What viewers can play GIF animated images?

Question

On Manjaro running Fluxbox, I don't seem to have an image viewer that can play animated GIF files.

I think that Gwenview can and I have it on my KDE system. But on a Fluxbox system I would like to avoid too many KDE dependencies.

You can use `animate` provided by ImageMagick. – Amessihel Oct 15 '15 at 14:36 — Amessihel, Oct 15 '15 at 14:36

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited May 08 '22 at 07:08

9

You can you use nearly any web browser, as they should play GIFs just fine.

edited May 08 '22 at 07:08

Matthias Braun

answered Feb 22 '17 at 14:23

Alexis Finn

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '15 at 15:00

8

If you'd like to avoid dependencies, you might also consider sxiv. It can play animated gifs using the -a flag, and only depends on imlib2.

answered Oct 15 '15 at 15:00

Chris Down

score 4 · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-22T15:01:50.423

Gwenview, as I said, but that's not what I wanted.

gThumb can do it. It comes with few dependencies but looks alien in Fluxbox.

A less desktop-dependent solution is #2 under here:

Install gifsicle.

Create a desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=GIFview 
Exec=gifview -a %f
Icon=gif
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
NoDisplay=true
MimeType=image/gif

and put it into ~/.local/share/applications.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 02 '20 at 12:00

1

VLC/videolan should do fine and is available on most systems.

answered Feb 02 '20 at 12:00

Felix

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