Alternatives to Xviewer
Linux Mint's simple image viewer, built on gdk-pixbuf and designed to work across desktops. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Xviewer
Linux Mint's simple image viewer, built on gdk-pixbuf and designed to work across desktops.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Xviewer.
Eye of GNOME
The classic GNOME image viewer, with a straightforward interface and support for plugins.
Eye of GNOME is the classic GNOME viewer that Xviewer's simple approach resembles, and it adds plugin support for extra features while staying Linux only.
Loupe
GNOME's default image viewer, with metadata display and quick crop, rotate and flip edits.
Loupe is GNOME's modern default viewer, showing image metadata alongside the picture and adding quick crop, rotate and flip edits, though it fits GNOME best.
Ristretto
A simple, fast image viewer developed as part of the Xfce desktop environment for Linux.
Ristretto is a lightweight viewer from the Xfce project, similarly plain with no editing or library features, and integrates with the Xfce desktop rather than Mint.
Gwenview
KDE's image viewer for browsing collections of images, with simple editing and annotation tools.
Gwenview is KDE's viewer, adding basic edits such as crop, resize and red-eye reduction plus annotation tools, and works best within KDE Plasma.
LXImage-Qt
A lightweight image viewer and screenshot tool from the LXQt desktop project.
LXImage-Qt is a lightweight Qt viewer from LXQt that adds an Exif panel, thumbnail bar, annotations, screenshots and multipage TIFF support.
gThumb
An open-source image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop on Linux.
gThumb is a GNOME viewer and browser that adds photo sorting on local folders, making it a fuller tool than Xviewer while remaining Linux only.
nomacs
A fast image viewer that opens RAW and PSD files and can show the same picture in two synchronised windows.
nomacs runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, opens RAW and PSD files and adds synchronised windows and batch processing, but exposes many panels at once.
ImageGlass
A fast image viewer that opens the formats Windows still argues about: WebP, JXL, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, HDR and raw.
ImageGlass supports over ninety formats including HEIC, AVIF and raw on Windows, macOS and Linux, though some features need the paid Pro edition.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Geeqie
Browse and organize images with a Unix desktop viewer.
Shotwell
A photo manager for the GNOME desktop that imports, organises and makes simple edits to photos.
Koko
A KDE image gallery app for browsing photo albums on Linux desktops and mobile devices.
qimgv
A fast, configurable image viewer with basic cropping and resizing and optional video playback.
