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I have many small text files, and want Nautilus to show previews in the icon thumbnail.

Left is my current situation, right is what I want.

Nautilus thumbnails text preview

How to achieve that on Ubuntu 15.10?

My current Nautilus settings: Nautilus preview settings

If an official solution is not available, workarounds/hacks are accepted too.

Nicolas Raoul
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  • Tried the opposite of http://askubuntu.com/a/368252/158442? – muru Feb 22 '16 at 08:18
  • retracted my dupe vote, since it does not automatically set the icons, but it might be helpful. http://askubuntu.com/questions/558846/generate-thumbnails-for-text – Jacob Vlijm Feb 22 '16 at 08:31
  • As my answer says, the feature has been removed. I don't know what more you expect to find out. – muru Feb 22 '16 at 09:00

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According to this Nemo issue, this feature was removed in GTK itself.

GTK commit: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/gtk/gtkicontheme.c?id=aa44c0ca53b8d32c9bf3114b53ce4983ec05e86e

Reason cited by GTK:

GtkIconTheme: Drop the code for parsing .icon files
Modern icon themes don't ship .icon files anyway.

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