Uhg, what is the no-nonsense Linux image viewer these days? Everything I try has one or more of:

- Buttons which delete or modify the file you're looking at. WTF, no. I want to view images, not worry I'm going to misclick and perform some destructive action.

- Its own ugly UI chrome replacing rhe title bar.

- Screen space wasted on buttons, thumbnails, etc.

OK, back to where I started: xfce's Ristretto. The only problems with it were the delete button and some wasted screenspace, but I realized the view menu has a toggle to turn of fthe toolbar (with the delete button) entirely, and lets you reposition thumbnails.

As usual, the no-nonsense desktop apps come from xfce.

The unwanted "delete" function is still available on menu and keyboard shortcut.

I think I actually have a good solution for this though:

Running whatever image viewer I want to use under a variant of my usand.sh that uses Linux namespaces to make all but a limited part of the filesystem read-only. Currently this isn't possible, as it blocks access to the X server unix socket from the host and to the network, but I've been planning to extend it to be more flexible anyway.

@dalias swayimg is very bare bones but it does display images.
@dalias I managed to disable the sidebar in Gwenview, but I can't seem to find an option to disable the Thumbnail Bar ​
imv: Image viewer for X11/Wayland

@dalias geeqie does most of this
@dalias does `display` (ImageMagick) work?
@dalias feh works for my purposes.

@dalias xloadimage?

I also use links2 -g as image viewer, and if I need to zoom, KDE’s Okular and/or Firefox :~

@dalias feh or eog if you've got gtk stuff

@astraleureka @dalias
"feh"
"eog"
"imv"
"tiv"
"nsxiv"

They have played us for absolute fools

@ska @astraleureka @dalias xloadimage is there to save your day
@dalias i use `imv` and it's very straight forward and minimal
@dalias These days, I'm back to viewing images with xli, invoked through a terminal window. Annoyingly, it's missing from many distro's package repos.
@0x0ddc0ffee I always liked xli and xloadimage way back, and feh has been my go-to command line tool for a while. But I want something I can easily invoke from a file manager and navigate large volumes of images, and I prefer having both keyboard and mouse navigation options so I can use whatever is handy, and possibly for future mobile/touch use.
@dalias I like qView.
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