Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures/videos/PDF's, Used to help in recognizing and organizing them.
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Questions tagged [thumbnails]
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how to stop saving thumbnails in ~/.thumbnails
File manager keeps thumbnails in ~/.thumbnails even after the original photo is deleted.
It's really annoying and I feel like it's insecure if some one can see a photo that I've deleted. I want this folder to be clear. I don't mind if it takes time…
Srinesh
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How to make videos show thumbnail in ubuntu 13.04?
I have ubuntu 13.04 and many of my videos do not show thumbnails whereas some do, they are all Mp4 formats including the ones that do show thumbnails.
Is there a way to make all videos show thumbnails?
The ones that do show them were on my old…
UbuntuFan
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command line thumbnailing
I have a whole folder of photos I want to look at as thumbnails, and I'd like to do it by calling one of GNOME's native thumbnailers individually, namely totem-video-thumbnailer or evince-thumbnailer, and piping them through a backend (I hear…
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What is the purpose of the 00000000000000000000000000000000.png folder in ~/.thumbnails?
I see ~/.thumbnails/large/00000000000000000000000000000000.png/ and ~/.thumbnails/normal/00000000000000000000000000000000.png/ in Lubuntu 13.04. Both folders have been empty whenever I looked. So what is their purpose? Or, under what conditions…
user25656
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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 -thumbnail 100 $i thumbs/$i
done
However, there two…
Duby
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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 still, no thumbails.
I was having problems with…
user70988
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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 version 0.3.1, but nothing.
Any ideas?
Paolo
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Thumbnail Previewer not working for Large Images
I have over 500 images downloaded from Shutterstock so they are very large images, some over 10MB. Ubuntu will not show the thumbnail for anything above that file size. Is this a compiz settings issue or unity tweak, or something else?
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How can I make 18.04 show thumbnails?
I did upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04, and now no thumbnails, so I must open an image to see what it is! I don't know what the new 18.04 windowmanager/desktopmanager/filemanager exactly are, and which ones are the same with different names,or vice…
Jaha
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Ubuntu 18.04 not showing thumbnails for audio and pdf files
I chose minimum installation at the beginning and after that I have installed ffmpeg Thumbnailer and tried sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.cache/thumbnails and clearing the thumbnails folder but still thumbnails not visible.
rd17
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No thumbnails preview
I have installed ubuntu 18.10 and have no thumbnails preview for any file, such as it was in previous version. In preferences the setting is on "show preview" for all files...Any ideas someone?
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How to set default folder view to “list”, in Ubuntu
How to set default folder view to “list”, in Ubuntu, with no icons, slows big directories, such as my photos?
Thanks in advance.
Don Lopez
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Retrieve thumbnail for a given file
Is there a command to get the (possibly cached) thumbnail for a given file? As in, the same way the file manager does it? Answers can be for gnome, lxde, kde, it doesn't matter.
Props for a command line tool but an API would be fine too.
The specs…
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Ubuntu 18.04 iPhone thumbnails
Apple iPhone SE with version 10.3.1.
I plug my iPhone in and press the "Trust" button on the iPhone screen. I browse to my iPhone and switch to thumbnail view. All I see is the generic "tree" thumbnail image for photos, and the generic "video reel"…
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