This section describes the functions of each item on the menu bar in the Geeqie main window.
Opens a new main window, with the initial path set to the current folder.
Opens a new collection window, the new collection will be empty.
Displays a dialog to open a collection stored on disk, the selected collection will then appear in a new window.
This menu item lists the recently active collections, selecting an item from the list will open that collection in a new window. The most recent item will appear at the top of the list. Maximum number of entries can be modified through Open recent list maximum size? option.
Opens a new Search window.
Opens a new Find Duplicates window.
Opens a print dialog.
Creates a new folder in the current path.
Opens a dialog to select a destination to copy the currently selected files.
Opens a dialog to select a destination to move currently selected files.
Renames the current file selection.
Deletes the current file selection.
Creates a symbolic link. This is implemented via external editor?.
Closes the window containing the menu, if the window is the last main window Geeqie will quit.
Quits the Geeqie application, if collections or image metadata have been changed but not saved, the user will be prompted for confirmation.
Goes tothe first image.
Goes to the previous image.
Goes to the next image.
Goes to the last image. Back Goes to the previous folder. Home Goes to home folder.
Selects all files in the current list
Deselects all files
Inverts current selection
Copy selected item path to clipboard.
Displays marks in the file list
Opens submenu for manipulating mark n
Set or unset mark n on selected files
Set mark n on selected files
Unset mark n on selected files
Selects all files having mark n set
Adds files having mark n set to selection
Intersects current selection and mark n
Removes files having mark n set from current selection
Shows only the images that have mark n set.
This submenu contains external editors that were found on the system. See Editors section? for details.
Adjust image orientation
Rotates the current image clockwise 90 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.
Rotates the current image counterclockwise 90 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.
Rotates the current image 180 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.
Swaps the left and right sides of the image so that the result is similar to that of looking at the image in a mirror, does not modify the file on disk.
Swaps the top and bottom sides of the image, does not modify the file on disk.
Removes all effects applied through the Adjust menu, reverting image to its original state. Orientation / Apply the orientation to image content The commands above modifies image metadata only. This commands actually transforms image pixels. See Editors section? for details.
Saves queued metadata changes. Autosave can be configured too.
This submenu contains configuration and maintenance commands
Opens the Preferences Dialog for changing of global preferences.
Opens the Editors Dialog? for changing of global preferences.
Opens the Window Preferences Dialog? for changing of options that can differ for each window.
Opens a dialog with utilities to manage cached thumbnails and keywords data.
Renders the current image to the root window (desktop). The resulting image will be tiled to fit the root window if zoom is not set to fit to window; when zoom is set to fit to window, the image will be scaled to fill the root window.
Opens selected image in its own window
Opens current folder in Pan view window
Increases the zoom by one increment, resulting in a larger image.
Decreases the zoom by one increment, resulting in a smaller image.
Automatically adjusts the zoom so that the image will fit within the display pane. The effect on images with an original size smaller than the display pane can be changed with the Allow enlargement of image for zoom to fit option located on the Image tab of the preferences dialog.
Adjusts the zoom so image height fit within the display pane.
Adjusts the zoom so image width fit within the display pane.
Set zoom to the n:m value. 1:1 is the original size of the image. When n is greater than m, zoom in occurs else zoom out occurs.
Actions in this menu are identical to those in Zoom menu, but apply to all images displayed in splitted view.
Splits main image view in two horizontal panes.
Splits main image view in two vertical panes.
Splits main image view in four panes.
Reverts to normal view mode (one image).
Toggles the display of image thumbnails in the file list, this item is not available when the file list is in icon view mode. A check appears next to this item when thumbnails are enabled.
Changes the file list to display files in list format.
Changes the file list to display files as icons.
Set the folder view mode to list.
Set the folder view mode to tree.
Displays Image Overlay information box (OSD), use twice to add histogram to it.
Switches channels displayed in the histogram (red, green, blue, RGB, value, maximum value).
Toggles between linear and logarithmical histogram.
Toggles the full screen window display.
Toggles the location of the menu bar, tool bar, status bar, and file lists between the main window and a second window. A check appears next to this item when the location is the second window.
Toggles visibility of the menu bar, tool bar, status bar, and file lists.
Toggles visibility of the tool bar. A check appears next to this item when the tool bar is not visible.
Toggles display of the Keywords sidebar.
Toggles display of the EXIF sidebar.
Toggles display of the Sort Manager sidebar.
Begins or ends a slide show, the slide show status is displayed in the status bar.
Pauses a slide show, the slide show status is displayed in the status bar.
Updates the contents of the folder and file lists to match what is currently on disk, the current image will also be reread from disk.
Opens the Geeqie user manual in a new browser window.
Displays a window listing the default keyboard shortcuts.
Displays a window containing the release notes for the version of Geeqie in use.
Opens a window containing the Geeqie version, credits, website, and email contact information.
Opens the log window, mostly used for debugging purposes.
Menus can be permanently displayed by selecting the dotted line item at the top of each menu category. A tear off menu will behave the same as an ordinary window. To close a tear off menu, select the dotted line item at the top of the menu.
The keyboard sequence associated to each menu entry is listed within the main window menu bar. For reference, the complete list of default keyboard shortcuts can be found in section Keyboard Shortcuts.
The keyboard shortcuts associated with the menu bar items can be changed by editing the accels file located in the Geeqie configuration folder while the Geeqie application is not running:
($HOME)/.geeqie/accels
To change a menu item, first find the line corresponding to the menu item to change. For example the File menu Quit line originally looks like this:
; (gtk_accel_path "<main>/File/Quit" "<Control>q")
To change this menu's keyboard shortcut, first remove the leading semicolon (;), removing the semicolon will tell Geeqie that this menu item has been customized. Then change the keyboard shortcut defined by the text in quotes at the end of the line, be sure to only change the text within the quotes; in this case the text “<control>q”. For example changing the shortcut associated with Quit to the Q key will result in this line:
(gtk_accel_path "<main>/File/Quit" "q")
Please note the removed semicolon and the change of “<control>q” to “q”, be careful not to change any of the other text on the line or Geeqie may ignore the customization. The keyboard modifiers and their respective text are listed below:
| <tablestyle="width:60%"> Key | Text to use in accels file |
| <tablestyle="width:60%"> Shift | <shift> |
| Ctrl | <control> |
| Alt | <alt> |
Modifiers can be combined, for example in the exit line above, the text would be “<control><shift>q” to set the exit shortcut to Ctrl + Shift + Q.