![]() ![]() Because there is no toolbar, you're going to do everything by right-clicking. Once an image is open, you can use your mouse scroll to zoom in or out. Once an image is opened, you can rename, delete, go to the next or previous image, and more.Īdditional options in subcategories include View, Tools, and Help. You can do much more here than you might expect, including rotate right or left, mirror, flip, full screen, and start a slideshow. We've seen many simplified image viewers here on MajorGeeks, and people love them. QView fits the bill not only for viewing images but for all of the available options we mentioned above, all delivered in an undistracted interface that allows you to focus on viewing your photos.In September 2010, Google announced the WebP image format with a vision and a solid replacement for JPEG, PNG and GIF file formats. As you can see, it’s one single format that provides all the features of the legacy compression algorithm. At its core, WebP supports lossy, lossless animation and transparency. In addition, WebP is based on block prediction technology and its recommended image format for the web. Due to its significant low file size and better quality, it became the modern standard for serving website images. Today, almost all the major web browsers support WebP – which means you can view the images in popular browsers such as Chromium, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, Safari and Edge.īut creating a WebP image from existing JPG and PNG files requires the WebP library developed by Google. Moreover, the Linux distribution’s file managers are not yet capable of displaying them out of the box.įor a seamless integration and experience with WebP – many small components must work together. The operating system requires the core library for WebP. In addition, the file manager and image viewers need to recognise the *.webp file type and read them.Īll of these result in a consistent experience for users. Since it is still a new standard and adoption is in progress, you need to perform some extra steps in Linux to get it working. ![]() On the other hand, Windows 10 and 11 currently support WebP by default, including its new Image Viewer. View WebP Images Ubuntu, Linux Mint and related distros Hence, this article will discuss how to view, create and convert WebP images in Linux systems. The file managers or image viewers use that loader library to enable the display of WebP images. By default, the WebP image loader is not available in Ubuntu Linux. Hence, you need to install the webp-pixbuf-loader library using the following PPA to view a WebP image in Ubuntu. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:helkaluin/webp-pixbuf-loader This library enables GTK applications to show the WebP images. If you want to learn how a GDK library works between the display server (e.g. X.Org) and GTK components, visit this page. Leap and Tumbleweed packages are available here. Visit the page and click on the Expert Download to install. In Arch Linux, the package is available in the community repo. Hence the installation is easy using the following command. sudo pacman -S webp-pixbuf-loader Fedora Linux, RHELįor Fedora and other related distributions, use the following command to install. ![]() sudo dnf install webp-pixbuf-loaderĪfter installation is complete, restart your system (optional). Browse to any directory with WebP images, and you should see them in thumbnails or the default image viewer. Here’s an example image with a before-after view of the Nautilus file manager in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with WebP images. Linux Mint is bringing WebP support from the Mint 21 “Vanessa” release onwards, which should work for the Nemo file manager. Until then, you can use the above PPA to view the WebP images in Linux Mint. How to view WebP image in Ubuntu and other Linux using an app (recommended)įirstly, the famous raster graphics program GIMP can open and save WebP images from version 2.10 onwards (currently available for all distros). Secondly, you can use the following image viewers (other than what your desktop offers), which support WebP. gThumb – A GTK-based image viewer įinally, LibreOffice 7.4 (due in August) brings native WebP support for both import and export for its all components – Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress.Webp files, it’s worth knowing how to convert them.įirstly, install the webp packages for Ubuntu or Fedora Linux, including related distros using the following command. ![]()
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