topaz

Simple Image Viewer for X

topaz is a simple image viewer for X. It is free software so that you can use it and modify it for your needs.

Please file a bug report if something does not work as documented or expected.

Contributions are welcome but there is no guarantee that they will be incorporated.

Features

• Basic image operations, e.g. zooming, panning, rotating
• Customizable key and mouse button mappings (in config.h)
• Thumbnail mode: grid of selectable previews of all images
• Ability to cache thumbnails for fast re-loading
• Basic support for multi-frame images
• Load all frames from GIF files and play GIF animations
• Display image information in status bar

Dependencies

topaz requires the following software to be installed:

• Imlib2
• X11
• Xft
• freetype2
• fontconfig
• giflib (optional, disabled with HAVE_GIFLIB=0)
• libexif (optional, disabled with HAVE_LIBEXIF=0)

Please make sure to install the corresponding development packages in case that you want to build topaz on a distribution with separate runtime and development packages (e.g. *-dev on Debian).

Building

topaz is built using the commands:

$ make
$ sudo make install

Please note, that the latter one requires root privileges. By default, topaz is installed using the prefix "/usr/local", so the full path of the executable will be "/usr/local/bin/topaz".

You can install topaz into a directory of your choice by changing the second command to:

# make PREFIX="/your/dir" install

The build-time specific settings of topaz can be found in the file config.h. Please check and change them, so that they fit your needs. If the file config.h does not already exist, then you have to create it with the following command:

$ make config.h

Usage

Please see the man page.

Download

You can browse the source code repository on GitHub or get a copy using git with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/Dream-Imperium/topaz