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Allow to switch to fullscreen mode using LIRC. Imagine the following situation (which happened to me several times) : you want to see photos from your bed or your sofa so you launch geeqie and go to the right directory, then you take your remote control and sit comfortably far from your keyboard and mouse. And when you want to begin to watch photos, you realize you forgot to enable full screen! You have to stand up and to go until your computer and come back, whereas you could have done it with your remote control. Patch by Bernard Massot.

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    <para>
      Legal Notice
    </para>
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      Copyright (c) 2008 - 2009 The Geeqie Team.<?db2html element="br"?>
      Copyright (c) 2004 John Ellis.
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    <para>
      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "<ulink url="/wiki/gnu_fdl">GNU Free Documentation License?</ulink>".
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    <title>
      Introduction
    </title>
    <para>
      Geeqie is an image viewer that makes navigation of images easy. Images can be viewed full screen, and a slide show function allows automatic changing of the displayed image.
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    <para>
      Geeqie is an image manager, with complete copy, move, rename, and delete functions available at the press of a button. Find the right image with the search feature. Image collectors can free up space with a function that finds duplicate images.
    </para>
    <para>
      The one thing Geeqie is not, and never will be, is an image editor. However, Geeqie paired with an image editor, such as the Gimp, can be a very powerful combination.
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    <para/><section id="BasicFeatures"><title>
      Basic Features
    </title>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact"><listitem><para>Thumbnail preview
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>Full screen
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>Slide show
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>Image Management
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>Image Collections
      </para></listitem></itemizedlist>
    <para/></section><section id="AdvancedFeatures"><title>
      Advanced Features
    </title>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact"><listitem><para>Image Search
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>Find image duplicates based on image content
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>View and edit EXIF, IPTC and XMP data stored in images
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>Simple Sort Manager to quickly sort a folder of images into other folders
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>Rename images in bulk
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>Add XMP keywords to images, and recall those images with the search function
      </para></listitem><listitem><para>Very Configurable
      </para></listitem></itemizedlist>
    <para>
      “An application that displays images.” - This was, and still is, the primary goal of Geeqie. Over time image management features have been added, but the core purpose of Geeqie remains the same.
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