Thunar doesn't preview desktop icons

I'm not sure if I am the only one having this problem, but for me Thunar refuses to generate previews for files sitting on my desktop. I can see previews just fine when I open Thunar as a windowed application, but not when it is managing the desktop:
Does anybody have this problem? Is there a solution?
Also, as a side question, is there any way to create a custom thumbnailer for arbitrary file types?
Last edited by Blender (2011-12-22 16:46:55)

Desktop icons are managed by xfdesktop, not thunar; and it's unable to to display thumbnails. There's a patch out there -- I have not tried it yet -- see XFCE bug 4344.

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