# tview > A (relatively) fast, lightweight, and useful image viewer. ![[main.png]] # Features - Supports most common image formats - EXIF Viewing - Histogram Calculation - Toggle image filtering - Pixel level details - Color tooltip # Gallery ## Tooltip Toggle the tooltip by pressing `t` ![[tooltip.png]] ## Detail Views Toggle detail modes by pressing `d` | Normal Arrow | Hex Color | RGB 255 Color | RGB Float Color | | --------------------- | ------------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------- | | ![[detail_arrow.png]] | ![[detail_hex.png]] | ![[detail_rgb_int.png]] | ![[detail_rgb_float.png]] | ## Image Filtering Toggle Filtering by pressing | Filtering Off | Filtering On | | ---------------------- | --------------------- | | ![[filtering_off.png]] | ![[filtering_on.png]] | # Usage `tview PATH/TO/IMAGE` Press `h` to show the help dialog within the program. ## Mouse Scroll to zoom. Click and drag to pan. ## Keyboard - `h` - Show help - `c`- Toggle Histogram - `e`- Toggle EXIF data - `d`- Cycle [[#Detail Views]] (default off) - `a` - Toggle image filtering (default off) - `g` - Toggle grid (only visible at pixel level) - `r`- Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise - `q` - Quit # Installing ## Requirements to Run - SDL2 - OpenGL - Libexiv2 ## Requirements to build In addition to the run requirements - CMake - C++ Compiler (g++/clang++) ### On Ubuntu ``` apt install --no-install-recommends build-essential cmake libsdl2-dev libexiv2-dev mesa-utils ``` ### On Debian ``` apt install --no-install-recommends build-essential cmake libsdl2-dev libexiv2-dev mesa-utils ``` ### On Arch ``` pacman -Sy sdl2 mesa-utils exiv2 cmake base-devel ``` ## Building Clone the repository ``` git clone https://git.dws.rip/dubey/tview.git ``` Change directory into the repository ``` cd tview ``` Generate build files and trigger build ``` cmake . cmake --build . ``` You will now have a file called `tview` in the repository root, you can copy this into your path: ``` sudo mv ./tview /usr/local/bin/tview ``` `tview` is now installed on your system