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
It could be that the .thumbnails is getting too big, too many stale
thumbnails.
Also check your Thunar settings: Edit -> Preferences -> Display -> Show
Thumbnails.
-Ed
I tried xfdesktop --reload
Nothing changed.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
