Is there an image viewer which allows the user to scroll the zoomed image using the mouse wheel?
It's a crucial functionality, which I'm missing in EOG, gThumb etc…
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Is there an image viewer which allows the user to scroll the zoomed image using the mouse wheel?
It's a crucial functionality, which I'm missing in EOG, gThumb etc…
Best Answer
Unfortunately, it seems difficult to configure most image viewing software like
gthumb
,shotwell
, oreog
to do this. There doesn't seem to be any hidden options available indconf-editor
orgsettings
after investigation.There are two possibilities, however:
The first is
Pinta
, which is available in the repositories and supports scrolling a zoomed image well. It supports using the mouse scroll wheel to scroll vertically, and you can also click to scroll horizontally.The second is to use
firefox
in conjunction with the image zoom 0.4.6 addon, and then you can zoom into the picture and indeed scroll it. Firefox supports most image formats, and you can just right click and open an image in Firefox or open it like this:firefox /home/mike/Pictures/IMG_1207.JPG
which will then be displayed in the browser at the local address of
file:///home/mike/Pictures/IMG_1207.JPG
Firefox
can be used like a file manager for local or network files and most images formats likejpg
,tif
,gif
,png
can be opened.As you can see in the screenshot below, there are settings for the scroll zoom when you go to firefox > addons > image zoom > preferences. Scrolling using both the middle mouse wheel or the two fingers mode on the touchpad works as well.
As noted in the description for the addon, you can use it to:
Just open the image in
firefox
, zoom it up and then you are able to scroll it; it is about the best way of achieving what you want at the minute and I use it regularly.