Thunar: disable thumbnails just for PDFs

[Olivier Duchateau]

Le Sat, 30 Nov 2019 00:14:50 +0100,
Alex <acs82 at gmx.de> a écrit :

> Am 29.11.19 um 23:38 schrieb Alex:
> > Am 29.11.19 um 22:56 schrieb Olivier Duchateau:
> >> Le Fri, 29 Nov 2019 22:30:08 +0100,
> >> Alex <acs82 at gmx.de> a écrit :
> >>
> >>> Hi Lorenzo,
> >>>
> >>> in xfce tumbler is the service which provides thumbnails for
> >>> thunar ... however actually I dont get any pdf thumbnails on my
> >>> system. The default "tumbler.rc" seems not to mention a pdf
> >>> thumbnailer plugin, nor does the Wiki:
> >>> https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/tumbler
> >>>
> >>> My guess would be that you are just using a different thumbnailer
> >>> (evince?), which supports pdf thumbnailing. Removing it, and
> >>> clearing .cache/thumbnails hopefully should help.
> >>> (Or your distro provides some special tumbler plugin for pdf's
> >>> ... in that case I would like to add it to the tumbler wiki :-) )
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Alexander Schwinn
> >>>
> >>> Am 29.11.19 um 09:42 schrieb Lorenzo Sutton:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> While I find thumbnails handy for image file types, I actually
> >>>> find them a distracting for PDFs as I'm mostly using detailed
> >>>> list view.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a way to fine-tune for which filetypes previews are
> >>>> shown?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>> Lorenzo.
> >> Tumbler supports PDF thumbnails through poppler.
> >>
> > Good to know that ... though I cant get it to work.
> >
> > Installed "poppler-utils", browsed git and found that there is  the
> > plugin "poppler-thumbnailer".
> >
> > Copied /etc/xdg/tumbler/tumbler.r  to $HOME/.config/tumbler and
> > added poppler to it (no Idea if thats the correct plugin name) :
> >
> > [PopplerThumbnailer]
> > Disabled=false
> > Priority=4
> > Locations=
> > MaxFileSize=209715200
> >
> > Killed tumblerd and restarted thunar daemon  .... nothing.  Help is
> > welcome !
> >
> > Is there any doc around on how to use it ? We really need such doc
> > in the wiki, otherwise nobody will know that such plugins even
> > exist (as well for the other tumbler plugins)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alexander Schwinn
> >
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> 
> Ops, just saw that tumbler.r already had an entry for
> PopplerThumbnailer at the very bottom .. though still does not work
> for me. :-\
> 
> I just added an overview on available thumbnailers / supported formats
> to the Wiki: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/tumbler
> 
> If anybody knows more details (supported formats, required packages ),
> please fill all the gaps I left !
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex
> 
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Pdf thumbnailer, requires poppler-glib (not poppler-utils).

Regards,

-- 
olivier