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Pix displays only thumbnails of images on network server

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I'm running LInux Mint 20.1 XFCE. I have a Debian server on my home network where I store all of my documents, pictures, whatever.

When I open a folder on the server in Thunar via sftp I can browse the files without any problem

If I open an image from the same folder in Gimp the image displays at full size when the image display percentage is at 100%, exactly as I would expect.

When I try to open the same image in Pix it only displays a thumbnail view in the viewer, even though the display percentage shows 100%. If I copy the image from the network folder to my local computer where I'm running Pix, then Pix displays the image at full size, so it obviously isn't a problem with the image itself.

It seems that Pix fails when it loads an image from a network url.

Has anybody seen this before? Is this the way Pix is supposed to work, or is it a bug?
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Re: Pix displays only thumbnails of images on network server

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This seems to be a known bug re viewing PNG images over a network: https://github.com/linuxmint/pix/issues/101
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Re: Pix displays only thumbnails of images on network server

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I have installed Xviewer from the standard repositories as a replacement for Pix.

Xviewer correctly displays PNG images from a network computer.
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