IrfanView Linux alternative?

Question

I'm looking for some Linux alternative to IrfanView (image viewer). At best, it should have all its features, the same controls (both mouse and kbd) or fully adjustable, and be as quick.

In particular (this list covers 95 % of my use cases):

Support for many formats, for both input and output
Automatic navigation through the directory with Space and Backspace
Thumbnails (T)
Batch processing (B)
Rotating (R, L)
Zoom with Ctrl + mouse wheel or + / -
Fullscreen (Enter)
Image movement with PgUp and PgDn, Home. End
Select a rectagle with a mouse -> Ctrl + Y to crop -> Ctrl + S to save as a PNG file
Basic image editation - copy, cut, paste, color filters, text input, basic shapes
Immediate startup
No need to play video or audio

Etc... IrfanView is something like iPhone amongst image viewers, there's nothing to change ;-)

So - what is as close as possible?

Edit: No virtualization please - IrfanView crashes under Wine in my environment; running virtualized Windows is even further away from being quick; perhaps it could be Java, but native is native.

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 13:48

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The IrfanView web site suggests that you can use IrfanView on Linux under WINE.

IrfanView is something like iPhone amongst image viewers, there's nothing to change.

Try it! You'll never find an exact, drop-in replacement, so why not use the real thing?

You could also run IrfanView in virtualized instance of Windows on your Linux host.

edited Jun 12 '20 at 13:48

Community

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answered Dec 01 '09 at 20:54

eleven81

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score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 01 '11 at 20:15

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ImageMagick has an interactive mode, but I've never liked it... But it definitely will load almost every image format out there.

gThumb is very slick, but it's a GNOME tool so it's not littered with options.

Eye of GNOME is just a dumb viewer, but it does most of the navigation stuff, and I think there's a "click to edit" option.

edited Jul 01 '11 at 20:15

Peter Mortensen

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answered Dec 01 '09 at 21:10

Broam

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 24 '12 at 18:31

The nearest alternative of IView for linux is XnViewMP --- not open but powerful. Still the best alternative on the market. Easy download and install, just unpack the tar.gz to the default subfolder in your user folder and run xnview.sh. You must only ensure that you have all the compatilibity libraries needed. I read that some people had an installation bug because of no libpng15-compat packages which includes libpng12.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 29 '14 at 19:21

Although I have been doing some research of this problem too, I have not found anything as good as Irfan. That is still an app I envy to the Windows users.

Now I use geeqie, eog (eye of gnome) or gthumb, it depends on the actual Desktop Environment. And I do all editting in GIMP. It is not ideal, but it is quite good.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 01 '09 at 20:43

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xnview has a beta MP verison. YMMV

I've used this on Windows, but prefer IrFanView

answered Dec 01 '09 at 20:43

gbn

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 02 '09 at 06:59

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I've never used IrfanView, but it sounds like Gwenview could satisfy you.

answered Dec 02 '09 at 06:59

supercheetah

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 28 '11 at 12:16

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It isn't updated much lately and the keyboard shortcuts are different, but feh is an incredibly fast image viewer.

answered Jun 28 '11 at 12:16

CarlF

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 02 '09 at 20:58

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I believe that GTK+ and KDE apps have fully configurable key bindings for anything in their menus, so you shouldn't get too hung up on that if you find something with the right functionality.

answered Dec 02 '09 at 20:58

Ken Bloom

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