shatsky/lightning-image-viewer
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Fast&lightweight desktop image (pre)viewer displaying image in transparent overlay, allowing border-free pan&zoom into hovered detail and toggling back to file manager in a single move
3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2026-01-05 · latest 2026-04-16
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…it, while having underlying windows visible outside of it (transparent fullscreen overlay): https://github.com/shatsky/lightning-image-viewer
comment by shatsky · 2026-04-16 · in Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared -
https://github.com/shatsky/lightning-image-viewer Tiny desktop (pre)viewer which displays image in transparent overlay without any UI, allowing to look into specific image detail with single hand move (zoom with scroll and pan with drag…
comment by shatsky · 2026-02-09 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) -
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Show HN: Lightning Image Viewer – overlay, map-like controls, toggling, image-rsstory by shatsky · 2026-01-05 · 0 comments