What app actively creates thumbnails?
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fpd
What app actively creates thumbnails?
Does anyone know what app actively creates the thumbnails seen when viewing files in "icon" view and the small icons in "list" view? Mine stopped creating thumbnails, so all I see is the standard "no thumbnail" thumbnail. Thank you!
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Pilosopong Tasyo
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Re: What app actively creates thumbnails?
That would be your file browser (i.e., Nautilus for the Gnome edition). You may have to clean out the thumbnail cache folder. Also, check your Nautilus preferences. You could have set it not to generate any thumbnails....what app actively creates the thumbnails seen when viewing files in "icon" view and the small icons in "list" view...
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fpd
Re: What app actively creates thumbnails?
Could not find, in Nautilus, any way to (not) create thumbnails of files (images, PDFs, text).
I cleared out the thumbnail "cache" ($home/.thumbnails/...)
Anyone wants to look at "top" while their system is creating thumbnails, and let me know what (image making) processes are running, that would make me happy...
I cleared out the thumbnail "cache" ($home/.thumbnails/...)
Anyone wants to look at "top" while their system is creating thumbnails, and let me know what (image making) processes are running, that would make me happy...
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conslie
Re: What app actively creates thumbnails?
If you want no thumbnails at all, within Nautilus, go to Edit-> Preferences->Preview and set the choices there to 'Never.'
Have fun!
Have fun!
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fpd
Re: What app actively creates thumbnails?
Thank you for the clue... I verified modification of preferences (Nautilus >> Edit >> Prefs) indeed worked by changing the viewable meta data for files and seeing the change immediately. "Preview" was set to "Local Only" (and still is), as "Always" had no effect on thumbnail visibility.
"man -k thumbnail" showed evince-thumbnailer... so I found "evince-thumbnailer -s" running (using "top -u me" and then "ps ax | grep evince") and creating a temporary file in /tmp entitled; .gnome_desktop_thumbnail.XXXXXX. The XXXXXX value keeps changing (using ls -la /tmp) so evince-thumbnailer constantly creates thumbnails, but the thumbnails are not stored in the standard location; $home/.thumbnails/(etc.).
"$home/.thumbnails" and all subdirectories are owned by me.
"evince-thumbnailer" is owned by me.
I moved ".thumbnails/" to ".thumbnailsORG/" and immediately, a new ".thumbnails/" was created (with me:me as the owner:group) with "fail" and "normal" subdirectories (I added "large" and chmod it to 700 to mimic the other two in the folder).
On a "working" LM9 (a system that makes the thumbnails right), evince-thumbnailer runs until all the files are "thumbnailed" and then quits. I verified this with "top -u me" and "ps ax | grep evince".
I'm still stumped... Thank you for your ideas!
"man -k thumbnail" showed evince-thumbnailer... so I found "evince-thumbnailer -s" running (using "top -u me" and then "ps ax | grep evince") and creating a temporary file in /tmp entitled; .gnome_desktop_thumbnail.XXXXXX. The XXXXXX value keeps changing (using ls -la /tmp) so evince-thumbnailer constantly creates thumbnails, but the thumbnails are not stored in the standard location; $home/.thumbnails/(etc.).
"$home/.thumbnails" and all subdirectories are owned by me.
"evince-thumbnailer" is owned by me.
I moved ".thumbnails/" to ".thumbnailsORG/" and immediately, a new ".thumbnails/" was created (with me:me as the owner:group) with "fail" and "normal" subdirectories (I added "large" and chmod it to 700 to mimic the other two in the folder).
On a "working" LM9 (a system that makes the thumbnails right), evince-thumbnailer runs until all the files are "thumbnailed" and then quits. I verified this with "top -u me" and "ps ax | grep evince".
I'm still stumped... Thank you for your ideas!