This is qbism. Do not taunt qbism. qbism plays well with ImageMagick. Get ImageMagick. It good. $ qbism -help $ qbism | display $ qbism -size 1024x768 | display -window root $ qbism -oversamp 3 | convert - output.png $ qbism -inqbe ~/gimp-qbist/foo.qbe | display $ qbism -outqbm - | grep -v SHIFT | qbism -inqbm - | display If you don't have ImageMagick, you can output directly to BMP: $ qbism -imgfmt bmp -outimg output.bmp qbism isn't fully GQbist 1.12-compatible (GQbist is found in GIMP). For instance, it can read and write QBE files with a nonstandard number of transformations. Sometimes the generated image looks different or even completely wrong. I haven't figured out why; maybe the GQbist optimizer is doing something funny.