Lightview

A blazing-fast, minimalist image viewer built with Rust, designed for Hyprland user.

Design Philosophy

The idea behind Lightview came from using various image viewers on Wayland, each with their own strengths and limitations:

• Swappy has a clean, borderless display (in fullscreen mode) that looks great, but doesn't support navigating between images
• Sxiv offers a minimal viewing experience, but with distracting white/black borders around images
• Eye of GNOME provides useful features but comes with a heavy window decoration that detracts from the viewing experience

Lightview aims to combine the best aspects of these viewers - Swappy's clean display, Sxiv's minimalism, and useful navigation features - while avoiding their limitations. The result is a fast, minimal image viewer that lets you focus entirely on the images.

Features

• Borderless window that matches image dimensions
• Keyboard navigation between images in the same directory
• Fullscreen mode
• Supports common image formats (JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP)

Requirements

• Rust (latest stable)
• GTK4

Usage

# View a single image
lightview path/to/image.jpg

# View all images in current directory
lightview .

# View all images in specific directory
lightview path/to/directory

Keyboard Controls

• Left Arrow: Previous image
• Right Arrow: Next image
• F: Toggle fullscreen (gallery mode)
• Q: Quit

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

MIT