Is there a way in Thunar (within XFCE) to disable displaying of Video thumbnails only and still allow Picture thumbnails?
I found this thread:
Show me only picture thumbnails
But that is for Nautilus and I cannot find Thunar in that list anywhere. Or preferrably only remote videos, Nautilus used to only thumbnail local videos not remote. So if disabling for only remote is possible that would be better.
Best Answer
There is also now an officially recommended way to manage which thumbnails are generated in
Thunar
bytumbler
, the Xfce thumbnailing service. Using the method described below means nothing will need to be uninstalled from thegstreamer
set of packages, and all other thumbnails (apart from video) will be generated.However, it is important to note that this is only possible if you have
tumbler
0.1.27, although this will be at least the version in Raring (13.04). If you are on Xubuntu 12.10, you only need to enable the Xfce 4.12 ppa to get the latest version oftumbler
.On the Xfce announce mailing lists for January 2013, it was noted that, regarding
tumbler
0.1.27,How to enable and disable various plugins is explained on the Xfce official page, but briefly here's how it works. As noted in the explanation, if you want to customise the tumbler rc file, you can make a
tumbler
folder in your user-specific configuration folder and then copytumbler.rc
from/etc/xdg/tumbler
to that folder:Now, edit the file with your preferred text editor, e.g.
and you will see something like this sample rc file, which has sections for video, image and other thumbnailer plugins.
As an example, you could find the section
Video Thumbnailers
in the file above and setDisabled=true
in the sections for theffmpegthumbnailer
and thegstreamer
plugins. Using this method you do not have to removegstreamer0.10-plugins
to stop video thumbnails being shown.Excerpt from the
Video Thumbnailers
section oftumbler.rc
:If at some later point you find that you do not want to entirely disable the video plugins, you could instead use
Disabled=false
to re-enable them and set a value for theMaxFileSize
, so that only files up to a certain size were shown. This would solve problems with high memory usage when thumbnails for very large files are being generated.Note: after making any changes to
tumbler.rc
, it is crucial that you log out and log in again. Video thumbnailing for those two plugins, for example, would not be disabled until you logged in again.Remember, this will only work if you have
tumbler 0.1.27
or a later version installed.