Full Screen

Geeqie allows for the image pane to be expanded to fill the entire screen, this is referred to as full screen.

8.2.1.  Turning on full screen

Full screen can be activated in a number of ways:

  • From the menu bar - open the View menu and select Full screen.
  • From the keyboard - press the F key to toggle full screen.
  • From a context menu - right click an image pane, and select Full screen.

8.2.2.  Turning off full screen

To return to the normal view:

  • From the keyboard - press the F or Esc key to stop full screen.
  • From a context menu - right click the image pane, and select Exit full screen.
  • From the menu bar - the menu bar may be visible when using multiple monitors, open the View menu and select Full screen.

8.2.3.  Configuring full screen

Full screen behavior and location can be adjusted on the Advanced tab? of the preferences dialog.

Size and location

This can be changed using Full screen size option, this can be used to select the monitor to use in a multiple monitor configuration.

Smooth image flip in full screen

This option delays the image change until the next image is entirely decoded into memory, the result is a smoother transition between images.

Disable screen saver in full screen

This option will execute xscreensaver-command --deactivate once per minute to avoid the screen saver from activating.

8.2.4.  Navigation

The usual image navigation controls are available when in full screen, these are the commands available:

Keyboard Mouse Description
F, V, Esc Context menu Turn off full screen.
Image Navigation
PageDown? Left Click on image view Mouse Wheel down [(*)] Change to next image.
PageUp? Middle Click on image view Mouse Wheel up [(*)] Change to previous image.
Home Change to first image.
End Change to last image.
Image panning (image has keyboard focus)
Arrows Left Drag on image view Shift + Mouse Wheel [(*)] Pan image.
Shift + Arrows Pan Image faster.
Ctrl + Arrows Pan to respective edge of image.
SpaceBar? Change to next image.
Backspace Change to previous image.

Several other standard controls are also available through the keyboard and context menu:

Function Difference from normal view
Copy, Move, Rename same
Delete same
External edit commands (Ctrl + 1 ... 0, context menu) Full screen will turn off prior to activating the function.
Open image properties window (Ctrl + P, context menu) same
Image rotation, mirror, and flip same
Zoom controls same
I Toggle information overlay for full screen: on with histogram, on without histogram, off.
K Switch between the different histogram modes: RGB, value, maximum value, red channel, green channel, blue channel.
J Toogle between linear and logarithmical histogram.
Slide show controls (S, P, context menu) same
Quit with Ctrl + Q same

(*) Note: Default Mouse wheel functions can be altered by changing the Mouse wheel scrolls image? option.