Behavior Options

Prompts for confirmation before deleting files.

Prompts for confirmation before moving files to the trash bin.

Enabled by default. Prompts before permanently deleting a folder and all its contents, including subfolders. The folder context menu offers both Move to Trash and Permanently Delete, each using its own confirmation setting. Disabling this option starts permanent deletion without confirmation; errors are still reported.

Enabled by default. Prompts before moving a complete folder tree to Trash as one item. The confirmation shows the number of descendant folders and all files, including hidden files, sidecars, symbolic links, and files excluded by display filters. Symbolic link targets are never traversed. If contents cannot be counted reliably, an error is shown and deletion stops.

Built-in counting and recursive operations run in the background with a progress dialog and a Cancel button. Cancellation stops further work; files already removed are not restored. Failure messages distinguish incomplete copying from a completed copy followed by failed source removal. They identify the source and destination paths, say whether an incomplete copy was removed or remains, and report how many source entries were removed. A completed copy is retained when source removal fails. Built-in deletion refuses folder trees containing mount points, including bind mounts, before deleting any contents; symbolic links are not followed. Sources that change while being copied are checked before removal and the operation stops if a change is detected. Disabling this option starts trashing without confirmation. Failed trashing never falls back to permanent deletion.

Disable this to disassociate the delete file function from the Delete key.

If Confirm file delete , above, is disabled, accidentally hitting the Delete can result in files being erroneously deleted without warning. Disabling the Delete key will prevent this. The Ctrl + D key sequence is not affected.

Moves deleted files to a temporary folder, for easy retrieval of deleted files. Items in the temporary folder are retained until the maximum size is reached, at which point deleting additional items will result in removal of the oldest trash entries to reclaim space. Folder sizes include their descendants, and a folder tree is removed as a whole item. Automatic removal displays a desktop notification showing the number of entries permanently deleted and the space reclaimed. An incoming item larger than the limit is refused with an error before removing any existing trash entries. The original item and existing trash entries are preserved.

Moves deleted files to the system-defined trash bin.

Selects permanent deletion as the default. The folder context menu still offers Move to Trash; that explicit action uses the last selected trash location without changing this default.

The location of the folder used by the Safe Delete feature.

The size limit for Geeqie trash, in MiB. The default for new configurations is 5120 MiB (5 GiB). The control accepts limits up to 102400 MiB (100 GiB). Existing saved limits are preserved. Setting this value to 0 (zero) disables the limit.

Removes all files contained in the Safe Delete folder.

Changes the Geeqie main window to display the deleted files in the Safe Delete folder.

This will allow Geeqie to read sub folder content to determine if it should display expander indicators in the folder tree view.

When renaming a single file in a folder shown in list view, the rename entry appears directly over the original filename. This applies to the main Rename action (F2 by default) and the files pane context menu. Other views and multiple-file selections use the Rename dialog.

If selected, a single click will enter a directory, rather than the GTK+ default of a double click.

If selected, when traversing a list of selected images using Next or Previous Image, when the last or first image is encountered the focus moves to the beginning or end of the list. When deselected, focus will go no further than the start or end of the list.

If selected, when the last image in the current folder is reached using Next Image, Geeqie will automatically advance to the first image in the next sibling folder. Likewise, when the first image is reached using Previous Image, Geeqie will automatically go to the last image in the previous sibling folder.

Save all marks that have been set. Note that marks that are linked to a keyword will always be saved irrespective of this setting.

Saved marks are retained for temporarily unavailable files, such as files on a disconnected drive. They become available again when the files return at the same paths. Clearing all marks also clears retained marks for unavailable files.

Move the "With Rename" button to the default position.

If this option is set, an image can be inserted into a Collection any number of times.

When alt-tabbing, prevent Geeqie window showing twice.

Hide Overlay Screen Display in fullscreen mode.

This is the maximum number of entries to be displayed in the recent open folder list drop-down box.

The maximum number of recently opened or saved collections retained between sessions. The default is 100, and the range is 1 to 1000. Open collection combines this history with files in the default collections directory; the limit applies only to history entries. Unavailable collections remain in history and appear grayed out in the list. Existing .gqv files in this history are also updated when images are renamed or moved within Geeqie, even if the collections are saved outside the default collections directory. This setting is independent of the recent folder list and does not control Open recent, which uses GTK's shared recent-files database.

The last image viewed in a folder is stored in a list. This value is the maximum number of entries in the list. When a folder is subsequently re-opened, focus moves to the last image viewed in that folder.

This is the width and height of the icon generated from image and displayed when doing drag and drop actions. High resolution screens may require to increase this number.

When using drag and drop to copy or move files, the default action is to use a pop-up menu to permit you to select which action is to be taken. This option allows you to set the default action to either Copy or Move.

This option determines which clipboard selection is used for the "Copy path" menu item. The exact method of the paste operation will depend on the operating system, but in general will be:

This will cause image panning speed to gradually accelerate when holding down the keyboard arrows.

Defines the amount to pan an image when using the keyboard arrows.

The default is for the mouse wheel to change the image, and to scroll the image when Shift is used in combination with the wheel. Enabling this swaps the behavior so that operating the wheel will scroll the image, and holding down Shift will change the image.

When enabled, zooming or panning an image that is larger than the image pane temporarily displays an overview of the complete image. The overview indicates the visible region and can be clicked or dragged to pan the image. It hides automatically after a short period of inactivity. This option is disabled by default.

If selected, mouse left-click will select the next image; mouse middle-click will select the previous image.

If selected, mouse left-click on an image belonging to the archive class will decompress the file contents and display them in a new Geeqie window.

If selected, mouse left-click on an image belonging to the video class will start a program chosen in a box below.

Some mice have additional buttons designated Back/Forward (mouse buttons 8 and 9). You may allocate any menu item to either of these buttons.

Displayed when compiled with the option --enable-debug-log. This defines the verbosity of debug info sent to console and log window (0 disables the debug output).

The maximum number of data lines to be displayed. The window will show the most recent data.