Showing thumbnails for images and videos (SOLVED)

[HarveyH]

BookwormPup64 does everything I want except show thumbnail images for images and videos. How can I add that function?

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi:

For sure, there could be a method to use Rox with icons for images, videos... but my recomendation... install THUNAR as file manager. Fast, Simple and with a lot of possibilities.

F96CE_XFCE_FUSILLI has it by default, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xtW2YjH4Ro , but I think u can install it without problems in BWP64 using ppm

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My Thunar:

[bigpup]

Rox file manager window.

right click in an open area.
From right click menu.
Select display ->Show Thumbnails
This will work for images thumbnails.

For videos and to make it more of a saved setting.

Right click in open area of Rox window.
Select options ->Thumbnails
Make changes here.

For video thumbnails there most likely will be added software needed.
It will tell you what to add.

Video thumbnails is not usually in Puppy Linux, because of the higher demand to use it.

[HarveyH]

F96CE_XFCE_FUSILLI has it by default, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xtW2YjH4Ro , but I think u can install it without problems in BWP64 using ppm

Thank. I'll try that. Just to see, I DLed that puppy and booted. IT SURE IS FANCY AND PRETTY! Somebody please make BookwormPup64 that pretty. Yes, Thunar does what I want. I'll try to install it in BWP64 when I'm not so tired.

Why don't I use F96CE_XFCE_FUSILLI? Well, it's too old. The software I want to run in Linux, FirestormPBR, wants a newer verson of the GLIBC library and I couldn't find it in the PPM. Damn. That is a pretty pretty puppy. I just may have to run two puppies; one for Firestorm and the other for everything else.

[HarveyH]

Installed Thunar and no joy. There isn't an option anywhere for thumbnails; just icons and the icons are little filmstrips. I'll try that Rox thing later today.

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi @HarveyH :

I'm not at home with my puppy computer, so It is possible I made some error when answering you, but I don't know if you "check the obvious": in Thunar's Edit/Preferences, yes, the [x] Show thumbnails is turned on.

If u wanna try, there is another program I use a lot, it is called PCMANFM and it is so good that we included it as default file manager in F96CE_XFCE_FUSILLI.

Give it a try, it is possible it has what you want,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMan_File_Manager

Have a nice day.- cheers

[fredx181]

@HarveyH

Installed Thunar and no joy. There isn't an option anywhere for thumbnails; just icons and the icons are little filmstrips. I'll try that Rox thing later today.

Thunar needs the package "tumbler" installed to show thumbnails.
And you may need to change in the Thunar preferences like this:

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Video thumbnails showing is perhaps problematic though.
edit; oh, just found out later, for showing video thumbnails, install "ffmpegthumbnailer"
So, in BookwormPup, in terminal: apt install tumbler ffmpegthumbnailer

[geo_c]

Installed Thunar and no joy. There isn't an option anywhere for thumbnails; just icons and the icons are little filmstrips. I'll try that Rox thing later today.

If you want to view thumbnails of pdf's, images, videos, etc... There is a solution, but you may not like it because it's a terminal file manager but I use it all the time. It's especially good for previewing scripts and doing edits using micro. But it has a bit of a learning curve using vi like bindings which are very extensive and powerful, also using shell commands. It loads these previews very fast.

It's called:

ranger

It's usually available in most repos.

It has to have a few other things installed and the config files tweaked (usually just uncommenting a few lines) to get all the previews working. But they aren't massive programs, they are CLI programs like, w3m, w3m-img, ffmpeg, ffmpegthumbnailer, pdftoppm (found in poppler utilities). It will also do spreadsheets, docx, and epub thumbnails, though I don't have those configured.

[HarveyH]

Even after doing apt install thunar tumbler ffmpegthumbnailer there is *still* no thumbnails option. Even with thumbails set to "always", the only viewing choices in Thunar are list icons and compact.

However, apt install pcmanfm tumbler ffmpegthumbnailer did the job quite nicely. Those nasty filmstrip icons are now pretty little pictures of the videos. Whoo hoo

Thank you for the help.
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Oh yeah, I changed the default file manager to pcmanfm, but when I clicked on the drive partition icons, It always showed me "root", so I put the default back to rox. Oh well. It's not that big a problem to manually run pcmanfm when I want to see thumbnails.

@geo_c , ranger looks like a cool tool. I'll keep it in mind for some day.

[geo_c]

@geo_c , ranger looks like a cool tool. I'll keep it in mind for some day.

ranger is the bomb, pretty unique and powerful file manager.

But I have pcmanfm on just about every OS also. So I'll do the tweaks to that one to get the previews going in it.

I rarely use just one file manager in a session. I have to have Xfe, it does just about everything well. But I still bounce between Xfe, ranger, pcmanfm, rox, thunar, and mc. They all have their selling points. Though I would put thunar on the bottom of that list.

Konqueror for a KDE desktop is looking pretty nice. I've been dabblling with that in @Sofiya's KLV-Plasma.

[rockedge]

@geo_c started using Ranger and so far I am liking it. Very responsive.