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Thumbnails for PDF documents not created anymore
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Description Mathias Brodala 2007-07-14 10:53:15 CEST
User-Agent:       Opera/9.21 (X11; Linux i686; U; de)
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Some time ago Thunar stopped creating thumbnails for PDF documents on my system. No errors, no warnings, no message whatsoever.

Since I don’t know what Thunar uses to create those thumbnails, I cannot tell if this is a problem with a libary.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter directory containing PDF documents.


Actual Results:  
Thunar just displays the icon for PDF documents.

Expected Results:  
Thunar should create thumbnails as it did before.
Comment 1 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2007-07-14 11:09:12 CEST
By default, evince-thumbnailer is used (of course, if build with gconf support, another PDF thumbnailer may take over the job). Anyway, since Thunar didn't change, you either uninstalled evince or evince-thumbnailer broke.
Comment 2 Mathias Brodala 2007-07-14 11:13:42 CEST
> By default, evince-thumbnailer is used (of course, if build with gconf support,
> another PDF thumbnailer may take over the job). Anyway, since Thunar didn't
> change, you either uninstalled evince or evince-thumbnailer broke.

The only thing I did was to replace the GNOME dependend version of Evince with the GTK only version. If I invoke evince-thumbnailer manually, it creates the thumbnail without problems.
Comment 3 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2007-07-14 15:14:04 CEST
Try updating your thumbnailer cache manually with

 /usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1

maybe that helps. Anyway, since that code in Thunar didn't change for nearly over a year now, it's pretty unlikely, that it did before for you, and broke because of Thunar.

Just guessing (tho unlikely): Maybe PDF files get a different MIME-type (because of a shared-mime-info update), and evince-thumbnailer is not registered for this mime type.
Comment 4 Mathias Brodala 2007-07-14 15:37:34 CEST
> Try updating your thumbnailer cache manually with
> 
>  /usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1
> 
> maybe that helps.

Now it does. After I terminated Thunar fully and ran this command, the thumbnails are generated now.

Thank you very much!

Bug #3395

Reported by:
Mathias Brodala
Reported on: 2007-07-14
Last modified on: 2009-07-17

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Jannis Pohlmann
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