What viewers can play GIF animated images?

Question

On Manjaro running Fluxbox, I don't seem to have an image viewer that can play animated GIF files.

I think that Gwenview can and I have it on my KDE system. But on a Fluxbox system I would like to avoid too many KDE dependencies.

Answer 1

You can you use nearly any web browser, as they should play GIFs just fine.

Answer 2

If you'd like to avoid dependencies, you might also consider sxiv. It can play animated gifs using the -a flag, and only depends on imlib2.

Answer 3

Gwenview, as I said, but that's not what I wanted.

gThumb can do it. It comes with few dependencies but looks alien in Fluxbox.

A less desktop-dependent solution is #2 under here:

Install gifsicle.

Create a desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=GIFview 
Exec=gifview -a %f
Icon=gif
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
NoDisplay=true
MimeType=image/gif

and put it into ~/.local/share/applications.

Answer 4

VLC/videolan should do fine and is available on most systems.