Tesses Image Viewer

A simple SDL2 photo viewer that is keyboard navigated

Building from source

Dependencies

• A C++ compiler (g++, clang++)
• Meson + Ninja
• SDL2 development headers
• SDL_image development headers

Install build tools

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install build-essential meson ninja-build libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev 

# Fedora
sudo dnf install gcc-c++ meson ninja-build SDL2-devel SDL2_image-devel 

# Arch
sudo pacman -S base-devel meson ninja sdl2 sdl2_image

Build and install

meson setup build
meson compile -C build
sudo meson install -C build   

How to use

You set it as your default image viewer in your distro of choice (we only support freedesktop, most commonly linux/freebsd on other oses your mileage may vary, you would need to setup file assosiations yourself and there won't be a custom icon)

It is completely keyboard driven

• <- Previous image
• -> Next image
• HOME First image
• END Last image
• PGUP Go previous 20
• PGDOWN Go next 20
• O The image that was loaded when you started
• Esc Quit

Supported image formats

• BMP
• JPEG
• PNG
• AVIF
• TIFF
• WEBP