Changelog

[0.1.1] - 2026-11-13

Faster

Start-up initialises only the GPU backend that worked last time (remembered in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/remage/backend): the first frame takes about 40 ms instead of 90.
JPEGs decode straight to RGBA, EXIF rotation happens on the GPU, and sRGB profiles are no longer "converted" to sRGB: a rotated, tagged 24 MP photo decodes in about 80 ms instead of 180.
Other ICC profiles convert on several threads.
The grid requests thumbnails while the GPU starts up: a cached grid opens in about 55 ms.
Quitting no longer waits for decodes in flight.

The first release: a keyboard-centric image viewer for Linux, at nsxiv parity with vim keys, GPU rendering and wallpaper theming.

Viewing

Opens files, directories (-r for trees) or a list on stdin (-i, -0); a single file opens its whole directory. Natural, name, mtime, size and random sort, and the queue follows files appearing and vanishing on disk.
GPU-rendered with wgpu: the first image in about 90 ms, neighbours preloaded so n/p take one frame, and no CPU use while the view is still.
Fit modes, zoom at the cursor, smooth panning, rotation and flips, automatic nearest filtering for pixel art, gamma/brightness/contrast, and a dot-matrix transparency background.
Thumbnail grid on the shared freedesktop cache, with marks, visual-mode ranges and smooth scrolling.
Slideshow, and animation playback with frame stepping.

Formats

JPEG, PNG/APNG, GIF, WebP, BMP, ICO, TIFF (multi-page), TGA, PNM, QOI, DDS, HDR and OpenEXR, plus JPEG XL, AVIF, HEIC/HEIF, SVG/SVGZ (re-rendered sharp at any zoom) and camera RAW.
ICC and CICP colour management, EXIF orientation, HDR tone-mapping, and tiling for images larger than the GPU's texture limit.
External decoders through [[decoders]], such as ImageMagick for PSD and XCF.

Control

Vim key notation with sequences and counts. Every feature is an action you can bind, run from the : palette or send over IPC.
/ fuzzy filename search, which-key hints, ? help built from the live keymap, and an info panel with EXIF data.
User commands that replace nsxiv's key-handler: placeholders, marks as targets, inline confirm, output fed back as actions, and an automatic refresh afterwards.
An IPC socket and the remage msg client, with queries and event subscriptions.

Configuration

One TOML file with live reload, includes, file:line:col errors and "did you mean" hints.
nothing-dark and nothing-light themes; matugen and pywal recolour open windows live.
A man page (remage man) and shell completions (remage completions <shell>).

Known gaps

RAW support is built but hasn't been tested on real camera files yet.
The prebuilt binary is built on Arch Linux and needs dav1d and libheif installed. On other distributions, build from source.