ImageGlass
by Duong Dieu Phap
A Fast, Seamless Photo Viewer
Support the creators
Flatsonar is just the shop window. The people below made ImageGlass.
About
ImageGlass is a fast, modern, open-source image viewer built for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Designed for speed and efficiency, it delivers a smooth, immersive viewing experience by combining high-performance rendering with professional-grade tools for both everyday users and designers. ImageGlass provides seamless, quick navigation across more than 90 image formats, including WEBP, GIF, SVG, AVIF, JXL, HEIC, and raw images.
Permissions
3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- full access to your entire file system
--filesystem=host - sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak - X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - printing
--socket=cups - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - talks to org.freedesktop.FileManager1
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.FileManager1 - screensaver inhibit
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver
Who publishes this
The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.
- installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
source:prebuilt - hosted by github.com/d2phap, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.d2phap.imageglass
publisher:namespace