This section describes the options presented under the File Filters Tab of the preferences dialogue.
Filters
- Show hidden files or folders
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Enables the display of hidden files and folders, also known as dot files.
- Show parent folder
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Enables the display of the parent folder as a double dot in the directories views.
- Case sensitive sort (Collection and Search windows, and tab completion)
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Files and folders are sorted such that upper case letters occur before lower case letters.
Enabled result: A, B, C, a, b, c
Disabled result: A, a, B, b, C, c - Disable file extension checks
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During rename operations, allows files to be renamed to a different extension with no warning issued.
- Disable file filtering
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Enable this to allow Geeqie to list all files, even those that do not contain images.
Grouping sidecar extensions
This field defines which extensions will lead to file grouping. Grouped files will appear as a single entry in file views. This is useful, for example, when browsing directories containing two files for the same image (such as raw+jpeg files generated by some cameras).
The group is represented by the first extension in the list for which a file exists.
Each extension should include the starting dot and should be separated by a semi-colon from following entries. It is possible to use wild-cards corresponding to entries in the File Types Class below:
- %unknown
- expands to all files listed in class Unknown ,
- %image
- expands to all files listed in class Image ,
- %raw
- expands to all files listed in class RAW Image
- %meta
- expands to all files listed in class Metadata
File types
This list contains the image formats that are understood by Geeqie. To disable a specific file type from being displayed, uncheck it's corresponding check-box. Filters can be edited by first selecting the line containing the item to be changed, then clicking the filter or description field, making any changes, then pressing Enter ; press Escape to cancel an active edit.
Unlike all other options in the dialogue, filter list changes are applied immediately.
The table consists of:
- Enabled
- Whether or not the filter is used.
- Filter
- List of extensions this filter applies to, separated by a ; . Each extension must be preceded by a dot.
- Description
- Brief description. This is not used elsewhere.
- Class
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This may be used to define sets of file types, for use in the
Grouping
function described above. The drop-down list has 7 entries:
- Unknown
- Image
- RAW Image
- Metadata
- Video
- Collection
- Document
- Archive (.zip, .rar etc.)
- Writable
- If this option is checked, Geeqie will try to write metadata to the image file itself. This, and the following option, are mutually exclusive.
- Sidecar is allowed
- If this option is checked, Geeqie will try to write metadata to a sidecar file associated with the image. This, and the previous option, are mutually exclusive.
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Add
- Adds a new blank line to the filter list, change the parameters to match the desired file type.
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Remove
- Removes the selected line from the filter list.
- Resets the filter list to the default values, discarding any customizations made by the user.
- Columns other than Filter can be sorted in ascending or descending order by clicking on the column header.
- A search of the file extensions listed in the Filter column can be initiated either by typing Ctrl + F or by pressing any alpha-numeric key when the File Types table has focus.