The file pane displays the images contained in the active folder. It has two modes of display, allows multiple selection, and can initiate drag and drop operations.
A context menu can be displayed by clicking the right mouse button on the file pane or pressing the menu key while the file pane has the focus.
List view
This mode can be enabled by selecting List from the View menu, pressing Ctrl + L, or unselecting View as icons from the context menu.
The list view mode displays images in a standard vertical list. Three columns provide the file name, size in bytes, and the time the contents were last modified.
Thumbnails can be displayed next to each file in the list, to toggle thumbnails on or off by selecting Thumbnails from the View menu, pressing T, clicking
Grouped sidecar files are represented by the main file with an expander. Clicking on the expander shows sidecar files.
Changing the file list font
The file list normally uses your desktop's interface font. To change the font for the file names and details in list view, create or edit ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css. The file must be named gtk.css, in the gtk-4.0 directory (with a hyphen). If that directory already contains settings.ini, leave it in place and create gtk.css alongside it. Put the following rule in gtk.css, not in settings.ini; no geeqie.ini file is needed:
.geeqie-file-list {
font-family: monospace;
}If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, use gtk-4.0/gtk.css inside that directory instead. Create the directory and file if they do not exist, and preserve any existing rules.
You can replace monospace with an installed font name, such as "DejaVu Sans Mono", and optionally add font-size: 11pt; inside the braces.
Restart Geeqie to apply the change. This rule applies to the main file pane in list view, search results, and both file lists in the Find Duplicates window. The folder pane, icon view, metadata tables, and keyword trees keep their usual fonts. To restore the default font, remove the rule and restart Geeqie.
This mode can be enabled by selecting Icons from the View menu, pressing Ctrl + I, or selecting View as icons from the context menu.
The icon view mode displays images as thumbnails in a grid, and by default a file name below each thumbnail.
The file name displayed below each thumbnail can be turned on or off by selecting Show filename text from the context menu.
Grouped sidecar files are represented by the main file. For accessing sidecars switch to List mode.
A filter box can be opened by selecting Show File Filter from the View menu.
Characters you type into this box will be used for pattern matching to select the files displayed. Regular expressions are used in this field.
For basic pattern matching "JPG" will match any filename containing those characters. If you type a newline, the text will be saved in the dropdown box list. The last 10 items are saved. To delete an item, select it from the drop-down list, click on the text box to select the text, and then press Delete followed by Enter .By default filtering is case-insensitive. A checkbox labelled "Case" permits the filter to be made case-sensitive.
Additionally a drop-down box permits any of the file Classes to be selected or deselected from the viewed list.
The Label drop-down filters by a mapped color, unlabeled images, or other label text. See Color labels for assignment and mapping preferences.
Also additionally a drop-down box permits any of the file Rating to be selected or deselected from the viewed list.
Multiple selection
It is possible to select more than one image from the file pane. Multiple files can be selected with several methods:
Mouse
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Ctrl + Primary mouse button will add or remove the file from the selection.
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Middle mouse button will toggle selection of the file.
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Shift + Primary mouse button will select all images between the clicked and focused image, or it will unselect all those images if the clicked image is already selected.
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Shift + Ctrl + Primary mouse button works as Shift + Primary mouse button, but will not change the selection of files outside the region between the focus and clicked image.
Keyboard
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Ctrl + Arrows will move the focus without changing the selection.
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Ctrl + Space will toggle selection of the focused image.
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Shift + Arrows will select a region of images.
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Shift + Ctrl + Arrows works as Shift + Arrows, but will not change the selection of files outside the current focus region.
To select all files press Ctrl + A, or to unselect all image press Ctrl + Shift + A. These operations are also available from the Edit menu as Select all and Select none .
The current number of selected images and their total size will be indicated in the File list section of the status bar .
Sorting
The order of the images can be changed by clicking the sort area of the status bar or from the context menu. The sort methods are by file name, number, file date, or file size. The number method will sort file names by their natural order, for example files with names of file_10, file_12, and file_9 will appear in order file_9, file_10, and file_12.
Selecting the ascending menu item will toggle between increasing and decreasing sort order.
Drag and Drop
Drag and drop can be initialized with the primary or middle mouse buttons in the file pane. Dragging a file that is selected will include all selected files in the drag. Dragging a file that is not selected will first change the selection to the dragged file, and clear the previous selection.