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Full Screen – Image Presentation |
GQview allows for the image pane to be expanded to fill the entire screen, this is referred to as full screen.
Turning on full screen
Full screen can be activated in a number of ways:
From the menu bar - open the View menu and select Full screen.
From the keyboard - press the F key to toggle full screen.
From a context menu - right click an image pane, and select Full screen.
Turning off full screen
To return to the normal view:
From the keyboard - press the F or [Escape] key to stop full screen.
From a context menu - right click the image pane, and select Exit full screen.
From the menu bar - the menu bar may be visible when using multiple monitors, open the View menu and select Full screen.
Configuring full screen
Full screen behavior and location can be adjusted on the Advanced tab of the preferences dialog.
Size and location: This can be changed using Full screen size option, this can be used to select the monitor to use in a multiple monitor configuration.
Smooth image flip in full screen: This option delays the image change until the next image is entirely decoded into memory, the result is a smoother transition between images.
Disable screen saver in full screen: This option will execute xscreensaver-command --deactivate once per minute to avoid the screen saver from activating.
Navigation
The usual image navigation controls are available when in full screen, these are the commands available:
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Keyboard |
Mouse |
Description |
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F, V, Escape |
Context menu |
Turn off full screen. |
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Image Navigation |
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PageDown |
Left Click on image view |
Change to next image. |
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PageUp |
Middle Click on image view |
Change to previous image. |
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Home |
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Change to first image. |
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End |
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Change to last image. |
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Image panning (image has keyboard focus) |
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Arrow Keys |
Left Drag on image view |
Pan image. |
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[Shift] + Arrow Keys |
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Pan Image faster. |
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[Control] + Arrow Keys |
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Pan to respective edge of image. |
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SpaceBar |
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Change to next image. |
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Backspace |
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Change to previous image. |
(*) Default Mouse wheel functions, can be altered by changing the Mouse wheel scrolls image option.
Several other standard controls are also available through the keyboard and context menu:
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Difference from normal view |
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Copy, Move, Rename |
same (*) |
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Delete |
same (*) |
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External edit commands |
Full screen will turn off prior to activating the function. |
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Open image properties window |
same (*) |
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Image rotation, mirror, and flip |
same |
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Zoom controls |
same |
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I |
Toggle information overlay for full screen. |
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Slide show controls |
same |
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Quit with [Control] + Q |
same |
(*) Releases prior to 1.5.3 will turn off full screen prior to activating the function.
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GQview User Manual |