrl-g Reset gamma.
Miscellaneous
a Toggle anti-aliasing.
A Toggle visibility of alpha-channel, i.e. image transparency.
s Toggle slideshow mode and/or set the delay between images to
count seconds.
MOUSE COMMANDS
The following mouse mappings are available in image mode:
Navigate image list
Button1
Go to next image.
Button3
Go to the previous image.
Panning
Button2
Drag the image with the mouse while keeping this button pressed
down.
ScrollUp
Scroll image up.
ScrollDown
Scroll image down.
Shift+ScrollUp
Scroll image left.
Shift+ScrollDown
Scroll image right.
Zooming
Ctrl+ScrollUp
Zoom in.
Ctrl+ScrollDown
Zoom out.
STATUS BAR
The information displayed on the left side of the status bar can be
replaced with the output of a user-provided script, which is called by
sxiv whenever an image gets loaded. The path of this script is
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sxiv/exec/image-info and the first argument to this
script is the path of the loaded image.
There is also an example script installed together with sxiv as
/usr/local/share/sxiv/exec/image-info.
EXTERNAL KEY HANDLER
Additional external keyboard commands can be defined using a handler
program located in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sxiv/exec/key-handler. The handler
is invoked by pressing Ctrl-x. The next key combo is then passed as
its first argument, followed by the paths of all marked images or the
path of the current image, if no image is marked. sxiv(1) will block
until the handler terminates. It then checks which images have been
modified and reloads them.
The key combo argument has the following form: "[C-][M-][S-]KEY", where
C/M/S indicate Ctrl/Meta(Alt)/Shift modifier states and KEY is the X
keysym as listed in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h without the "XK_" pre‐
fix.
There is also an example script installed together with sxiv as
/usr/local/share/sxiv/exec/key-handler.
THUMBNAIL CACHINGsxiv stores all thumbnails under $XDG_CACHE_HOME/sxiv/.
Use the command line option -c to remove all orphaned cache files.
Additionally, run the following command afterwards inside the cache
directory to remove empty subdirectories:
find . -depth -type d -empty ! -name '.' -exec rmdir {} \;
AUTHOR
Bert Muennich <ber.t at posteo.de>
CONTRIBUTORS
Bastien Dejean <nihilhill at gmail.com>
Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>
Fung SzeTat <sthorde at gmail.com>
HOMEPAGE
https://github.com/muennich/sxiv
SEE ALSOfeh(1), qiv(1)
sxiv-1.3.1 SXIV(1)
