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hughparker1

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From: Paisley, Scotland, UK

Registered: 2014-09-03

Posts: 8

What is the best software to manage photos on Xubuntu ?

Hi, I am fairly new to linux and have just installed Xubuntu 14.04 on an old laptop with only 1GB or RAM and Intel(R) CPU T2050 @ 1.60GHz. The default software is Ristretto but doesn't show large enough icons.

I was wondering what is the best software to manage my photo library, just want to move photos easily, show a reasonable sized icon and be able to rotate them if required. That's all I need.  Anything else would be a bonus.  Any suggestions?

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hughparker1

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: What is the best software to manage photos on Xubuntu ?

Hi, I am fairly new to linux and have just installed Xubuntu 14.04 on an old laptop with only 1GB or RAM and Intel(R) CPU T2050 @ 1.60GHz. The default software is Ristretto but doesn't show large enough icons.

"View >> Thumbnail Size" to change the size of the thumbnails.

I was wondering what is the best software to manage my photo library, just want to move photos easily, show a reasonable sized icon and be able to rotate them if required. That's all I need.  Anything else would be a bonus.  Any suggestions?

gthumb, eog (eye of gnome). More listed here.

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Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 863

Re: What is the best software to manage photos on Xubuntu ?

We've had good luck with mirage on low-resource machines.

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hacknix

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Registered: 2014-07-15

Posts: 24

Re: What is the best software to manage photos on Xubuntu ?

I'm on Xubuntu 14.04 as well and I use Mirage for scrolling with the mouse wheel in fullscreen view and Fotoxx for thumbnail image browser view and some basic manipulating functions.

http://www.kornelix.com/fotoxx.html

0strodamus

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Registered: 2014-01-22

Posts: 29

Re: What is the best software to manage photos on Xubuntu ?

Give XnViewMP a try. It's not as light as Mirage, but if it runs well on your system, you'll love it.

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birch

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Registered: 2014-07-12

Posts: 63

Re: What is the best software to manage photos on Xubuntu ?

I second the XnViewMP suggestion. But here are some others you might want to check out:

DigiKam
Geeqie
Shotwell
GPicView
GwenView

Randsome

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Registered: 2014-09-30

Posts: 2

Re: What is the best software to manage photos on Xubuntu ?

Darktable is a pretty image library software.
See: http://www.darktable.org/