I have loupe/eye of gnome installed on Ubuntu 25.10. It does not zoom below 100% unless you click on the a lower zoom level in the drop down menu on bottom right. Then you can zoom in and out freely until you reach 100%, at which point you need to click on the drop down menu. I do not know whether this is expected behavior or if I should report a bug. Please let me know if this is expected behavior, so if you can zoom below 100% just using your mouse then I might have to report a bug.
Loupe or Eye of GNOME? Those are different apps
The âaboutâ shows âImage Viewer- the Gnome Projectâ 49.0. The program has basic editing features, unlike any version of âImage Viewerâ I have seen.
Hereâs the debugging info:
Version: 49.0
- App ID: org.gnome.Loupe
- Sandboxed: false
OS Information
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 25.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="25.10"
VERSION="25.10 (Questing Quokka)"
VERSION_CODENAME=questing
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=questing
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Does the image at 100% zoom fit the window? Loupe 49.1 doesnât zoom out beyond the image fitting in the window for me. If the window is made smaller, such that the image wonât fit at 100% zoom, it can be zoomed out further.
If that describes your issue, what is the use of zooming out further when the image already wholly fits the window?
For example I opened a wallpaper from /usr/share/backgrounds/gnome which are large images. In the below window you can see it fits the window at 14% zoom. What is the use for zooming it out further? (Donât mind the 800% and 400% shortcuts in the window being wrong, thatâs my experimental patch.)
I need an image viewer that easily and smoothly zooms in and out with the mouse wheel. Every version of an image viewer I have used with Ubuntu (2008-present) has had that ability. This program does not.
In my case 100% does not fill out the screen. That takes about 150%. Starting there I can zoom to 100% but not below. In some cases, particularly on an external monitor, I need to be able to do so. Under other circumstances, such when I need to zoom in on a detail, I might need to have more than 150%, how much I never have paid attention to as the program always did what I needed it to do.
Loupe will allow me to go below 100% if I click on the zoom menu and say click on 50%. I can zoom in further. Once I go beyond 100% I have to click on the zoom menu again. Eliminate this step and the program would work as previous image viewers have in this regard, in addition to having some useful basic features never before available. (By the way Loupe would not open GIMP but thatâs not so important to me).
I hope that clarifies the matter.
I canât reproduce what you describe, or I donât understand it. Maybe make a video to illustrate it.
- With a very large image â too large to fit in the window at 100% â opening it in Loupe starts zoomed out, with a zoom level below 100%, so the whole image fits in the window. Mouse wheel scroll can be used to smoothly zoom in (increase above 100% zoom) and zoom back out (decrease below 100% zoom) up to the image fitting wholly in the window again.
- With a very small image â too small to fill the window at 100% â opening it in Loupe starts at zoom level 100%. Showing the image at its actual size. Same here, mouse wheel scroll smoothly zooms in and out, except zoom out goes down to 100% at most.
I donât fit a problem with either.
Hereâs a video for 1:
What you describe in 2) is what is happening. Zoom goes down to X% with the mouse wheel. That is my complaint. i want it to continue below x% without having to click on the arrow to activate the zoom menu.
I have just realized that the percentage below which scrolling will not continue without activaating the scroll % window depends on the size of the image you start with. I opened one image of 1.4 mb. The percentage showing in the scroll % menu was 55.45%. I can not scroll below that % without activting the % menu, clicking on 50% (the lowest preselect). Then I could reach 1.27%.
I will try to do a video but know what the problem is, you described it well: â. Same here, mouse wheel scroll smoothly zooms in and out, except zoom out goes down to 100% at most.â
gary
If the image in your example fits wholly in the window at 55.45% zoom why do you want to zoom out further to 50%? It would add a black border around the image, not show more of the image as it is already fully shown.
Suppose you match the dimensions of the image to a painting or drawing. For example, say you have a comparatively small drawing of an arm. You want to make sure the drawing has correct dimensions so you need to match the scale so you might have to out beyond 50%.
I just opened a 6.3 meg photo. It opened at 15%. It filled the screen. To zoom in I had to type in a percentage. Never had to do that before now. I could just zoom in to whatever level I wanted with the wheel.
To me this is a significant limitation.
gary
have always been able to do that until now.
Thatâs what I described in 1 above, for which I included a video. Zooming in/out with the mouse wheel works as expected for the 4096 x 4096 pixel image as you can see.
If the doesnât for you I donât know what could cause that but that sounds more like something is interfering with your mouse wheel.
I made a video but cannot upload it here. I can upload it. None of the options I am provided do not allow video uploads. In any case I conclude that since you can not duplicate the problem there is no way for you to fix it. Maybe by the time the changes in 25.10 are incorporated into 26.04 I will no longer need to use a different program.
In the video I opened an image which came in at 50%. I could not zoom in any further with the mouse. I had to select the percentage menu. I clicked on 50% and then from there I could zoom in practically to the point of invisibility, Once I zoomed back out to 50% I could not zoom in again without repeating the procedure. I could zoom way in, however, to at least 300% with the wheel.
I canât think of anything else I can offer but if you think of something let me know and I will give it a go.
gary
I had the same issue. I think it was possible before? I uploaded the video to imgur.com, copied the link to the video from there and pasting it here Discourse does embed the video.
I followed your lead. Far easier than uploading to youtube.
I installed gThumb. I can zoom seamlessly with that program. You have to hold down the Cntrl key, a minor inconvenience.
I appreciate all your efforts on this.
gary