# Pan View

This window offers alternative views of the current directory and its children .

It may be opened by Ctrl J View Pan view . You can pan the view as you pan an image in normal view mode, using left mouse button and drag.

A primary mouse button click on any image will display informations about the image. Secondary mouse button will show a context menu.

The available are listed in the Reference section.

Pan view recursively visits each folder under the specified folder. This can consume considerable computer resources.

## Select a folder

Location

  The initial location is the current Geeqie folder when the Pan view window is opened.

## Choose a view mode

A select box let you choose among different view modes:

Timeline

  Shows images grouped by date.

Calendar

  Shows a calendar with the number of images indicated for each day (as dots and number). Left mouse button click will show images in a pop-up.

Folders

  Show images grouped by folder. Each box represents a folder. Parent and children folders are shown as boxes enclosing other boxes.

Folders (flower)

  Show images grouped by folder. Each box represents a folder. Parent folders are linked to children by a line. The top folder is the center of the flower.

Grid

  All images are shown on a grid.

## How each image should be represented

Another select box let you choose the representation of each image:

Dots

  Each image is represented by a dot.

No images

  Each image is represented by a square box.

Small thumbnails

  Each image is represented by a small thumbnail.

Normal thumbnails

  Each image is represented by a normal thumbnail.

Large thumbnails

  Each image is represented by a large thumbnail.

1:10 (10%)

  Each image is represented by reduced image (1/10 of the original's dimensions).

1:4 (25%)

  Each image is represented by reduced image (1/4 of the original's dimensions).

1:3 (33%)

  Each image is represented by reduced image (1/3 of the original's dimensions).

1:2 (50%)

  Each image is represented by reduced image (1/2 of the original's dimensions).

1:1 (100%)

  The original image is shown at its normal dimensions.

## Find

At the bottom of the window:

Find button

  Shows a text field for image search. One can enter either:

  - filename or part filename
  - file date in any of the following forms, where the separator may one of `/` `-` `,` `.` or a space:
    - yyyy-mm-dd
    - yyyy-mm
    - yyyy

  Enter will start the search, pressing it again will move to the next match. The matched file is made visible and details are shown for it.