[lubuntu-users] Shouldn't the thumbnail function be switched OFF by default

[Israel]

Hi,
There are a few REALLY simple ways to circumvent this.

1) use imagemagick, because it can thumbnail everything... really.... 
pdf, images, movies.... Here is one for movies

[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=convert
Exec=convert %i[0] -thumbnail %s %o
MimeType=application/mxf;application/ogg;application/ram;application/sdp;application/vnd.apple.mpegurl;application/vnd.ms-asf;application/vnd.ms-wpl;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;application/x-extension-m4a;application/x-extension-mp4;application/x-flash-video;application/x-matroska;application/x-netshow-channel;application/x-ogg;application/x-quicktimeplayer;application/x-shorten;image/vnd.rn-realpix;image/x-pict;misc/ultravox;text/x-google-video-pointer;video/3gp;video/3gpp;video/dv;video/divx;video/fli;video/flv;video/mp2t;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;video/mpeg;video/msvideo;video/ogg;video/quicktime;video/vivo;video/vnd.divx;video/vnd.mpegurl;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/vnd.vivo;video/webm;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;video/x-flic;video/x-flv;video/x-m4v;video/x-matroska;video/x-mpeg;video/x-mpeg2;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-asx;video/x-msvideo;video/x-ms-wm;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-ms-wmx;video/x-ms-wvx;video/x-nsv;video/x-ogm+ogg;video/x-theora+ogg;video/x-totem-stream;audio/x-pn-realaudio;audio/3gpp;audio/ac3;audio/AMR;audio/AMR-WB;audio/basic;audio/flac;audio/midi;audio/mp2;audio/mp4;audio/mpeg;audio/ogg;audio/prs.sid;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-aiff;audio/x-ape;audio/x-flac;audio/x-gsm;audio/x-it;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-matroska;audio/x-mod;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;audio/x-ms-wma;audio/x-musepack;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;audio/x-realaudio;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-s3m;audio/x-sbc;audio/x-speex;audio/x-stm;audio/x-tta;audio/x-wav;audio/x-wavpack;audio/x-vorbis;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-xm;application/x-flac;

save it as /usr/share/thumbnailers/imagemagick-video.thumbnailer
  voila, fast, and easy

2) delete the totem-video-thumbnailer file from the same directory

no more pesky thumbnails.

Of course, you need (from a terminal... you can use these commands)
pkill pcmanfm
and then rerun
pcmanfm --desktop &disown

thumbnails are stored in
~/.thumbnails/{normal,large}
which (if it is unclear) means
~/.thumbnails/normal/
~/.thumbnails/large/

Hope this helps.


On 08/23/2016 04:21 PM, Mark F wrote:
> Would it be possible for Lubuntu to have 2-3 default configurations 
> users could choose from during install (or, initial boot)?
>
> I like Lubuntu on a relatively robust laptop just because I don't need 
> a lot of eye candy. But, I always find myself wishing it was a little 
> more visually attractive. (I'm looking at Xubuntu right now. But, 
> something about X doesn't grab me. Lubuntu always strikes me as a 
> little more familiar to a Windows user.).
>
> Anyway, to me I (personally) wouldn't want to see Lubuntu default to 
> less visual effects. I'd like more, actually. But, I agree that it's 
> targeted to low-resource machines and it would make more sense to do 
> what you ask.
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:40 PM, <scrooyahoo at riseup.net 
> <mailto:scrooyahoo at riseup.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     I just discovered that pcmanfm makes thumbnails of every little
>     video snippet, and in my case it appears to consume a lot of power
>     on a laptop with an i3 CPU when i opened a folder with video clips
>     that i have made for a tutorial.
>     It worked and worked, and don't even need thumbnails there...
>
>     Now, in a way it sometimes can be cute to have thumbnails, but in
>     comparison of the resources it consumes to make the thumbnails it
>     didn't seem to make sense to have this in an environment that is
>     configured as 'light'.
>
>     Also I wonder where those thumbnails are stored and how this is
>     going to affect this laptop's performance in the log run.
>
>     In short: In my opinion it would make sense to have this feature
>     turned off by default.
>
>     ,
>     WP.
>
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