[SOLVED} nautilus 3.6 no thumbnails

Hi, I've suddenly got no thumbnails at all in Nautilus. No clue what changed, but they were there earlier in the day. Any ideas?
Edit: I deleted ~/.cache/thumbnails, which also had the wrong permissions.
Last edited by oboedad55 (2012-11-30 04:06:47)

I found the solution:
The applications.menu in ~/.config/menus/ was empty. I copied the application.menu from /etc/xdg/menus/ to the .config-file. Now, everything works fine.

Similar Messages

  • [SOLVED]Nautilus not "zooming" video thumbnails

    Hi!
    When i set Nautilus to more than 100% "zoom", the icons of video files get bigger but the thumbnails drawn on them stay the same size, so the video files look like a big white rectangle with a small (regular sized) thumbnail in the middle of it.
    Setting Nautilus to less than 100% zoom has video thumbnauls scale down correctly. Inside the .thumbnails folders, the png's belonging to videos and other files look both ok and exactly the same way, but the ploblem only occurs with actual video files.
    I noticed, that pictures in big folders first show the same way, shortly after the thumbnails are generated - but they are shown appropriately after a few seconds and video file icons stay that way permanently no matter what.
    Any idea how to solve that? thx!
    Last edited by whoops (2009-03-23 16:40:35)

    Found inside: abs/extra/libgnomeui
    File: gnome-thumbnail.c
    changed:
      size = 128;
      if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGE)
        size = 256;
    ...to:
      size = 256;
      if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGE)
        size = 256;
    compiled, restarted nautilus: WORKING FINE NOW
    But i don't think this is like it's supposed to be (and I've got no idea what else I changed by doubling that value). So, whatever that part I altered does - shouldn't there be something like...:
      size = 128;
      if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGE)
        size = 256;
      if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGEST)
        size = 512;
    or something?
    Well, I've got got big thumbnailed video icons again, so I'll leave all the sourcecode I don't understand alone for a while now. I'm not marking this thread as "solved" yet, as the method I used to get where I want is most likely very, very, very wrong.
    (edit: jupp, still working after reboot. source messy, thumbnails big, me happy. )
    Last edited by whoops (2009-03-22 16:44:43)

  • [solved] nautilus and missing thumbnail

    hi to everybody,
    i have a little problem: i can't have working thumbnail preview of video file
    pdfs and images works
    i try to fix the issue with this script:
    #!/bin/bash
    VIDEO_EXTENSIONS="video@flv video@webm video@mkv video@mp4 video@mpeg \
    video@avi video@ogg video@quicktime video@x-avi video@x-flv video@x-mp4 \
    video@x-mpeg video@x-webm video@x-mkv application@x-extension-webm \
    video@x-matroska video@x-ms-wmv video@x-msvideo video@x-msvideo@avi \
    video@x-theora@ogg video@x-theora@ogv video@x-ms-asf video@x-m4v"
    THUMBNAIL_COMMAND="/usr/bin/ffmpegthumbnailer -s %s -i %i -o %o -c png -f -t 10"
    for i in $VIDEO_EXTENSIONS; do
    gconftool-2 -s "/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/$i/command" -t string "$THUMBNAIL_COMMAND"
    gconftool-2 -s "/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/$i/enable" -t boolean 'true'
    done
    but anything is changed .....
    any tips ? i need help !
    thanks
    EDIT: i have latest software from repo (not testing s) also ffmpegthumbnailer and tumbler
    Last edited by nTia89 (2011-08-19 16:25:56)

    solved with an AUR package:
    https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49555
    installed, rebooted and nautilus magically have video thumbnail..... gnome3 isn't enough mature

  • [SOLVED] Nautilus video thumbnails

    Hi everyone! I want to generate video thumbnails with ffmpegthumbnailer in nautilus. I know i can do it by setting a command in the /gnome/thumbnailer section of gconf but i dont have keys for video thumbnails. There is only keys for fonts. Is there any way to add those video keys?
    I done this once in ubuntu but now i dont want to install totem.
    Thanks.
    Last edited by Hyugga (2010-04-12 01:33:03)

    For movies I use the imdb-thumbnailer tool (it's in AUR). If I look in the source for the code that registers the thumbnailer, I find this:
    for i in $video_extensions; do
    gconftool-2 -s "/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/$i"/command -t string '$THUMBNAIL_COMMAND
    gconftool-2 -s "/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/$i"/enable -t boolean 'true'
    done
    Search google for the thumbnail command and google for the list of extensions.
    Good luck!

  • [Solved] Nautilus bookmarks - Gnome Shell Doesn't Start

    Hi there.
    I've tried to search and have been scratching my head by what probably has a really simple solution but I have not found it so far.
    I've made a fresh install of Arch, system is up to date, with Gnome 3 (shell and whatnot).
    I've set my locale in /etc/rc.conf to pt_BR and have properly generated locales.
    $ locale -a
    C
    en_US
    en_US.iso88591
    en_US.utf8
    POSIX
    pt_BR
    pt_BR.iso88591
    pt_BR.utf8
    Gnome is localized to pt_BR
    Everything is fine and dandy except for a really annoying thing.
    xdg-user-dirs-update
    Creates folders with incorrect characters when viewed on Nautilus (but appear correct on Nautilus sidebar).
    I tried editing the .config/user-dirs.dirs file with gedit, it showed the wrong characters but allowed me to write the correct ones. Saved it and ran xdg-user-dis-update, the output is borked characters. Tried editing it in nano, same results.
    I've managed to manually delete and create the correct folders using
    xdg-user-dirs-update --set MUSIC /home/$USER/Foldername
    but, while it displays properly on nautilus when navigating, it doesn't display properly on the sidebar.
    I'm linking to a screenshot so it is easier to understand. The music folder should read "Músicas". You can see I'm inside the Videos folder but the sidebar name doesn't match the folder name.
    http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/qq25 … _issue.jpg
    Any ideas?
    EDIT: After this post, I rebooted and gnome shell would no longer start - at all. I would get it to log in and display the wallpaper but that was it. I could get into xfce4 from gdm so I knew the issue was with gnome.
    Nonetheless, I went ahead and did yet another reinstall (I always assume I borked a package or hard-to-find-configuration).
    Feeling frustated but being a tad wiser I noticed a weird behavior on ~/.xsessionerror
    [Error initializing libicu support]
    This went on forever until I aborted the command.
    Changing my locale on my rc.conf from pt_BR to en_US fixed gnome-shell. I was once again able to boot into it without a problem. I then, from within gnome, choose portuguese as the default locale (gnome-control-panel, not rc.conf). This fixed the Nautilus issue above and has not stopped gnome-shell from working. I don't know *how* they implement their localization but heck, it works.
    Solved and maybe it might help anyone with the same issue.
    Last edited by OttoRobba (2012-06-22 06:43:37)

    Hmm, since yesterday I'm fumbling around with those settings too. It seems this is not settings related at all (at least not to old package settings), but rather to nautilus' behavior. Just a few minutes ago I've set "view all hidden files" to true in it's settings. It instantly crashed. After a reboot gnome-shell is gone. This is really annoying.
    Also there is no taskbar, no menu bar, no nothing in fallback mode!... Is this even fallback mode?
    Trying to launch gnome-shell from terminal then gives:
    Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.
    with replace option:
    Window manager warning: Log level 16: Another compositing manager is running on screen 0
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: add_win: assertion `info != NULL' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: add_win: assertion `info != NULL' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: add_win: assertion `info != NULL' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: add_win: assertion `info != NULL' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: add_win: assertion `info != NULL' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_compositor_sync_window_geometry: assertion `info' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: add_win: assertion `info != NULL' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_compositor_sync_window_geometry: assertion `info' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: add_win: assertion `info != NULL' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_compositor_sync_window_geometry: assertion `info' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: add_win: assertion `info != NULL' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_compositor_sync_window_geometry: assertion `info' failed
    Window manager warning: Log level 8: add_win: assertion `info != NULL' failed
    Segmentation fault
    Compiz is gone already. What could be causing this issue?

  • [solved] Nautilus freezes when opening "properties"

    Heya,
    unfortunately I can no longer open the "Properties" dialogue when right-clicking on any file in Nautilus. Nautilus just freezes and sometimes Mutter notifies me about the freeze and asks if I want to kill nautilus.
    When opening Nautilus in a shell I don't get any specific error messages...
    Any ideas?
    Last edited by 2beers (2011-07-12 19:40:39)

    Ok, I did some further research:
    The problem is definitely related to tracker and can (temporarily) solved by uninstalling tracker. There are two corresponding bug reports on the bugzillas of Novell and GNOME.
    Although one post on the Novell bugzilla claims
    JFYI, the tracker patch has been included in GNOME:Apps. I think it'll be in
    GNOME:STABLE:3.0 soon.
      the corresponding bug report at the GNOME tracker is still "UNCONFIRMED".
    So hopefully a future update will fix the problem...

  • [solved] Nautilus on Gnome doesn't show preview img of any video file

    Nautilus on Gnome 2.24 doesn't show preview image of any video file. Images are normal. Somebody have this issue too?
    Last edited by alessandro_ufms (2008-10-24 12:29:25)

    Nautilus uses Totem and Gstreamer codecs to show video thumbs. Maybe a reinstall would solve the problem. Actually, I have no idea other then this.
    Last edited by GERGE (2008-10-24 12:22:00)

  • [SOLVED] Nautilus + Samba

    I have a little question about nautilus and samba:
    ive recentelly installed samba following the wiki guide.
    I managed to configure everything and its seems to work. In windows i can see my notebook with its netbios name, but it doesnt happen the same in Nautilus.
    When i check at network from nautilus nothing is shown. neither if entering ie smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx . Am i missing something?
    as you can see nautilus-share is currently installed.
    community/nautilus-share 0.7.2-5 [instalado]
        Share files through Samba with Nautilus
    need suggestions, thanks and sorry for the english, if you dont understand please let me now.
    Last edited by josedb (2010-07-17 03:31:47)

    Ive solved the problem by using this command
    exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session
    instead of exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
    thanks to all.

  • [solved] Nautilus - high power consumption

    Hello,
    Can someone reproduce a very high power consumption with nautilus?
    It keeps running although I have closed all windows and causes an enormous power consumption. This is what powertop reports:
    4.67 W 942.2 ms/s 0.00 Process nautilus --new-window /home/orschiro/Downloads
    I am running nautilus 3.8.2-1.
    Last edited by orschiro (2013-10-09 12:29:32)

    Hung thumbnail process? Can you try disabling thumbnails in Nautilus and see if this happens? Close all Nautilus' processes after making the change.

  • [Solved]Nautilus not working in gnome 3.16

    Hi
    After install gnome 3.16 , i can't running nautilus , and i try to open it from terminal and i got this message
    $ nautilus
    nautilus: symbol lookup error: nautilus: undefined symbol: g_simple_action_set_state_hint
    And thanks in advance for help.
    Last edited by hayderctee (2015-04-03 06:41:35)

    I solved the problem by creating this file
    $ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop
    then , put these lines inside the new file
    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=Files
    Comment=Access and organize files
    Keywords=folder;manager;explore;disk;filesystem;
    Exec=nautilus --new-window %U
    Icon=system-file-manager
    Terminal=false
    Type=Application
    DBusActivatable=true
    StartupNotify=true
    Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Core;FileManager;
    MimeType=inode/directory;application/x-gnome-saved-search;
    X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
    X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=nautilus
    X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
    X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=4.4.8-1
    X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true
    then running this command
    $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
    and the last thing , upgrade my system , after that nautulus running normaly

  • [SOLVED] nautilus-open-terminal without menubar

    How do I get nautilus-open-terminal to open the terminal with no menubar?
    I.e. I prefer 'gnome-terminal --hide-menubar' as suppose to just 'gnome-terminal'
    Anyone?
    Last edited by alphahsk (2007-12-04 17:49:34)

    you can disable the menu in all new windows in the general tab of gnome-terminal's edit profile
    That solved it. Thanks.

  • [SOLVED] Nautilus icons disappeared after update

    Probably after the last update, the icons in nautilus are replaced by some standard dummy icon.
    Last edited by strpeter (2013-06-11 07:32:46)

    pelase search before posting.
    https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1252435

  • Layer transform lag solved by turning off layer thumbnails

    I was looking into why layer transforms was lagging this morning and found some results in the pshop cs6 beta threads, one user suggested hiding the layers panel / swapping with channels. I did that and it was faster, then I thought maybe it was the layer thumbnails that was causing the problem, so I turned off the thumbnails and there was a noticable speedup in dragging grouped layers.
    Before I did this thumbnails were set to crop to layer bounds, so I THINK something is not quite right there.
    -ryder

    Turning off thumbnails works to a point, but if you are moving massive amounts of layers photoshop cs6 will take a long pause. I am guessing the layer stack i'm moving around 60 layers nested (user interface elements)
    The system is a dell M6600 / quadro 4000 / win7 (64-bit) / 32gb of ram, I just updated to the latest nvidia drivers today, made sure of it. (296.70)
    The issue is similar/same as the one discussed in:
    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop_cs6_slow_compared_to_cs5_1 _with_large_files

  • [SOLVED] KDE3: Konqueror and video thumbnails

    Hello everyone!
    I have ArchLinux + KDEmod3 installed with the latest updates and I have a problem with the video thumbnails in Konqueror. By default it shows the first frame of video as preview and it is rather ugly. Most commonly it's just a black screen or something like that. I searched the Internet and found a solution - mplayerthumbs http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.ph … tent=41180. Package from AUR requires kdelibs from KDE4, so I decided to compile it from sources. It has been compiled and installed successfully. But here is the problem: Konqueror still shows previews made from the first frame! Even if I delete contents of ~/.thumbnails, the same previews will be generated. But article on kde-apps.org says that "It catches a random frame from 15% to 70%"
    So how can I fix mplayerthums or is there any other way to get nice video previews in KDE3?
    Thank you.
    Last edited by robert_foster (2008-10-26 08:36:56)

    I think solution from AUR package's page will help:
    To resolve this, you have to edit the file "videopreview.cpp". Add "#include <stdlib.h>" at the top and the pakage works again.

  • [SOLVED] Nautilus not showing metadata audio/video

    When I access to the audio file properties window through its context menu, I have observed that audio file details like bitrate, codecs, etc. are not being shown. Why? Any nautilus plugin missed? No tab is displayed for such info.
    Last edited by toni (2013-11-30 10:40:33)

    City-busz wrote:You have to install totem or gnome-mplayer. Both provide a nautilus plugin that brings this info on the properties window in nautilus.
    Thanks, it worked!

Maybe you are looking for