Changelog

[0.1.0] - 2026-11-05

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.