vimiv(1)

NAME

vimiv - an image viewer with vim-like keybindings

SYNOPSIS

vimiv [-bBfFhlLrRsSv] [--start-from-desktop] [--slideshow] [--slideshow-delay SLIDESHOW-DELAY] [-g, --geometry GEOMETRY] [--temp-basedir] [--config FILE] [--debug] [FILE] ...

DESCRIPTION

Vimiv is an image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 using the Gtk3 toolkit. Some of the features are:

The complete documentation is not included in this manpage but is available at:

⟨http://karlch.github.io/vimiv/documentation/⟩

OPTIONS

-b, --bar

display the statusbar

-f, --fullscreen

start in fullscreen

-h, --help

display a simple help text

-l, --library

display the library

-r, --recursive

search the directory recursively for images

-s, --shuffle

shuffle the filelist

-v, --version

show version information and exit

--start-from-desktop

start using the desktop_start_dir as path

--slideshow

start in slideshow mode

--slideshow-delay SLIDESHOW_DELAY

set the slideshow delay

-g, --geometry GEOMETRY

set the starting geometry

--temp-basedir

use a temporary basedir

--config FILE

use FILE as local configuration file instead of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vimiv/vimivrc and ~/.vimiv/vimivrc.

--debug

run in debug mode

All capitals negate the setting, so e.g. -B means do not display the statusbar. For the long version prepend no-, e.g. --no-bar.

BUGS

Probably. Please contact me under <karlch at protonmail dot com> or, even better, open an issue on the github homepage.

SEE ALSO

vimivrc(5)

THANKS TO

James Campos, author of Pim ⟨https://github.com/Narrat/Pim⟩ upon which vimiv is built.

Bert Muennich, author of sxiv ⟨https://github.com/muennich/sxiv⟩ which inspired many of the features of vimiv.

Anyone who has contributed or reported bugs.

RESOURCES

Website ⟨https://karlch.github.io/vimiv/⟩

Github ⟨https://github.com/karlch/vimiv/⟩