Lightning Image Viewer
overlay, map-like controls, toggling, image-rs
Details
- External ID
- 46498628
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lightning Image Viewer
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN!I'd like to share my app for viewing images the way I find comfortable on a desktop computer. No window frame, no menus, no toolbars, just the image itself in transparent fullscreen overlay; pan (move around) with mouse with left button pressed (or keyboard arrows), zoom into point under cursor with scroll (or into point at center of display with keyboard +=/-/0), close with left click anywhere (or keyboard Enter, allowing "instant toggle" between file manager and image view). Written in C and Rust with SDL3 and image-rs.Source and builds for Linux (Ubuntu 25.10, Nix expr) and Windows: https://github.com/shatsky/lightning-image-viewerMicrosoft store (with screenshot): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9np4j8k90smkWeb demo: https://shatsky.github.io/lightning-image-viewer/Dev notes: https://shatsky.github.io/notes/2025-03-07_sdl3-image-viewer...
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- image viewer for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight desktop image viewing utility with pan/zoom controls and transparent fullscreen overlay, easily implemented using frameworks like Tauri, Electron, or native Rust/C++ bindings with AI assistance.
Discussion
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