Ristretto Image Viewer

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Introduction

The Ristretto Image Viewer is an application that can be used to view, and scroll through images. It can be used to run a slideshow of images, open images with other applications like an image-editor or configure an image as the desktop wallpaper.

The image types supported by Ristretto are those supported by the gdk-pixbuf library. This library itself supports a number of basic image types (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc.), but then relies on optional libraries to extend the range of supported image types. This means that you will have to install these libraries yourself to extend the range of image types supported by Ristretto. Examples: libwmf, libopenraw, libavif, libheif, libjxl, librsvg, webp-pixbuf-loader.

The following describes how you can use Ristretto, and how you can configure it to your preferences.

Image Viewer

Getting Started – Starting Ristretto for the first time
Preferences – Configure Ristretto

Latest Release

ristretto 0.13.4 released (2025/03/26 18:22)
ristretto 0.13.4 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/ristretto/0.13/ristretto-0.13.4.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/ristretto/0.13/ristretto-0.13.4.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/ristretto/0.13/ristretto-0.13.4.tar.xz?sha256 What is ristretto? ================== Ristretto is an image-viewer for the Xfce desktop environment. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start Release notes for 0.13.4 ======================== Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system, and autotools will be removed in a future release. - flatpak: Updates from flathub and use meson when possible - meson-build: Remove check for xdt-csource - autotools-build: Be sure gdbus-codegen files are regenerated - build: Replace xdt-csource with glib-compile-resources - build: Automate copyright year management - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0 - Completely hide pointer when fullscreen-timeout is set to 0 - viewer: Reset adjustments when switching file - Revert "viewer: Reset viewer geometry data when setting file" - Store adjustment values and restore them when switching file - viewer: Reset viewer geometry data when setting file - flatpak: Updates from Flathub and git - icon-bar: Silence -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning - Add meson build - icons: Remove old app icon - viewer: Don't set adjustement values if unchanged - Add support for showing containing folder - Translation Updates: Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian