App Of The Week: ViewNior – Lightweight Image Viewer

By , Published October 1, 2009

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ViewNior is a lightweight image viewer that was designed with “simple and fast” as it’s mantra – and boy does it live up to it!

I’m kicking off my new 'App Of The Week' series with it because it's just so wonderfully simple and yet a bit of a hidden gem! It can do everything the current Ubuntu default image viewer can but faster!

Features: -

  • Speed – ViewNior launches blazingly fast when viewing an image.
  • Editing – You can crop images from within ViewNior.
  • Easy-to-use – It’s layout is unobtrusive allowing easy use.
  • Set the image as your wallpaper from within ViewNior.
  • Displays animated images

Download

The current version of ViewNior is 0.7. You can get it from the offical PPA: -

  • https://launchpad.net/~xsisqox/+archive/ppa

Using 

Setting it as your default image viewer is a snap. Right clickany image and go to preferences. From there choose the ‘Opens With’ tab and select ViewNior.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  1. App Updates: ViewNior Gets Cropping Tool
  2. The Best Image Viewers For Ubuntu
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  • LK

    Despite all good features, it’s not my default yet on Jaunty since it doesn’t support ESC key to close an open window, which works well with the EOG.

  • Anonymous

    i use it only to quickly resize pictures… hope they will add some features later…
    made a review on my blog : http://binuxlubuntu.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/redecouper-des-images-rapidement/

    cheers !

  • Ben

    You forgot to mention that it can display animated images as animations. That was my one major gripe with EOG, and ViewNoir has it solved.

  • johnson

    “Setting it as your default image viewer is a snap. Right click any image and go to preferences. From there choose the ‘Opens With’ tab and select ViewNior.

    … Then do it once more for .png, .jpeg, .jpg, .gif, .tiff, and every other image file you may encounter ! It’s the ubuntu way !