XnView Software

I confirm that it's fixed (Tested in 1.9.1, probably fixed in 1.9.0 too)

Subject: 1.8.8: Extra blank parameter added to command line of programs launched using Open with menu

XnView: MP 1.8.8 - 64 bit
OS: Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS (64bit)

Launching a program using an open with menu ads an extra parameter in it's command line, triggering an error in some programs. Extra ...

Home page still says 1.4.1, though linked deb is 1.4.2. Tested, no theming issues so far, theme appears ok upon load, tooltips readable.

Haven't noticed a problem in previous version, only recent version broke. Could reproduce on a clean user profile where the default Xubuntu theme is Greybird, display server is Xorg.


with 1.3.1 no problem?


1.3.1 works fine, after downgrading tested in a clean user profile with no xnview ...

Haven't noticed a problem in previous version, only recent version broke. Could reproduce on a clean user profile where the default Xubuntu theme is Greybird, display server is Xorg.

XnView: MP 1.4.0 - 64 bit
OS: Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS - 64bit, XFCE 4.18 (packages from xubuntu-dev ppa, ppa:xubuntu-dev/staging), Greybird gtk theme

After opening XnView there's a wrong background/color on some ui elements of program. E.g. unreadable tooltips, wrong background in places, etc ...

XnView: MP 0.99.1 - 64 bit
OS: Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS - 64bit

Searching for similar files in a folder that contains symlinks to other folders results in program attempting to look in the symlinked folders some times results in infinite path recursion. Screenshot:
Search similar files 2021-09-24 14 ...

Confirming this build works. No crash when loadding affected image.

XnView: MP 0.99 - 64 bit
OS: Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS 64bit, proposed repository enabled

Xnview crash while trying to open the attached image in any mode (both browser and view), exiftool info for it is shown below, gdb backtrace generated using modified script with original located in /usr/bin ...

After some investingating I found that the TGZ and AppImage are also affected, not only DEB package has this problem. The first post has been updated.

Subject: 0.98.2 Linux Packages: Bad symlinks/missing files in the XnView lib directory

XnView: MP 0.98.2 - 64 bit
OS: Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS - 64bit

Inspecting installed files found in /opt/Xnview/lib I've located some broken symlinks pointing to missing files that were not included in the DEB ...

Works good so far, no crash; btw had to check the home page manually to download the package as the updater would not see the new version, it would appear that the program was up to date when using it.

The image loads fine in firefox and it doesn't use 3 GB of memory when this image loads. Xnview should not use this much if possible too. Chrome & Chromium doesn't use much memory too (also while firefox is running in background).

Program log under debugger, also killed by OOM killer, only other programs open was the browser and terminal running gdb.
Starting program: /opt/XnView/XnView gXHmu.gif
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New ...

Subject: 0.98.1 Linux: Memory leak resulting in out of memory kill while loading animated gif image

XnView: MP 0.98.1 - 64 bit
OS: Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS 64bit

Trying to open an animated gif image found on imgur triggers a memory leak some times resulting in the process being killed by the ...