User-Agent: Opera/9.21 (X11; Linux i686; U; de) Build Identifier: 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.
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.
> 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.
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.
> 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!