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chdslv

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[SOLVED]Thunar doesn't show xbm images as thumbnails

Thunar doesn't show .xbm images as thumbnails. How to enable it?

Last edited by chdslv (2021-04-21 09:22:07)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED]Thunar doesn't show xbm images as thumbnails

The gdk-pixbuf thumbnailer is supposed to provide xmb thumbnails:

$ xdg-mime query filetype circles.xbm 
image/x-xbitmap

$ fgrep -ri bitmap /usr/share/thumbnailers/ | awk -F':' '{print $1}'
/usr/share/thumbnailers/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.thumbnailer

... but it doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure if the issue is with tumbler or with gdk-pixbuf.

Assuming tumbler version at least 0.2.0, you could create a desktop thumbnailer file and grant it highest priority - this will make it work. To do so:

1. Create the file /usr/share/thumbnailers/xbm.thumbnailer with the following content:

   [Thumbnailer Entry]
   Version=1.0
   Encoding=UTF-8
   Type=X-Thumbnailer
   Name=xbm Thumbnailer
   MimeType=image/x-xbitmap;
   Exec=/usr/bin/convert -thumbnail %s %i %o

   ...note that the imagemagick package needs to be installed for the convert command.

2. Copy /etc/xdg/tumbler/tumbler.rc to ~/.config/tumbler (create the directory if it doesn't exist)

3. Change the priority the "DesktopThumbnailer" entry to 3 (so it looks like):

   # thumbnailers provided by .thumbnailer desktop files
   [DesktopThumbnailer]
   Disabled=false
   Priority=3
   Locations=
   Excludes=
   MaxFileSize=2147483648

4. You need to restart tumbler and thunar - probably easiest to log out and back in again.

To properly fix this, you might want to start with a tumbler bug report but it might be an issue with gdk-pixbuf.

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chdslv

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Re: [SOLVED]Thunar doesn't show xbm images as thumbnails

Thanks. I did all that, but it didn't work.
This is Arch Linux and the system is Openbox. But, on XFCE too xbm files couldn't be seen, bug reports had been placed.

Last edited by chdslv (2021-04-20 13:45:06)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED]Thunar doesn't show xbm images as thumbnails

Thanks. I did all that, but it didn't work.
This is Arch Linux and the system is Openbox. But, on XFCE too xbm files couldn't be seen, bug reports had been placed.

I did all my testing on Arch linux and it does work. As a sanity check, can you post back the following:

xdg-mime query filetype FILE.xbm

...where "FILE.xbm" is the name of the xbm file.

cat /usr/share/thumbnailers/xbm.thumbnailer

cat ~/.config/tumbler/tumbler.rc

which convert

ps -ef | grep tumblerd

Also maybe reboot just to be sure (some Xfce processes remaining running if you just log out.

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chdslv

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Re: [SOLVED]Thunar doesn't show xbm images as thumbnails

I got it working, thanks!
Reinstalled tumbler and gdk-pixbuf2. https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/tumbler/-/ … note_30616

Last edited by chdslv (2021-04-21 09:24:20)