GEEQIE(1)

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💖 GEEQIE(1) 💖 — bestie's guide to the GTK icon that views your pics

okay so this is the manual page for Geeqie, living in the User Commands section of your man pages (that's the manual name btw, we're not copying the whole header line, we're folding it in like a cute little intro 🎀).

✨ NAME ✨

Geeqie — a GTK based multiformat image viewer. that's the whole vibe. it views images. many formats. slay.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Geeqie is an interactive GTK based image viewer that supports multiple image formats, zooming, panning, thumbnails and sorting images into collections. literally all the good stuff, no cap.

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💅 Usage:

geeqie [OPTION…] [path…]

Geeqie is an image viewer.

Version: Geeqie 3.4

🫶 Help Options:

  • -h, --help — Show help options
  • --help-all — Show all help options
  • --help-gapplication — Show GApplication options

🔥 Application Options:

  • --action=<ACTION> — execute keyboard action (https://www.geeqie.org/help/GuideReferenceRemoteKeyboardActions.html)
  • --action-list — list available keyboard actions (some are redundant)
  • -b, --back — previous image
  • --cache-metadata — clean the metadata cache
  • --cache-render=<folder> — render thumbnails
  • --cache-render-recurse=<folder> — render thumbnails recursively
  • --cache-render-shared=<folder> — render thumbnails (see Help)
  • --cache-render-shared-recurse=<folder> — render thumbnails recursively (see Help)
  • --cache-shared=clean|clear — clear or clean shared thumbnail cache
  • --cache-thumbs=clear|clean — clear or clean thumbnail cache
  • --close-window — close window
  • --color-scheme=system|light|dark — override the interface color scheme for this session
  • --config-load=<FILE> — load configuration from FILE
  • -d, --delay=<[H:][M:][N][.M]> — set slide show delay to Hrs Mins N.M seconds,
  • --dupes=<FOLDER> — find duplicates in folder
  • --dupes-export — export duplicates search result
  • --dupes-export-json — export duplicate groups as JSON
  • --dupes-recurse=<FOLDER> — find duplicates in folder recursively
  • --file=<FILE>|<URL> — open FILE or URL bring Geeqie window to the top
  • --File=<FILE>|<URL> — open FILE or URL do not bring Geeqie window to the top
  • --file-extensions — list known file extensions
  • --first — first image
  • -f, --fullscreen — start / toggle in fullscreen mode
  • --geometry=<W>x<H>[+<XOFF>+<YOFF>] — set main window location and geometry
  • --get-collection=<COLLECTION> — get collection content
  • --get-collection-list — get collection list
  • --get-destination=<FILE> — get destination path of FILE (https://www.geeqie.org/help/GuidePluginsConfig.html)
  • --get-file-info — get file info
  • --get-filelist=[<FOLDER>] — get list of files and class
  • --get-filelist-recurse=[<FOLDER>] — get list of files and class recursive
  • --get-rectangle — get rectangle coordinates
  • --get-render-intent — get render intent
  • --get-selection — get list of selected files
  • --get-sidecars=<FILE> — get list of sidecars of FILE
  • --get-window-list — get list of windows
  • --id=<ID> — window id for following commands
  • --last — last image
  • -o, --log-file=<file> — save log data to file
  • --lua=<FILE>,<lua script> — run lua script on FILE
  • --new-window — new window
  • -n, --next — next image
  • --pixel-info — print pixel info of mouse pointer on current image
  • --print0 — terminate returned data with null character instead of newline
  • -q, --quit — quit
  • --raise — bring the Geeqie window to the top
  • --selection-add=[<FILE>] — adds the current file (or the specified file) to the current selection
  • --selection-clear — clears the current selection
  • --selection-remove=[<FILE>] — removes the current file (or the specified file) from the current selection
  • -w, --show-log-window — show log window
  • --slideshow-recurse=<FOLDER> — start recursive slide show in FOLDER
  • -s, --slideshow — toggle slide show
  • --tell — print filename [and Collection] of current image
  • -t, --tools — toggle tools
  • -v, --version — print version info
  • --view=<FILE> — open FILE in new window

okay now the ✨lore✨ part, the way these command line args actually get interpreted — read this, it's giving "important":

All other command line parameters are used as plain files if they exist, or a URL or a folder. The name of a collection, with or without either path or extension (.gqv) may be used.

If more than one folder is on the command line, only the last will be used. 😭 (yes, only the last. mourn the rest.)

If more than one file is on the command line:

If they are in the same folder, that folder will be opened and those files will be selected. If they are not in the same folder, a new Collection containing those files will be opened.

To run Geeqie as a new instance, use:

GQ_NEW_INSTANCE=y[es] geeqie

Normally a single set of configuration files is used for all instances. However, the environment variables XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME can be used to modify this behavior on an individual basis, e.g.

XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/tmp/a XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp/b GQ_NEW_INSTANCE=y geeqie

To run or stop Geeqie in cache maintenance (non-GUI) mode use:

GQ_CACHE_MAINTENANCE=y[es] geeqie --help
⚠️ heads up bestie: note that bash command line completion does not work in this mode. not a drill 💀

User manual: https://www.geeqie.org/help/GuideIndex.html

: https://www.geeqie.org/help-pdf/help.pdf

🦋 BUGS 🦋

Please send bug reports and feedback to https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues — the devs genuinely want the tea ☕

Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by John Ellis. Copyright (C) 2004-2026 by The Geeqie Team. Use this software at your own risk! This software released under the GNU General Public License. Please read the COPYING file for more information.

🫶 fr fr: "use this software at your own risk" is not a vibe check, it's a real warning, so read that COPYING file bestie.

and that's the whole page ✨ this was Geeqie 3.4, GTK4 build, dated November 2026, page name GEEQIE(1) — mwah, go look at some pictures 💜🎀🌸

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