What do I have to do to get thumbnails?

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I get thumbnails only sporadically… sometimes only after I’ve opened an image. Why is this not consistent? What can I do to always get thumbnails?

I have the thumbnail setting at the default “this device only”.

(Also, side question, why is there not slider to change the thumbnail size on files?)

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What distro are you using? This is caused by not having thumbnailers installed

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You need to click the dropdown icon on top right (next to close button

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I’m using Nobara. I noticed that in the Files app, there’s an icon next to the search icon which apparently should no be there (looks like a crosshair, but it’s a part of several distros I’ve seen) so I’ll ask if they can do anything about these issues, but I think they get it unmodified from Fedora (which might have modified it).

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Can you try sudo dnf install glycin-thumbnailer ?

Also, can you send a screenshot of how it looks like?

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Thank you, that seems to have fixed it!

Here’s the icon in question (on a different distribution compared to Nobara, but it’s the same there):

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Huh, i actually dont know what the button does. Normal Files do not have it and Fedora doesnt modify it.

As for changing icon size, you can use either + or -, when im gonna be on my lappy im gonna send a screenshot of the GUI

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Here’s the screenshot:

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Thanks, I forgot to mention that I found that (although those buttons are weirdly small, even though I use display scaling).

Also, this was the patch which introduced that weird button, which is apparently obsolete now and that’s why it doesn’t work.