xzgv

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

xzgv
Developed by	Various
Latest release	0.9 / September 10, 2007
OS	Linux
Genre	Image viewer
License	GNU General Public License
Website	Webpage

xzgv is a simple, small software utility that can be used for viewing digital images or pictures of several formats, e.g., jpeg, gif, PNG, etc. xzgv is used on computers using a unix-type operating system and the X Window System. Because xzgv is a fast, lightweight image viewer that is compatible with a large number of image formats, the viewer is popular on older, slower, resource-challenged computer systems. xzgv is a standard utility in the Damn Small Linux distribution, for example.

Xzgv was originally based on the software toolkits GTK+ and Imlib 1.x. Most file formats are supported, and the thumbnails used are compatible with xv, zgv, and GIMP. xzgv differs from other viewers in that it uses one window for both the file selector and viewer. xzgv incorporates a thumbnail-based file selector and is designed to be functional without using a mouse. Images cannot be edited or changed using xzgv.

According to its man page, xzgv supports the following file formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG, PBM/PGM/PPM (collectively known as `PNM'), BMP, TGA (Targa), PCX, mrf, PRF, XBM (X bitmap files), XPM, TIFF, TIM (the Sony PlayStation), and XWD (X window dumps, as produced by the X Window utility xwd).

The source code for the utility is not under active development, but the code was updated in September 2007 to use the GTK+ 2 software toolkit[1]. Previously to this development, the most recent update by the original author, Russell Marks[2], was a security patch dated December 15, 2004.