Irfanview alternative

Two lightweight image viewers that offer this sort of simple functionality and still have configurable or scriptable interfaces are feh and sxiv.

Another alternative is qiv.

From the home page:

Quick Image Viewer for Linux, Solaris(SunOS), FreeBSD and HP-UX ... is a very small and pretty fast gdk/Imlib image viewer.

Requires: gdk-2.0 and Imlib2. Policy: GNU GPL Features:

• moving & zooming image in fullscreen mode.
• setting image as x11 background (centered,tiled,stretched..) with user settable background color
• fullscreen viewing with a great statusbar
• external "qiv-command" program support
• screensaver mode
• brightness/contrast/gamma correction
• real transparency
• maxpect (zoom to screen size while preserving aspect ratio)
• scale_down (scale down to big images to fit screen size)
• slideshow (with random order if you want)
• filename filer
• flip horizontal/vertical, rotate left/right
• delete function (move to .qiv-trash/)
• jump to image number x, jump forward/backward x images
• exif autorotation
• browse mode when launching from file manager