{"id":5425,"date":"2021-06-10T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2021-06-10T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:04:02","slug":"geeqie-image-viewer-showing-only-white-squares-in-ubuntu-21-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/10\/geeqie-image-viewer-showing-only-white-squares-in-ubuntu-21-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeqie image viewer showing only white squares in Ubuntu 21.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu 21.04 uses Wayland (vs X11) and packages a version of the geeqie image viewer that has a bug where this results in displaying white squares instead of images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/BestImageViewer\/geeqie\/issues\/539\">https:\/\/github.com\/BestImageViewer\/geeqie\/issues\/539<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The workaround until Ubuntu updates their geeqie package is to go to Edit-&gt;Preferences in GeeQie and in the &#8220;Image&#8221; area enable the option &#8220;Use GPU acceleration via the Clutter library (requires restart)&#8221;. Once you close and re-start Geeqie, it works! (Assuming your graphics card supports GPU acceleration).<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:238,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/github.com\\\/BestImageViewer\\\/geeqie\\\/issues\\\/539&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260415062644\\\/https:\\\/\\\/github.com\\\/BestImageViewer\\\/geeqie\\\/issues\\\/539&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 23:35:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 13:09:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 22:26:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-08 07:30:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-28 17:19:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-03 13:38:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-07 03:37:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-18 05:04:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-18 05:04:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu 21.04 uses Wayland (vs X11) and packages a version of the geeqie image viewer that has a bug where this results in displaying white squares instead of images. https:\/\/github.com\/BestImageViewer\/geeqie\/issues\/539 The workaround until Ubuntu updates their geeqie package is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/10\/geeqie-image-viewer-showing-only-white-squares-in-ubuntu-21-04\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}