Questions tagged [thumbnails]
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Generate and move thumbnails recursively
I want a bash script which does the following:
Find pictures (jpg,jpeg,JPG,JPEG) recursively from current directory downwards
Generate a thumbnail with imagemagick's convert
Move thumbnail to other directory
My current script looks like this:
for…
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How to get larger thumbnails in dolphin
How can I increase the maximal size (when enlarging them with Ctrl +) and resolution of thumbnails in dolphin? If not, is there any other file manager which supports larger thumbnails than dolphin to preview pdf's and djvu's?
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Nemo: How can I fix 'A Problem has been detected with your thumbnail cache'?
I'm repeatedly seeing this message in nemo, despite clicking Fix now each time. I'd like to know if there's something I can do to fix the thumbnail cache once and for all.
A bug is filed for when the thumbnail directories are symlinked to /tmp, but…
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Display Thumbnails In Icon View But Not In Compact View
I use the Nemo file manager on Linux Mint 19 Tara. Usually I only work with the compact view without thumbnails (see image A), but occasionally I switch to icon view with thumbnails (see image B).
To switch from A to B I have to
Open the…
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Use default application as file thumbnail in Mint's file browser
In Mint's default file browser (which is Nemo, as far as I know), I'd like to set the icon of the default application for a certain file type as the thumbnail for all files of this file type. For example I'd like all .odt files to have the icon of…
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Is there an approach to have feh --thumbnails do not display filename?
I have many pictures which are screen shots created from shutter and downloaded from web. These pictures have long file names. When I create thumbnails on these pictures via feh -t, these long file name will prevent feh to display many pictures in…
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How to get JPEG thumbnails quickly
My camera is very basic (understatement), but it does have one notable feature: its thumbnail mode is impressively fast; it loads a screenful of 9 thumbnails in less than a quarter of a second.
Now, when I select an image, it first instantly loads…
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How to force thumbnail refresh in PCmanFM
How can I force pcmanfm to refresh its thumbnails. I have a directory of photos in JPG format, (taken with iphone). I have rotated some of these using Ubuntu Image Viewer. When I rotate the image the thumbnail does not update. How can I force it to…
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How do I query individual thumbnail-namespace attributes with the gio command?
The gio shell command replaces the gvfs- suite for working with local and remote files on Gnome systems, using Gio over the Gvfs backend. For the most part it's quite effective, but I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding its tools for…
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How to remove the thumbnail frame in Nautilus?
I mean the gray border around thumbnails in icon view.
The file thumbnail_frame.png is not present in /usr/share/pixmaps/, not even a nautilus folder.
I have Ubuntu Gnome 17.04.
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Extract the thumbnail which is shown in Caja from a video
When I go to a folder with a video file in (flv, mp4, for example) in Caja, which is my File Explorer program in my version of Linux (Mint MATE), it has a little thumbnail graphic.
Where does this come from? Is it stored in the video's…
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Raw thumbnail working in Thunar but not in Nautilus
I am using Arch with Gnome 3. I installed raw-thumbnailer using pacman and got raw thumbnails working in Thunar. I thought installing raw-thumbnailer will also make Nautilus to show raw thumbnails. But nautilus is not showing raw thumbnails. How can…
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Is is possible to store Nautilus' thumbnails along with the original files?
By default Nautilus stores thumbnails in ~/.cache/thumbnails folder. It has many advantages, but one place it doesn't work well is with network shares full of multimedia accessed by WiFi by several clients.
It would be much better to let the file…
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troubleshoot nautilus thumbnails on SMB share
I need some help understanding how the thumbnail process works with Gnome Nautilus. I am running Gnome 43.2 with nautilus 43.1 on Manjaro Linux.
Other computers show file thumbnails just fine on my home server (debian) shares. This one - a recent…
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How to generate thumbnails/previews for files?
I wrote an app for Windows and macOS and I am in the process of porting it to Linux. My app has a file browser implemented and can display thumbnails or document icons of files.
On Windows I get access to the file thumbnails (or document icons if…
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