disable thumbnails? Thunar did not work?

[Scott(0)]

Great work as usual gold_finger.

I came across one point on this topic that's probably worth mentioning.

The tumbler service must be 0.1.27 or later
Linux Lite 2.0 passes this test but others reading this may not be using LL 2.0.

To check your tumbler service version
open a terminal and type

Code:

dpkg -p tumbler | grep Version

Example, in Linux Lite 2.0

Code:

dpkg -p tumbler | grep Version
Version: 0.1.30-1ubuntu1

Example, in Linux Lite 1.8

Code:

dpkg -p tumbler | grep Version
Version: 0.1.24-0ubuntu1

So this solution would not work in Linux Lite 1.8 with the stock tumbler version.

[elliott]

thanks to gold_finger! and also scott for informing those not using 2.0. great work helping a new person, i thank you for taking your time and explaining!

i would not have figured this out and the search engine is also something i plan to use a lot of in the future, so double thanks.

you both have helped me a lot, really amazing work guys.

[gold_finger]

@elliot
Your welcome elliot.  And thanks for asking the question.  I learned something new from it -- didn't know how to do that until looking it up for you.


@Scott(0),
Thanks for adding note on other versions - I wasn't aware of that.  Do you happen to know what procedure is for the earlier versions of tumbler?  (I'm just curious -- don't "need" to know, so don't bother going crazy looking for solution if you don't already know it.)

[Scott(0)]

@gold_finger

Thanks for adding note on other versions - I wasn't aware of that.  Do you happen to know what procedure is for the earlier versions of tumbler?  (I'm just curious -- don't "need" to know, so don't bother going crazy looking for solution if you don't already know it.)

Hi Gold_Finger

I've only read about these options regarding earlier version of tumbler, I haven't tried/tested any of them.

Turning thumbnails(tumbler) off in Thunar
Thunar > Edit > Preferences > Display Tab
Check/Uncheck - The Show Thumbnails setting

Upgrading tumbler
The references I saw on this discussed the option of enabling certain PPAs to upgrade tumbler.

Removing tumbler
I haven't tested if removing tumbler would cause problems someplace else in the system but I did do a simulation removal and it looks like it may work (i.e. not a bunch of dependencies being removed also).

Code:

apt-get -s remove tumbler
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  tumbler
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Remv tumbler [0.1.24-0ubuntu1]

[gold_finger]

Scott(0),
Thanks again.  Haven't tested removing tumbler either, but looks like won't cause any issues from your output above.

[elliott]

i followed the directions and modified the file and the .thumbnails are still generated the same. ill try to repeat the process but so far nothing i tried can disable them.

thanks anyway tho

[gold_finger]

Not sure what might be wrong.  When I tested creating and modifying that file it worked to stop the creation of thumbnails.

Open a terminal and post back the output of this command so we can see what your tumbler config file looks like:

Code:

cat ~/.config/tumbler/tumbler.rc

One note:  when disabling thumbnails with that config file, I don't think that alone will delete any prior existing thumbnails.  You should manually delete them from the folder(s) they are in.  From that point forward, no more thumbnails should be produced.

[elliott]

i had that tile in root /tumbler/, i just edited it in the /.config folder dumb mistake, will test after reboot thanks