SXIV(1) General Commands Manual SXIV(1) NAME sxiv - Simple X Image Viewer SYNOPSIS sxiv [-abcfhiopqrtvZ] [-A FRAMERATE] [-e WID] [-G GAMMA] [-g GEOMETRY] [-N NAME] [-n NUM] [-S DELAY] [-s MODE] [-z ZOOM] FILE... DESCRIPTION sxiv is a simple image viewer for X. It has two modes of operation: image and thumbnail mode. The default is image mode, in which only the current image is shown. In thumbnail mode a grid of small previews is displayed, making it easy to choose an im‐ age to open. Please note, that the fullscreen mode requires an EWMH/NetWM compliant window manager. OPTIONS -A FRAMERATE Play animations with a constant frame rate set to FRAMERATE. -a Play animations of multi-frame images. -b Do not show info bar on bottom of window. -c Remove all orphaned cache files from the thumbnail cache direc‐ tory and exit. -e WID Embed sxiv's window into window whose ID is WID. -f Start in fullscreen mode. -G GAMMA Set image gamma to GAMMA (-32..32). -g GEOMETRY Set window position and size. See section GEOMETRY SPECIFICA‐ TIONS of X(7) for more information on GEOMETRY argument. -N NAME Set the resource name of sxiv's X window to NAME. -n NUM Start at picture number NUM. -h Print brief usage information to standard output and exit. -i Read names of files to open from standard input. Also done if FILE is `-'. -o Write list of all marked files to standard output when quitting. In combination with -i sxiv can be used as a visual filter/pipe. -p Enable private mode, in which sxiv does not write any cache or temporary files. -q Be quiet, disable warnings to standard error stream. -r Search the given directories recursively for images to view. -S DELAY Start in slideshow mode. Set the delay between images to DELAY seconds. DELAY may be a floating point number. -s MODE Set scale mode according to MODE character. Supported modes are: [d]own, [f]it, [w]idth, [h]eight. -t Start in thumbnail mode. -v Print version information to standard output and exit. -Z The same as `-z 100'. -z ZOOM Set zoom level to ZOOM percent. KEYBOARD COMMANDS General The following keyboard commands are available in both image and thumb‐ nail mode: 0-9 Prefix the next command with a number (denoted via count). q Quit sxiv. Return Switch to thumbnail mode / open selected image in image mode. f Toggle fullscreen mode. b Toggle visibility of info bar on bottom of window. Ctrl-x Send the next key to the external key-handler. See section EX‐ TERNAL KEY HANDLER for more information. g Go to the first image. G Go to the last image, or image number count. r Reload image. D Remove current image from file list and go to next image. Ctrl-h, Ctrl-Left Scroll left one screen width. Ctrl-j, Ctrl-Down Scroll down one screen height. Ctrl-k, Ctrl-Up Scroll up one screen height. Ctrl-l, Ctrl-Right Scroll right one screen width. + Zoom in. - Zoom out. m Mark/unmark the current image. M Reverse all image marks. Ctrl-M Repeat last mark action on all images from the last marked/un‐ marked up to the current one. Ctrl-m Remove all image marks. N Go count marked images forward. P Go count marked images backward. { Decrease gamma correction by count steps. } Increase gamma correction by count steps. Ctrl-g Reset gamma correction. Thumbnail mode The following keyboard commands are only available in thumbnail mode: h, Left Move selection left count times. j, Down Move selection down count times. k, Up Move selection up count times. l, Right Move selection right count times. R Reload all thumbnails. Image mode The following keyboard commands are only available in image mode: Navigate image list: n, Space Go count images forward. p, Backspace Go count images backward. [ Go count * 10 images backward. ] Go count * 10 images forward. Handle multi-frame images: Ctrl-n Go count frames of a multi-frame image forward. Ctrl-p Go count frames of a multi-frame image backward. Ctrl-Space Play/stop animations of multi-frame images. Panning: h, Left Scroll image 1/5 of window width or count pixel left. j, Down Scroll image 1/5 of window height or count pixel down. k, Up Scroll image 1/5 of window height or count pixel up. l, Right Scroll image 1/5 of window width or count pixel right. H Scroll to left image edge. J Scroll to bottom image edge. K Scroll to top image edge. L Scroll to right image edge. Zooming: = Set zoom level to 100%, or count%. w Set zoom level to 100%, but fit large images into window. W Fit image to window. e Fit image to window width. E Fit image to window height. Rotation: < Rotate image counter-clockwise by 90 degrees. > Rotate image clockwise by 90 degrees. ? Rotate image by 180 degrees. Flipping: | Flip image horizontally. _ Flip image vertically. Miscellaneous: a Toggle anti-aliasing. A Toggle visibility of alpha-channel, i.e. image transparency. s Toggle slideshow mode and/or set the delay between images to count seconds. MOUSE COMMANDS The following mouse mappings are available in image mode: General: Button3 Switch to thumbnail mode. Navigate image list: Button1 Go to the next image if the mouse cursor is in the right part of the window or to the previous image if it is in the left part. Panning: Button2 Pan the image according to the mouse cursor position in the win‐ dow while keeping this button pressed down. Zooming: ScrollUp Zoom in. ScrollDown Zoom out. STATUS BAR The information displayed on the left side of the status bar can be re‐ placed with the output of a user-provided script, which is called by sxiv whenever an image gets loaded. The path of this script is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sxiv/exec/image-info and the arguments given to it are: 1) path to image file, 2) image width, 3) image height. There is also an example script installed together with sxiv as /usr/share/sxiv/exec/image-info. EXTERNAL KEY HANDLER Additional external keyboard commands can be defined using a handler program located in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sxiv/exec/key-handler. The handler is invoked by pressing Ctrl-x. The next key combo is passed as its first argument. Passed via stdin are the images to act upon, one path per line: all marked images, if in thumbnail mode and at least one im‐ age has been marked, otherwise the current image. sxiv(1) will block until the handler terminates. It then checks which images have been modified and reloads them. The key combo argument has the following form: "[C-][M-][S-]KEY", where C/M/S indicate Ctrl/Meta(Alt)/Shift modifier states and KEY is the X keysym as listed in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h without the "XK_" pre‐ fix. There is also an example script installed together with sxiv as /usr/share/sxiv/exec/key-handler. THUMBNAIL CACHING sxiv stores all thumbnails under $XDG_CACHE_HOME/sxiv/. Use the command line option -c to remove all orphaned cache files. Ad‐ ditionally, run the following command afterwards inside the cache di‐ rectory to remove empty subdirectories: find . -depth -type d -empty ! -name '.' -exec rmdir {} \; AUTHOR Bert Muennich CONTRIBUTORS Bastien Dejean Dave Reisner Fung SzeTat Max Voit HOMEPAGE https://github.com/muennich/sxiv SEE ALSO feh(1), qiv(1) sxiv-25 SXIV(1)