OK, I've got a dumb question. i'd like to use one of my pics as my avitar, but it's too big in kB . what app would you suggest to reduce the kB size of my ,jpg ?
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Gimp should give you multiple options to reduce the size of a jpeg.
Caja has a plug-in that can be used for this kind of thing.
sudo apt install caja-image-converter
See - https://itsfoss.com/resize-images-with-right-click/ They speak about Nautilus but the same capability exists for Caja.
Why use a sledge hammer (GIMP) when a ball peen will do?
Good luck Doug.
Edit: Further reading can be found at - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1164/how-to-easily-resize-images-via-command-line
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charles,
thank you for your response.
I did install gimp from the boutique, or so I assumed. Couldn't figure out how to use it so I read the help file & discovered not all of the package is present. Re-installed from Boutique and from a terminal with the same result.
I also have a computer running MX Linux, so opened gimp in MX and it looks very different. In MX there is a horizontal drop-down menu along the top of the window (file, edit, select, view, image, etc...) and there are 2 vertically oriented tool windows, one on the left & another on the right.
So, the question now is where's the gimp ?
mdooley,
thank you for your reply as well. I'll be following your suggestion here soon.
OK. Ran this. Look OK ?
doug@Office:~$ sudo apt install caja-image-converter
[sudo] password for doug:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
caja-image-converter
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 98.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirror.clarkson.edu/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 caja-image-converter amd64 1.20.0-1 [16.5 kB]
Fetched 16.5 kB in 1s (21.0 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package caja-image-converter.
(Reading database ... 303163 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../caja-image-converter_1.20.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking caja-image-converter (1.20.0-1) ...
Setting up caja-image-converter (1.20.0-1) ...
doug@Office:~$
GIMP can be intimidating--not the least of the reasons is that it uses multiple windows much like very many apps did back in the pre-Linux Unix/X-windows days, and unlike the everything-within-one-border-belongs-to-this-app style that came from Microsoft Windows.
It looks like you found a simpler method, which is great.
charles,
Yes, the method is simpler, but why is gimp incomplete in UM but complete in MX Linux. ie. why can't I get a full gimp install in Ubuntu Mate ?
Do you have any ideas ?
I have the following packages installed straight from repositories. Some may be dependencies and drawn in automatically.
gimp, gimp-data, gimp-data-extras, gimp-help-common, gimp-help-en, gimp-gutenprint
There are other language help files, plugins for other data sources, and some others available in repository, but I don't have them installed, and they are not needed for a jpeg.
charles,
the gimp is working now. Had to uninstall and also delete the hidden folder ".gimp.2.8" from my home folder before doing an install from the Software Boutique (from the welcome menu). Now I do have the File Edit Select View Image Layer...... drop down menu available. Didn't have that before.
Guess my initial install was missing a few bits and doing the above uninstall & delete exercise got me a clean install.
thanks for your suggestions
Doug
Also, see the post "Gimp install not functioning in 18.04"
Note suggestion from mdooley.