# Menus

This section describes the functions of each item on the menu bar in the Geeqie main window.

## File Menu

New window

  Opens a new main window, with the initial path set to the current folder.

New collection

  Opens a new collection window, the new collection will be empty.

Open collection

  Displays a dialog to open a collection stored on disk, the selected collection will then appear in a new window.

Open recent

  This menu item lists the recently active collections, selecting an item from the list will open that collection in a new window. The most recent item will appear at the top of the list. Maximum number of entries can be modified through Open recent list maximum size? option.

Search…

  Opens a new Search window.

Find duplicates…

  Opens a new Find Duplicates window.

Print..

  Opens a print dialog.

New folder…

  Creates a new folder in the current path.

Copy…

  Opens a dialog to select a destination to copy the currently selected files.

Move…

  Opens a dialog to select a destination to move currently selected files.

Rename…

  Renames the current file selection.

Delete…

  Deletes the current file selection.

Symlink

  Creates a symbolic link. This is implemented via external editor?.

Close window

  Closes the window containing the menu, if the window is the last main window Geeqie will quit.

Quit

  Quits the Geeqie application, if collections or image metadata have been changed but not saved, the user will be prompted for confirmation.

## Go menu

First Image

  Goes tothe first image.

Previous Image

  Goes to the previous image.

Next Image

  Goes to the next image.

Last Image

  Goes to the last image. Back Goes to the previous folder. Home Goes to home folder.

## Select menu

Select all

  Selects all files in the current list

Select none

  Deselects all files

Invert Selection

  Inverts current selection

Copy path

  Copy selected item path to clipboard.

Show marks

  Displays marks in the file list

Mark n

  Opens submenu for manipulating mark n

Mark n / Toggle mark n

  Set or unset mark n on selected files

Mark n / Set mark n

  Set mark n on selected files

Mark n / Reset mark n

  Unset mark n on selected files

Mark n / Select mark n

  Selects all files having mark n set

Mark n / Add mark n

  Adds files having mark n set to selection

Mark n / Intersection with mark n

  Intersects current selection and mark n

Mark n / Unselect mark n

  Removes files having mark n set from current selection

Mark n / Filter mark n

  Shows only the images that have mark n set.

## Edit menu

External Editors

  This submenu contains external editors that were found on the system. See Editors section? for details.

Orientation

  Adjust image orientation

Orientation / Rotate clockwise

  Rotates the current image clockwise 90 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.

Orientation / Rotate counterclockwise

  Rotates the current image counterclockwise 90 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.

Orientation / Rotate 180

  Rotates the current image 180 degrees, does not modify the file on disk.

Orientation / Mirror

  Swaps the left and right sides of the image so that the result is similar to that of looking at the image in a mirror, does not modify the file on disk.

Orientation / Flip

  Swaps the top and bottom sides of the image, does not modify the file on disk.

Orientation / Original state

  Removes all effects applied through the Adjust menu, reverting image to its original state. Orientation / Apply the orientation to image content The commands above modifies image metadata only. This commands actually transforms image pixels. See Editors section? for details.

Save metadata

  Saves queued metadata changes. Autosave can be configured too.

Preferences

  This submenu contains configuration and maintenance commands

Preferences / Preferences…

  Opens the Preferences Dialog for changing of global preferences.

Preferences / Configure Editors…

  Opens the Editors Dialog? for changing of global preferences.

Preferences / Configure This window…

  Opens the Window Preferences Dialog? for changing of options that can differ for each window.

Preferences / Thumbnail maintenance

  Opens a dialog with utilities to manage cached thumbnails and keywords data.

Set as wallpaper

  Renders the current image to the root window (desktop). The resulting image will be tiled to fit the root window if zoom is not set to fit to window; when zoom is set to fit to window, the image will be scaled to fill the root window.

## View menu

View in new window

  Opens selected image in its own window

Pan view

  Opens current folder in Pan view window

Files and Folders

Zoom

Zoom in

  Increases the zoom by one increment, resulting in a larger image.

Zoom out

  Decreases the zoom by one increment, resulting in a smaller image.

Zoom to fit

  Automatically adjusts the zoom so that the image will fit within the display pane. The effect on images with an original size smaller than the display pane can be changed with the Allow enlargement of image for zoom to fit option located on the Image tab of the preferences dialog.

Fit Horizontally

  Adjusts the zoom so image height fit within the display pane.

Fit Vertically

  Adjusts the zoom so image width fit within the display pane.

Zoom n:m

  Set zoom to the n:m value. 1:1 is the original size of the image. When n is greater than m, zoom in occurs else zoom out occurs.

Connected zoom

  Actions in this menu are identical to those in Zoom menu, but apply to all images displayed in splitted view.

Split

Horizontal

  Splits main image view in two horizontal panes.

Vertical

  Splits main image view in two vertical panes.

Quad

  Splits main image view in four panes.

Single

  Reverts to normal view mode (one image).

Thumbnails

  Toggles the display of image thumbnails in the file list, this item is not available when the file list is in icon view mode. A check appears next to this item when thumbnails are enabled.

List

  Changes the file list to display files in list format.

Icons

  Changes the file list to display files as icons.

View Directory as

List

  Set the folder view mode to list.

Tree

  Set the folder view mode to tree.

Image Overlay

  Displays Image Overlay information box (OSD), use twice to add histogram to it.

Histogram channels

  Switches channels displayed in the histogram (red, green, blue, RGB, value, maximum value).

Histogram log mode

  Toggles between linear and logarithmical histogram.

Full screen

  Toggles the full screen window display.

Float file list

  Toggles the location of the menu bar, tool bar, status bar, and file lists between the main window and a second window. A check appears next to this item when the location is the second window.

Hide file list

  Toggles visibility of the menu bar, tool bar, status bar, and file lists.

Hide toolbar

  Toggles visibility of the tool bar. A check appears next to this item when the tool bar is not visible.

Keywords

  Toggles display of the Keywords sidebar.

Exif data

  Toggles display of the EXIF sidebar.

Sort manager

  Toggles display of the Sort Manager sidebar.

Toggle slideshow

  Begins or ends a slide show, the slide show status is displayed in the status bar.

Pause slideshow

  Pauses a slide show, the slide show status is displayed in the status bar.

Refresh

  Updates the contents of the folder and file lists to match what is currently on disk, the current image will also be reread from disk.

## Help menu

Contents

  Opens the Geeqie user manual in a new browser window.

Keyboard shortcuts

  Displays a window listing the default keyboard shortcuts.

Release notes

  Displays a window containing the release notes for the version of Geeqie in use.

About

  Opens a window containing the Geeqie version, credits, website, and email contact information.

Log window

  Opens the log window, mostly used for debugging purposes.

## Tear off menus

Menus can be permanently displayed by selecting the dotted line item at the top of each menu category. A tear off menu will behave the same as an ordinary window. To close a tear off menu, select the dotted line item at the top of the menu.

## Keyboard shortcuts

The keyboard sequence associated to each menu entry is listed within the main window menu bar. For reference, the complete list of default keyboard shortcuts can be found in section Keyboard Shortcuts.

## Changing the main window menu bar keyboard shortcuts

The keyboard shortcuts associated with the menu bar items can be changed by editing the accels file located in the Geeqie configuration folder while the Geeqie application is not running:

`($HOME)/.geeqie/accels`

To change a menu item, first find the line corresponding to the menu item to change. For example the File menu Quit line originally looks like this:

`; (gtk_accel_path "&lt;main&gt;/File/Quit" "&lt;Control&gt;q")`

To change this menu's keyboard shortcut, first remove the leading semicolon (;), removing the semicolon will tell Geeqie that this menu item has been customized. Then change the keyboard shortcut defined by the text in quotes at the end of the line, be sure to only change the text within the quotes; in this case the text “&lt;control&gt;q”. For example changing the shortcut associated with Quit to the Q key will result in this line:

`(gtk_accel_path "&lt;main&gt;/File/Quit" "q")`

Please note the removed semicolon and the change of “&lt;control&gt;q” to “q”, be careful not to change any of the other text on the line or Geeqie may ignore the customization. The keyboard modifiers and their respective text are listed below:

<tablestyle="width:60%"> Key | Text to use in accels file
<tablestyle="width:60%"> Shift | &lt;shift&gt;
Ctrl | &lt;control&gt;
Alt | &lt;alt&gt;

Modifiers can be combined, for example in the exit line above, the text would be “&lt;control&gt;&lt;shift&gt;q” to set the exit shortcut to Ctrl + Shift + Q.