Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures/videos/PDF's, Used to help in recognizing and organizing them.
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No thumbnails in Gimp in Xubuntu 13.04
it seems that in Xubuntu 13.04 there is no thumbnails file in .cache. But some programs, like Gimp, rely on that file to show thumbnails in their file opening dialogs. These dialogs now just show ...
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How do I turn off thumbnails for pdf files?
When I open org.gnome.desktop.thumbnailers using dconf-editor, I see this:
Schema: `org.gnome.desktop.thumbnailers`
Summary: List of mime-types for which external thumbnailer programs will ...
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How can I assign custom icons to folders persistently?
Windows Explorer doesn't stand a chance vs Nautilus for so many obvious reasons.
But there is a thing I don't understand. How did windows manage to write the icon on a folder so that the icon ...
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Thumbnails (Nautilus previews) for “basic” (xpm, png, bmp, gif) image files
Nautilus was not generating thumbnails for some xpm files I had, so I tried to investigate who was responsible for generating thumbnails for xpm files (if any), or any image for that matter. And I ...
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Custom thumbnailers don't work in GNOME
I wanted to have .chm and .epub files thumbnailed in Nautilus. I followed instructions presented here: http://askubuntu.com/a/266323/119832 with no effect. Provided thumbnailers and their installation ...
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How do I enable thumbnails for text files in nautilus?
I used to have thumbnails for text files in Nautilus but I don't have them anymore. I'm on Ubuntu 12.10, I haven't disabled them as per How to stop Nautilus from creating thumbnails of specific file ...
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What additional thumbnailers are available and how do I install them?
Question:
Ubuntu's file manager, Nautilus, comes with a wide support for file previews. These thumbnails are handled by helper programs called thumbnailers.
The number of thumbnailers that come ...
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12.04 LTS - Display RAW thumbnails in “open file” dialogs, also in explorers. How?
Been looking for an answer to this here and in Google for two days. Must have read dozens of articles and posts and tried most anything that seemed viable. I have installed gnome-raw-thumbnailer, ...
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Thunar not displaying thumbnails for text files
I have gone through all other posts on thunar thumbnailing issue but this one doesn't seem to match any of those; nor on the web anyone seems to have this problem, so I couldn't find solution on ...
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What Does Totem's Thumbnailer Do with MP3s?
I copied a ton of MP3s onto a USB stick tonight and noticed:
I couldn't umount because totem-video-thumbnailer was busy processing the MP3s and
Each file was taking forever to process and
No network ...
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How to get thumbnails for Hi10p videos?
Does anybody know how get thumbnails for Hi10p videos?
I've tried installing the most recent versions of VLC and ffmpeg but neither work for this purpose.
Solution
I managed to find the answers ...
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Why thumbnails have a white frame around them?
I would rather have thumbnails without this ugly white box. But I can't find any way to remove it...
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Thunar Disable video Thumbnails only
Is there a way in Thunar (within XFCE) to disable displaying of Video thumbnails only and still allow Picture thumbnails?
I found this thread:
Show me only picture thumbnails
But that is for ...
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Images are not showing as thumbnails in dash in Ubuntu 12.10
Previously I assumed this simply wasn't an included functionality but on watching an Ubuntu 12.10 review from October it's clear that you should see image thumbnails in dash. However, my images are ...
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Creating thumbnails with the same name as the pictures
Please, here is my little code for creating thumbnails of pictures saved in a folder named 'pictures', and saving them in another folder named 'thumbs'.
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.jpg
do
convert ...
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All video thumbnails fail to be generated
Not a single video thumbnail is being generated and shown in Nautilus. The folder ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/ keeps getting filled for all of them.
I tried removing all the ...
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Why I can't see the thumbnails in Nautilus?
Problem Loading Thumb Previews:
This started to happen after upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10.
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How can i show the thumbnails of workspaces so they don't autohide? (Gnome3)
in my Gnome3-Desktop i have installed 2 screens and when i press the overview of the opened windows and a thumbnail of the workspaces show up. I like that behaviour and installed gnome3 on my laptop, ...
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How do I limit thumbnails size and life time?
how to limit thumbnails life time(maximum_age) and size(maximum_size) in ubuntu 12.04 with dconf? Or should I install gconf-editor to do this?
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How can I instruct Nautilus to pre-generate thumbnails?
I have a large library of PDF documents (papers, lectures, handouts) that I want to be able to quickly navigate through. For that I need thumbnails.
At the same time however, I see that the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 : No video, image thumbnails after repairing partitions
I recently ran into some problem that required I use Boot Repair to repair partitions. That worked fine but I cannot view any thumbnails anymore, all video and image files just show standard icons.
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Prevent Nautilus from generating thumbnails for video files larger than 5 MB?
If I set in Nautilus preferences that it should generate thumbnail previews only for files larger than 10 MB, then this only works for pictures.
Nautilus still keeps generating thumbnails for videos ...
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How can I stop Nautilus from caching thumbnails?
In Nautilus, I want to see thumbnails on the fly, but I don't want them to be cached. Any way to do this?
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Is text and ogg file thumbnailing available outside of Nautilus?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 and in Nautilus I can see thumbnails of several files including ogg (with embedded artwork) and text files, just like in this screenshot:
It's a nice feature.
I can't see ogg ...
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How to get bigger photos' thumbnails in Nautilus?
Today I wanted to go through my photos collection but I have realised that it is quite difficult to go through thumbnails in Nautilus as it is using the free space in the window very inefficiently, ...
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Some thumbnail previews not displaying [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can’t generate video thumbnails in Nautilus [Ubuntu 12.04]
I'm running 12.04 and have noticed that the only thing that displays a thumbnail preview are image files and ...
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How to add space to Exec path in a Thumbnailer descrption?
I wish to use mplayer to generate thumbnails for nautilus, so I wrote a perl script as the thumbnailer named "gnome_thumbnailer_with_mplayer", and wrote a description in /usr/share/thumbnailers to ...
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How to view apk icons in Nautilus?
I want to view .apk (android apps) on Nautilus. There's already a solution for Windows e.g. apkshellext but it's not supported for Linux or Ubuntu. So, how can I view apk icon in thumbnail on Ubuntu?
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Gnome 3 not displaying thumbnails?
I'm running 12.04 LTS and I can't seem to see any thumbnails for pictures, videos, anything. I have checked my preferences "Show Thumbnails, Always, files under 10MB, Local Only" which makes sense but ...
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Application switcher's (compiz) thumbnails not working in ubuntu 12.04
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I somehow cannot get compiz effects to work. especially application switcher's thumbnails - I only get the icons and I think that changing the options do not ...
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Can't generate thumbnails in Nautilus
Before I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, thumbnails on video files worked nicely, after the upgrade, thumbnails aren't generating on video files and only on video files, most of them are .mkv files. I have ...
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Is it possible to preview arbitrary formats in Nautilus?
I recently found out that Nautilus (Ubuntu 12.04 at least) can show thumbnails of files of non-image formats, for example (data grapher) grace files (.agr) shows a small version of the graph contained ...
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No thumbnails on almost all lenses
i experienced this problem after i re-installed many packages on my ubuntu 12.04 after the installation of Google Earth 6.2, i was realized that the Time and Weather Lens, Video Lens, Graphic Design ...
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Thunar not showing thumbnails in Openbox
I am using openbox 3.5 and my file manager of choice is Thunar but the problem I am facing is thunar not showing thumbnails for folder,video files etc.
My Thunar:
You can see in the above image ...
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How does thumbnail preview in Ubuntu differ from that of Windows?
I thought this question might get a better response in AskUbuntu, as it seems to have more to do with Ubuntu than Windows at a glance.
Let's say I have a foo.mkv file. Thumbnail previews work in ...
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Some videos have no thumbnail?
I just downloaded a video series and opened the videos folder to find that some of the videos have thumbnails and some do not. How can I force the others to generate thumbnails?
I have tried playing ...
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Way to make video-thumbnails generate from VLC instead of Totem?
I'm suffering from problem that video-thumbnails do not appear in nautilus for some video files. I just found this bug typefinding: some mpeg files are not identified as mpeg files which seems to ...
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thumbnail from ogg-vorbis coverart
In ubuntu 12.04, what is the command used by gnome to create a thumbnail from the album art found embedded in a ogg-vorbis file?
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How can I enable thumbnails on Xubuntu desktop?
I can't see any thumbnails on my desktop. If I use Thurnar directly and browse to the desktop, thumbnails of PDf, JPG and ODT are displayed, but on my desktop its just plain.
How can I fix that? I'm ...
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How to stop Nautilus from creating thumbnails of specific file types?
I'm trying to stop Nautilus from creating thumbnails of PDF files. In another thread on 'Ubuntu forums' someone said to open gconf-editor and disable the PDF entry in the '/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers' ...
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Show me only picture thumbnails
Is it possible in nautilus that it shows thumbnails only for pictures and for all others like videos, pdfs, etc thumbnails are disabled?
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How to enable thumbnails for flac files in Nautilus?
Somehow I managed it to get thumbnails for flac audio files, which have covers included in their tags, to show up in Ubuntu version 11.10. But since I reinstalled for Ubuntu 12.04, they don't show up ...
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Why is Nautilus listing so slow when showing thumbnails?
I have a folder with thousands of photo on it.
Every time I enter the folder (even in the same Gnome session) Nautilus start showing the icons (thumbnails) for that folder but the listing is very ...
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Thumbnails for certain formats not appearing in Nautilus
The following formats do not have an icon in Nautilus:
.odt
.odb
And, some of my older documents are missing their thumbnails, all of which are either .odt or .odp.
I just purged and reinstalled ...
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How large can Nautilus's thumbnail cache grow?
Nautilus's thumbnail cache in ~/.thumbnails has grown to several hundred megabytes.
Do I need to be concerned about unrestricted growth of this in the long term, or is its size automatically managed ...
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How can I pre-cache image thumbnails? [duplicate]
I have several frequently-updated folders that contain thousands of high resolution JPGs. The first time I browse into any of them, it takes a long time for Nautilus to generate all the thumbnails.
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Prevent Nautilus from displaying thumbnails on a specific mount
I have written a filesystem over Fuse to access a remote pseudo-NAS (the French "Freebox V6", I'll soon publish it as GPL3... when it's a little bit more polished!).
The NAS is connected to a home ...
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ooo-thumbnailer doesn't work
I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed on 3 different PCs and ooo-thumbnailer doesn't work on any of them.
I don't know how to get it work -- I've tried to uninstall and reinstall, I've tried to update it to ...
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How to make mht files being seen as thumbnails in nautilus?
How to make mht files being see as thumbnails in nautilus?
Nautilus can see html files thumbnails, that give a hope there is a way to do its with mht.
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How do I enlarge “Icon & Thumbnail” size in nautilus 3.x?
I used to be able to set my icon/thumbnail size to 128 px using gconf-editor in previous versions of Ubuntu. Is there a tweak to enable larger icons/thumbnails in nautilus 3.x?
