On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:08:59 -0700 Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just tried displaying a JPEG file with ristretto. Rather than > popping up right away, there was a delay of 30 seconds or so before > the image finally appeared. Running ps, I found a process called > tumblerd, which appeared to be consuming system resources. A bit of > web searching revealed that other people have had trouble with this > too. > > Looking for a description of tumbler, I found the following: > "Tumbler is a D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails > for various URI schemes and MIME types." OK, my eyes are glazed > over now. In practical terms, what does this mean? Is it anything > to do with the thumbnails I see in thunar? Or is it something > unrelated - and should I care? > > When I ask to see a picture, I don't want my machine running off > and doing God knows what behind my back. I'll leave that kind of > behaviour to Windows vict^H^H^H^Husers. > > Is there any reason I shouldn't remove or disable this package? > Do you want thumbnails? I'd guess it will depend on how many pictures are in the directory. Ristretto has a sidebar containing the thumbnails for the entire directory, though possibly they are only created once, the first time ristretto sees that directory and then cached, I don't know. I use Eye of Gnome (ah, one I forgot to mention earlier among the Gnome applications I use) and there are several other viewers. -- Joe
