According to this issue, it looks like there are no plans, understandably, for making a version/fork of nsxiv but with native Wayland support.
Any recommendations for a simple image viewer in Hyprland?
I don’t know how it compares to nsxiv, but imv supports Wayland.
Can you open animated gifs in imv? I just get a black screen, but the home page says animated gifs are supported.
At least on xorg the gifs I had worked.
I recently coded up a dirt simple image viewer. Like it is stupidly simple.
You can give it a go https://github.com/Dr-42/imeye
I tried
imvand hated it. I just usefeh(through XWayland) ormpvnow.mpv as an image viewer? Is that… possible?
Just tried it and, yes. Jpg, Png, and Webp open as a half-second video. Actually kinda neat, I adjusted gamma, saturation, and saved a copy with 3 button presses. Well, 4 if you count pause…
Why pause? Does it start a slideshow in the current directory?
The gnome image viewer is Wayland native
Sounds interesting, but the requirements say it needs gnome-desktop. I’m using Hyprland on NixOS, so it doesn’t sound like this will work for my setup unfortunately. Thank you for the suggestion. Hopefully this helps others.
Currently, gnome has moved away from eye of Gnome to Image Viewer/Loupe. The website doesn’t have the dependencies though I don’t think you should need the gnome-desktop package. Perhaps you can look into it. Just be aware that the app is pretty barebones for now.
Edit - Alternatively, you could look into gwenview which is normally shipped in kde. That will have the advantage of shipping with a lot more editing options and since it is a more mature(I think is the right word) project, I expect it to have better support for esoteric file formats.
Gwenview looks a little too full featured, but the Gnome Image Viewer (Loupe) works well. No dependencies needed in Nix, and the arrow keys let you flip between different images that are in the same folder. All of the on-screen functionality works (copy, move to trash, zoom in/out, toggle full-screen, etc.), and keyboard shortcuts and gestures work great. The only bug I have to work out is that it doesn’t respect the gtk theme I have configured (GTK 2, 3, and 4). Otherwise, seems like a good option.
The only bug I have to work out is that it doesn’t respect the gtk theme I have configured (GTK 2, 3, and 4). Otherwise, seems like a good option.
Maybe this is because loupe uses libadwaita and not standard gtk4. Libadwaita does not follow the gtk theme.
Glad I could help though
Ahh that’s good to know. I had no idea about libadwaita. Thank you!
Another okay option I just stumbled on is Viewnior. The only thing it lacks is webp file support.
