What is Xviewer?
Xviewer is a free and open source image viewer and basic image editing application for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems that use the X Window System. It is designed to be simple and lightweight while still providing useful image viewing and manipulation capabilities.
Some of the key features of Xviewer include:
- Support for all common image formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, XPM, PCX, TIFF, TGA, and more
- Fast zoom and pan for high resolution images
- Basic image editing tools such as crop, rotate, flip, red-eye removal, and color adjustments
- Slideshow mode
- Print preview
- Metadata viewer
- Plugin architecture for adding new file formats and effects
Xviewer aims to strike a balance between being a lightweight image viewer for quick everyday viewing while also providing some useful editing tools to fix common issues without needing to launch a full featured editor like GIMP. It has a simple and straightforward user interface that gets out of the way to let users focus on their images.
Xviewer runs on Linux and other UNIX-like systems that support GTK 3 and the X Window System such as various Linux distributions and BSD variants. There is an optional macOS port available as well. It's released under the GNU General Public License.
FastStone Image Viewer, IrfanView, ACDSee Photo Studio, XnView, ImageGlass, XnView MP, Preview, Gwenview, QuickLook, nomacs, Quick Look Fix, eye of MATE, Gloobus Preview, JPEGView are some alternatives to Xviewer.