On 3/27/23 10:54, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 3/27/23 10:44, King Beowulf wrote:
On 3/27/23 09:00, Dick Steffens wrote:
Normally, image files on my desktop, or some Thunar windows, display a
thumbnail of that image. Now, I get an icon with the letters GIF or JPG
instead. I can fix the problem by restarting the machine, but shouldn't
there be a way to fix it without restarting? It's not true for all
directories, but other than the fact that the ones where a thumbnail is
displayed are very old directories, I can't explain why.
I've tried searching for solutions with DDG. Most of them aren't for
Xubuntu 20.04 or Xfce, but many also say to fix it, restart the
machine,
which is what I'm trying to avoid.
Any ideas how to do this without restarting the machine?
In Xfce you can try deleting $HOME/.thumbnails and then running
$ xfdesktop --reload
Nothing changed.
It could be that the .thumbnails is getting too big, too many stale
thumbnails.
.thumbnails is empty.
Also check your Thunar settings: Edit -> Preferences -> Display -> Show
Thumbnails.
Set for Local Files Only.
I did a restart and the problem is fixed.
The problem doesn't come up too often, and I can live without seeing the
thumbnails for a while, so I'll get along with having to restart for
now. But that doesn't seem to me to be the Linux way, so some day I'd
like to learn if there is a way to fix it that I can get at without a
restart.
Thanks to you and Rich for your ideas.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
