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Figure 10-5. The Open With... Dialog Box

10.1.3. Using GQview

GQview is a powerful image viewer for GNOME desktop users that supports several image ﬁle for-

mats, including:

• JPG/JPEG

• GIF

• PGM

• XPM

• PNG

• PCX

• TIF/TIFF

• PPM

• BMP

GQview is useful for viewing individual image ﬁles as well as browsing collections of ﬁles in folders.

It supports zoom in and zoom out functions, as well as thumbnail views of all image ﬁles within

a directory. It also supports several advanced options not found in the simple image viewers listed

above.

GQview can be started from the GNOME and KDE panels. Choose Main Menu => Programs =>

Graphics => GQview to start the application in GNOME. For KDE users, choose Start Application

=> Programs => Graphics => GQview. If you are at a shell or terminal prompt, start the application

by typing gqview. Upon start-up, GQview will browse your user home directory by default. If you

have any images in this directory, the gallery panel will automatically generate thumbnails for you to

highlight and view in the main display area.