Thunar: disable thumbnails just for PDFs

[Alex]

Am 30.11.19 um 11:05 schrieb 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,
>
Thanks, though still no success with "libpoppler-glib8" ..possibly
something else as well missing :-\

Cheers,

Alex