[SOLVED] Not getting thumbnails in Mate

Ron · 2023-12-24 04:25:56

I installed Crowz/Devuan 5 and put Mate on it. I'm not getting any thumbnails on any type of files, pictures, videos, or pdfs. I never had this problem before. I did a search and read that I might need compiz? Does that sound right? Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by Ron (2023-12-24 22:17:08)

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn · 2023-12-24 06:07:21

IIRC Mate uses caja

see if this gives any insight:
ttps://askubuntu.com/questions/1368910/how-to-create-custom-thumbnailers-for-nautilus-nemo-and-caja
(yes, dropped the h on purpose)

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Ron · 2023-12-24 11:43:44

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn wrote:

see if this gives any insight:

I owe you a beer. Installing libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin did the trick. Thanks again.

Last edited by Ron (2023-12-24 11:44:40)

Ron · 2023-12-24 21:59:00

Well, as it turns out, libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin generates thumbnails for images and pdfs, but not video files, so this issue is only partial solved. Anyone have any idea what I need for video thumbnails?

EDIT
Okay, that was easy. ffmpegthumbnailer did the trick.

Last edited by Ron (2023-12-24 22:14:44)

hunter0one · 2023-12-24 22:12:47

ffmpegthumbnailer is what I have installed and get thumbnails in Caja.

Ron · 2023-12-24 22:15:40

I found it just as you were responding.

greenjeans · 2023-12-25 23:03:14

On another note, I get thumbnails for everything in Mate except for when I attach my digital camera via cable, as opposed to just taking out the memory card and using the reader which gives me thumbnails just fine.

Problem is my machine is old and the contacts in the media card reader are declining in quality giving me repeated dropouts as i'm trying to work with the contents.

Cam/cord to machine works fine, but no thumbnails so I can't see the pics i'm working with until I copy them to my pics folder. Tried settings in caja with no joy, wondering if i need some gphoto package I don't have?

Ron · 2023-12-26 12:42:55

greenjeans wrote:

On another note, I get thumbnails for everything in Mate except for when I attach my digital camera via cable,

When connecting my cell phone (yes, I have one and I hate it) I don't get any thumbnails either. I wish I knew what to install for it, if anything.

Last edited by Ron (2023-12-26 12:48:58)

greenjeans · 2023-12-26 18:20:31

Haven't checked phone, will do so. Only found one other reference to this behavior (MATE-specific) and it went unanswered: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=395817

And one in Ubuntu using Thunar, also unanswered: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1779571

I tried gphotofs which had worked for me in the past, but still no luck.

Wonder if there's some setting in one of the polkits that changed that's doing this?

ETA: Okay, changed my search term on this issue from "camera" to "phone" and got multiple hits, apparently a lot of people are having this problem since just the last two years or so. And all these hits are coming from Mint and Ubuntu mostly, so something upstream from Debian likely changed?

Last edited by greenjeans (2023-12-26 18:44:36)

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