Picasa viewer can browse through directories of images, but it can get confused on ordering. Note that Picasa viewer doesn’t support animated GIFs, so stick with a different viewer for those.You’re done! The Picasa viewer should now be your desktop environment’s default image viewer (for the above image types).
Here’s an easier method: edit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list to add: image/jpeg=sktop You can do this by going to the Properties dialog on one file of each relevant image type and then mucking with the Open with tab.īut this is cumbersome, and there’s a bug in Ubuntu 12.04 which makes this dialog crash entirely on TIF files. Place in ~/.local/share/applications/sktop Step 5: set as the default handler for images
install it and the Picasa Photo Viewer get installed along. menu totally screwed up on my 4k display I can't change any of the settings. You can now use the Picasa image viewer via command line as picasa-view. No PNG support as free version, unusable. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Save this script as /usr/local/bin/picasa-view. Wine "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Picasa3\\PicasaPhotoViewer.exe" "$1" 2> /dev/null Step 3: create a launcher script #!/bin/bash Step 2: install Picasa via WINE wine ~/Downloads/picasa39-setup.exe You’ll be informed Picasa is “not available for your operating system”, but View Source on that page and you’ll find the download link for the Windows version. The stock image viewers in Ubuntu don’t even compare.īut luckily, the Picasa image viewer runs well under WINE and can be set up on Ubuntu rather easily! Step 1: download Picasa It uses a full-screen lightbox for display. The newest format, PNG (Portable Network.
The image viewer bundled with Picasa is unparalleled in quality. The GIF format supports transparency, allowing the graphic designer to remove the background of the image.